If it were made today there would have been.
Blacks are about 13% of the American population. One sixth is about 17%.
It seems only logical one of them would have been black. So why not?
Not every white person has a black friend. It's just the way it is.
shareFor the same reason Craig and DayDay didn't have a white hombre.
shareWho cares.
Get out of here with your identity politics garbage.
Uh, you're the one trying to make this political. I'm just noting the difference between 2022 and 30 years ago.
shareIf you think every show that has six main characters must have a minority as a main character or else something is "wrong" or "out of place" then that just shows how badly your thinking is warped and you are the type just looking for something to upset you.
shareYou have a problem with reading comprehension. I'm fine with 6 white friends. But I'm saying if this show was made today one of the six would have been black. I'm not endorsing that. I'm not against it. It's just the times in which we live.
shareGiven the quirkiness of the group I would think an Asian friend would fit the dynamic better.
shareThe all white crowd scenes in restaurants, sidewalks, coworkers, etc. in diverse New York City were completely unrealistic. Seinfeld showed realistic diversity and was funnier.
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAnvn25URvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S517s7E4wk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVpDowulBgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISCrrkSg8Zw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3IV7ZJkmj0
AS CHANDLER WOULD SAY....COULD YOU BE ANY MORE WRONG?!
Tokenism isn't diversity. The creator apologized about the lack of diversity:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/friends-creators-4m-apology-for-lack-of-diversity/
Seinfeld had old, middle-aged, young adults and children, skinny and obese, people in wheelchairs, using canes, deaf, blind, bald and hairy, gay and straight, and plenty of ethnic and racial diversity with and without speaking roles. They also addressed various bigotry in a bold and realistic way.
Friends had an Italian stereotype. Tsk, tsk!
At least, Seinfeld had an overweight, bald guy who was realistically neurotic. Real people represented.
NO...NOT TOKENISM...VISIBLE DIVERSITY IN CROWDS AND AMONGST EXTRAS...PERHAPS NOT ENOUGH TO REFLECT REALITY...BUT IT IS THERE NONTHELESS...ALSO...SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT SEINFELD...NOBODY SAID ANYTHING ABOUT SEINFELD BUT YOU.🙂
share"PERHAPS NOT ENOUGH TO REFLECT REALITY"
That's called Tokenism.
Never! Seinfeld is the better show.
NO...THAT'S CALLED TOKENISM NOW...MODERN DAY...BY BUTTDIGGERS LIKE YOURSELF...THE 90'S WERE A WHILE AGO AND IT WAS UNCOMMON TO FIND A REALITY BASED DIVERSITY ON TELEVISION...BUT FRIENDS IS NO MORE GUILTY THAN ANY OTHER SHOW OF THE ERA...IN FACT...AFTER SCRUBBING THROUGH A FEW EPISODES BASED ON YOUR POST...FRIENDS HAVE A DECENT AMOUNT OF BACKGROUND DIVERSITY...SEINFELD IS A BETTER SHOW...BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT HERE.
shareSeinfeld had diversity. Same era.
"BACKGROUND DIVERSITY"
Nope. Seinfeld had diversified characters with speaking roles interacting with the group.
The creator apologized about the lack of diversity:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/friends-creators-4m-apology-for-lack-of-diversity/
She says you're wrong.
The episode names would have been hilarious.
The One Where Ross Gets Carjacked
The One Where Joeys Tv Gets Stolen
The One Where Black Friend Gets Beaten by Bigots
The One Where Black Friend Is Falsely Arrested After Meeting a Karen
The One Where Black Friend Is Not Promoted Because of Racism
The One Where Black Friend Is Denied An Apartment Because of Racist Landlord
The One Where Insensitive White Friends Do Micro-Aggressions Against Black Friend And Tell Him He's Being Too Sensitive When He Complains
White people have the most in common with other white people and that's who they'd likely be friends with. The creators write from the experiences that they live. Racist liberals seem too stupid understand that.
shareyes there would be tokens if made today. but I thinks it makes sense for races to have their own show rather than tokens.
like Fresh Prinse of Bell Air. Great shows, all blacks.
Friends. All whites.
I believes white and black in americas prefer to be among there owns.
forcing whites to have black in everythings they make create problems for boths race as black and white hate each other in americas.