The arson, looting and rioting have died down, but we’re still a long way from cultural normalcy in the US of A. (That A is …
The arson, looting and rioting have died down, but we’re 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. 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 “plantation”? Since Reynolds and Lively are not 175 years old, and since “plantation” 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. “It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,” Reynolds,43, said in an interview with Fast Company. Sorry to whom? He added that he and Blake had a do-over wedding a few years later to make up for their transgression and said, “A giant f–king mistake like that can either cause you to shut down or it can reframe things and move you into action.” He vowed a lifelong commitment to “repatterning and challenging lifelong social conditioning.
