“I truly felt that Ross should date other people, women of all races,” the actor said. The Los Angeles Times quoted co-creator Kauffman as saying that.
It was “difficult and frustrating” at the time that Friends was being singled out for its lack of diversity. However, she has had a change of heart in recent years.
Since then, Kauffman has said that the reason the comedy didn’t succeed in being more inclusive was because she had absorbed institutional racism,
Which she only realized when George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police and the Black Lives Matter movement began in 2020.
It is difficult to acknowledge and accept guilt, according to the co-creator. Looking at oneself in the mirror hurts. I feel ashamed that I was ignorant twenty-five years ago.
