{"id":293368,"date":"2020-06-10T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1160025"},"modified":"2020-06-10T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:44:11","slug":"is-friends-creator-marta-kauffmans-apology-too-late-es-nina-parker-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/is-friends-creator-marta-kauffmans-apology-too-late-es-nina-parker-weighs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Friends Creator Marta Kauffman’s Apology Too Late? E!’s Nina Parker Weighs In"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Too little, too late?<\/p>\n

Friends<\/em> co-creator Marta Kauffman<\/strong> recently apologized<\/a> for the lack of diversity on the long-running sitcom, explaining at the virtual 2020 ATX TV Festival, “I wish I knew then what I know today…We’ve always encouraged people of diversity in our company, but I didn’t do enough.” However, as E! hosts Morgan Stewart<\/a><\/strong>, Nina Parker<\/a><\/strong> and Scott Tweedie<\/a><\/strong> discussed on the latest Daily Pop<\/a><\/em>, the acknowledgment seems to be, as Stewart put it, “a little too late.”<\/p>\n

Parker was in agreement with Stewart, saying, “I mean, Marta, welcome to the rest of the world, child. Like, what is she even talking about?”<\/p>\n

She continued, “I’m sorry, you guys. But like, people have been talking about this since Friends<\/em>‘ inception. The fact that, okay, sure, all white people hanging out together in New York? That happens. But everybody in the street is white?”<\/p>\n

Parker asked Tweedie, who lives in New York, if the city looks “the way Friends<\/em> depicted it,” to which he replied, “It is definitely not like that.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Parker went on to express her frustration, especially since she said Kauffman has “been in this industry” for awhile now.<\/p>\n

“Like, of course this has been something that should’ve been discussed,” she noted. “And in fact, especially in black communities, there were people who specifically boycotted Friends<\/em> and Seinfeld<\/em> because they felt like they weren’t represented on these mainstream shows that were based in cities where it’s prominently people of color.”<\/p>\n

Parker continued, “So, you know, I’m glad people are coming to the party but damnit, I hope you brought me a bottle of wine because it’s so late.”<\/p>\n

Stewart echoed Parker’s sentiment, adding that these conversations about representation in general “have been happening for years and years and years.”<\/p>\n

“And everybody now is just like, ‘Oh my god,'” Stewart said. “And myself included! I don’t want to pretend I’m not a part of that narrative as well. But it really is, like, the party has been going on.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Tweedie pointed out that the entire situation “is a perfect example of the white privilege<\/a> lifestyle.”<\/p>\n

“Because I was watching it when I grew up. I thought it was hilarious. I thought it was a brilliant show,” he explained. “And never did I ever think, ‘What if there’s a black child out there watching this show and going, ‘What sort of world is this?'” <\/p>\n

Parker, however, said “that’s specifically how I felt watching TV in general growing up,” and “the fact that you guys didn’t notice, and it was the first thing I noticed” is something that needs to be a part of the ongoing conversation about race and representation.<\/p>\n

“Not only in TV, but let’s talk about in work spaces. Let’s talk about in social spaces\u2014you know, in going to a restaurant or a bar in Los Angeles,” Parker expressed. “There’s diversity, but sometimes you walk into a place and you like, ‘Nobody else in here looks like me.’ And I think those are conversations<\/a> that we have to have with each other, about how hard it is to feel like you’re a part of a community that does not recognize you.”<\/p>\n

Watch the complete Daily Pop<\/em> discussion in the above clip.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Too little, too late? Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman recently apologized for the lack of diversity on the long-running sitcom, explaining at the virtual 2020 ATX TV Festival, “I wish I knew then what I know today…We’ve always encouraged people of diversity in our company, but I didn’t do enough.” However, as E! hosts Morgan Stewart, Nina Parker and Scott […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-18 11:02:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}