Oprah Producing Hilarious Racial Film
Oprah thinks the struggle for a white person to form a relationship with a black person is hysterical! (She can't fathom it, because all races and species love Oprah equally.) The talk show host's Harpo Films has acquired the movie rights to Will You Be My Black Friend, a year-old GQ article about a white guy trying to make a black friend, and is somehow making it a "star vehicle" for Chris Rock even though it's about a white person. The Daily Variety says:
The article, a humorous account by senior correspondent Devin Friedman about his clumsy attempt to make friends with people of color, will be developed as a star vehicle for Chris Rock.Following a cocktail party epiphany that his entire social circle is the same color as he, the white writer made an unabashed attempt to make black friends, down to soliciting prospective pals in a Craigslist ad. The journo discovers that race aside, it is very difficult to make meaningful friends later in life.
Come on. We already have last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Black People Love Us, that episode of Seinfeld where George takes a black exterminator out to dinner, and Hitch. Can't we move on to white people befriending other races? Inuits? How about Inuits? No one is touching Inuits. Let's see a white person try to befriend an Inuit. As a whitey, I wouldn't even know where to start. Alaska?