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“#Celebrities\u2019 gratuitous apologies make Black Lives Matter all about them<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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<img alt=”Ryan Reynolds apologized this week for marrying Blake Lively on a plantation, saying “it’s something we\u2019ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for.”” id=”standard-article-image”  src=”https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds.jpg?quality=90&strip<\/a>=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1″ ><\/img>
\n                Ryan Reynolds apologized this week for marrying Blake Lively on a plantation, saying “it’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for.”<\/span>
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<\/div>\n\n                            <div>\n                    The arson, looting and rioting have died down, but we\u2019re still a long way from cultural normalcy in the US of A. (That A is for antagonism). One strange new feature of the culture is the abject, I-hurl-myself-at-your-feet-and-spit-on-myself apology in which celebrities demand everyone sit up and pay attention while they tell us how sorry they are about some nonsense infraction they committed years ago.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
The Black Lives Matter movement is hotter than any movie star right now, so even white movie stars crave a piece of it. They loudly shout about the racial virtue they possess that no one asked about in the first place. For instance, Ryan Reynolds. Why did he feel the need to apologize this week for having his wedding to Blake Lively on a \u201cplantation\u201d? Since Reynolds and Lively are not 175 years old, and since \u201cplantation\u201d stopped being a thing in 1865, it would be more accurate to say they were married on a Southern field that was once a plantation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something we\u2019ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,\u201d Reynolds, 43, said in an interview with Fast Company. Sorry to whom?<\/em> He added that he and Blake had a do-over wedding a few years later to make up for their transgression and said, \u201cA giant f\u2013king mistake like that can either cause you to shut down or it can reframe things and move you into action.\u201d He vowed a lifelong commitment to \u201crepatterning and challenging lifelong social<\/a> conditioning.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Zoe Saldana apologized for portraying another black woman, Nina Simone, on film.<\/span>Suzanne Tenner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Bro, be sorry about \u201cGreen Lantern,\u201d not your wedding. Barack Obama used to live in a house \u2014 a large, white one \u2014 that was originally built with slave labor. Did he apologize, or marvel at how things have changed for the better? This entire country is built on ground where bad stuff once happened. There was once a slave labor market at 74 Wall Street. Now there\u2019s a 42-story building full of condos there. The people who live there brush their teeth, eat their breakfast, have cocktails and watch Netflix there. Are they supposed to be \u201cdeeply and unreservedly sorry\u201d for things that happened right beneath their feet centuries ago? Come to think of it, the whole country used to be home to indigenous people of color. If Ryan and Blake are upset by the conquest and subjugation associated with a piece of farmland, maybe they should go live in some country that is innocent of these things. Such as, er \u2026\u2002such as \u2026\u2002I don\u2019t know, Antarctica?<\/p>\n