A 'SIMPLE' RACIST?: There's a fairly noxious little op-ed in the New York Post today by a Mr. Mark Goldblatt. Watching the premiere of "The Simple Life," the first thing Goldblatt apparently noticed was that, as the daughter of Lionel Richie, co-star Nicole Richie (called "Ritchie" in the piece) is half black, and thus must've been a beneficiary of affirmative action. Which is unfair, seeing as how she's rich and all...
Now leave aside that Nicole Richie is hardly representative of the African-American experience. I don't know what's more pathetic- that the first thing Goldblatt thought of when seeing a black person on TV was her affirmative action status, or that of all the many, many things about "The Simple Life" that are reprehensible, that's the one he chose to write about.