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‘Friends’ Creator Atones for Sitcom’s Lack of Diversity by Pledging $4 Million to African-American Studies Department
Breitbart ^ | 06.30.2022 | David Ng

Posted on 06/30/2022 6:27:23 AM PDT by Macky Cracklins

If you’re a Hollywood elite facing the wrath of the diversity mob, a cool $4 million judiciously dispersed can buy you a lot of redemption.

Friends creator Marta Kauffman has atoned for the sitcom’s lack of diversity by pledging $4 million to her alma mater, Brandeis University, to establish an endowed professorship in the school’s African and African American studies department.

The result: glowing mainstream media coverage and social media feedback.

In a mea culpa with the Los Angeles Times, Marta Kauffman prostrated herself before the diversity police, saying she is “embarrassed” by the lack of minority characters in Friends.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blacksupremacy; cancelculture; friends; hollywood; obamasfault; woke
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To: Macky Cracklins

They could probably go back and digitally insert meaningless black characters into the original show. Hollyweird is good at propaganda, then just say, “there were always black characters in Friends, here’s the proof. You just don’t remember.”


21 posted on 06/30/2022 6:53:57 AM PDT by euram
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To: Leaning Right
You need at least 97 stars to hit every group, and even then many would be double or tripled up: you are the deaf, polydactyl half American Indian half Asian Indian transsexual.

To many there to be "Friends" so the show would have to be "Distant Acquaintances".

22 posted on 06/30/2022 6:56:33 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: Macky Cracklins

It’s his own money.

If he wants to fritter it away “helping” others to become angry and entitled race hustlers that’s less odious than government spending money for that.


23 posted on 06/30/2022 6:57:18 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Macky Cracklins

“Diversity” is code for “Kill Whitey.”


24 posted on 06/30/2022 7:00:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
The worst show in television history.

What about That's My Mama?

25 posted on 06/30/2022 7:00:48 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: KarlInOhio

Yep, this business of forced diversity would get messy, if they really want to go there.

And as someone else noted, there were some jokes about homosexuality in that show? I never saw the show but don’t know. Anyway, with all this LGBT business nowadays, any such jokes about such people is a crime against humanity nowadays.


26 posted on 06/30/2022 7:02:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Macky Cracklins

White, liberal-leftist guilt in-play...


27 posted on 06/30/2022 7:07:14 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Macky Cracklins

White self hate must be a terrible burden.


28 posted on 06/30/2022 7:08:50 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Macky Cracklins

maybe they did not have black friends? and is Marta worried about the lack of Asian, Hispanic and Arab friends that were missing, too?
No one in a wheelchair? No epileptic fits? None of the kids were autistic? No mixed race babies? Oh, the horror!
Just normal white folks having a life.
Altho it seems Ross dated a black girl and an Asian girl.


29 posted on 06/30/2022 7:14:05 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Hot fun in the summertime! thanks rjo.)
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To: Macky Cracklins

Maybe they can pay for field trips to newark, Oakland, and Chicago south side.


30 posted on 06/30/2022 7:15:48 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: ronniesgal

I only saw about three episodes of the show. Did Ross ever marry Monica?


31 posted on 06/30/2022 7:18:51 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Macky Cracklins

Afrika is a huge country. This is chump change. What a bunch of cheap *** kissers.


32 posted on 06/30/2022 7:20:54 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (First, they stole our elections. Then, they stole our country.)
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To: Macky Cracklins

Whatever happened to just making a donation to the United Negro College Fund?


33 posted on 06/30/2022 7:22:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Macky Cracklins

Maybe that explains why the show was so popular (not with me). They didn’t artificially inject race into every situation, which would’ve driven away many viewers.


34 posted on 06/30/2022 7:25:10 AM PDT by libertylover (Democrats are as determined to kill innocent people as the Nazis.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Fight referee on cruise ship?


35 posted on 06/30/2022 7:29:54 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Clemenza

Monica was his sister, he dated Rachel. I don’t think they tied the knot, though.
I mean, these days he COULD have married Monica.....


36 posted on 06/30/2022 7:32:57 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Hot fun in the summertime! thanks rjo.)
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To: Macky Cracklins
Ms.Kauffman is going to learn the hard way to never apologize to these people.

She has just opened a new can of worms she never dreamed possible.

Didn't all the (white) guys go gaga over the black (on the outside, white on the inside) well spoken, intelligent black "scientist"?

She should be apologizing to Italians for making Joey such a loser.

37 posted on 06/30/2022 7:33:49 AM PDT by lewislynn (The Murdochs might be citizens but they aren't true blue Americans.)
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To: Macky Cracklins

I am thinking she should be embarrassed instead by how awful the show was.


38 posted on 06/30/2022 7:37:34 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Teaching…. African American studies.


39 posted on 06/30/2022 7:37:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Macky Cracklins

Real quandry about how to approach the Wayan bros ‘In Living Color’?


40 posted on 06/30/2022 7:38:58 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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