{"id":49597,"date":"2021-03-15T00:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T07:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=49597"},"modified":"2021-03-15T00:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T07:49:31","slug":"gone-with-designing-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/03\/15\/gone-with-designing-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone with Designing Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest victim of political correctness is <strong>Chris Harrison<\/strong>. &nbsp;Here\u2019s a brief recap.&nbsp; Harrison was a guest on the podcast of a former <strong><em>Bachelorette<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Rachel Lindsay <\/strong>(a woman of color).&nbsp; Rachel showed a photo of a current contestant, <strong>Rachael Kirkconnell <\/strong>(a woman devoid of color) attending a \u201cplantation-themed fraternity formal\u201d in 2018.&nbsp; Black Rachel accused White Rachael of being racially insensitive, and wanted Harrison\u2019s take.&nbsp; His first mistake was going on Black Rachel\u2019s podcast.&nbsp; His second was expressing an opinion.&nbsp; \u201cWell, Rachel, is it a good look in 2018?&nbsp; Or is it not a good look in 2021?&nbsp; Because there\u2019s a big difference.\u201d&nbsp; Black Rachel countered, \u201cIt\u2019s not a good look ever.&nbsp; If I went to that party, what would I represent?\u201d&nbsp; Chris compounded his problems by doing an apology interview with <strong>Michael Strahan <\/strong>on <strong><em>Good Morning America<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I\u2019ve seen more relaxed hostage videos!&nbsp; Shortly thereafter, it was announced that Harrison would not host the upcoming season of <em>The Bachelorette<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Let me take you back to 1993 and a little sitcom called <strong><em>Designing Women<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a show set in Atlanta about a design firm owned by four white ladies and their black delivery man (who eventually became a partner).&nbsp; The last episode of the series was called \u201cGone with the Whim\u201d.&nbsp; The team was hired to redecorate an old Southern mansion, reminiscent of Tara.&nbsp; Each member of the cast imagines what it would have been like to live during the antebellum era.&nbsp; While the ladies wax rhapsodically, Anthony states that his image of Tara and Scarlett O\u2019Hara is not like theirs.&nbsp; In his fantasy, Scarlett is played by the dreamy <strong>Sheryl Lee Ralph<\/strong>, while <strong>Jan Hooks <\/strong>is a priggish Prissy.&nbsp; In <strong>Alice Ghostley<\/strong>\u2019s version, Anthony is her Rhett Butler.&nbsp; Before they go off together, he reminds her that it is 1865 \u2013 he\u2019s black, she\u2019s white and people will talk.&nbsp; Bernice responds, \u201cFrankly, my dear \u2013 I don\u2019t give a damn\u201d.&nbsp; Anthony scoops her up in his arms and carries her up the stairs.&nbsp; The final words of the entire series are Bernice singing, \u201cBlack man\u201d.&nbsp; Would that make it on the air today?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; Is it funny?&nbsp; Decide for yourself \u2013 the clip is on <strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong>.&nbsp; But, whatever you do, don\u2019t ask Chris Harrison what he thinks.&nbsp; He\u2019s got enough problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest victim of political correctness is Chris Harrison. &nbsp;Here\u2019s a brief recap.&nbsp; Harrison was a guest on the podcast of a former Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay (a woman of color).&nbsp; Rachel showed a photo of a current contestant, Rachael Kirkconnell (a woman devoid of color) attending a \u201cplantation-themed fraternity formal\u201d in 2018.&nbsp; Black Rachel accused<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49600,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49597\/revisions\/49600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}