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09/18/2007: ""Best Black Friends" a plague in Hollywood stereotyping"
They're stars who have all played lead characters who experience adventure with the help of their BFF (Best Friend Forever). But in many cases, these BFFs might more accurately be characterized as BBFs - Black Best Friend - played by a black actress whose character's principal function is to support the heroine, often with sass, attitude and a keen insight into relationships and life.
Celluloid BBFs have been featured in The Nanny Diaries, as well as The Devil Wears Prada and Premonition. But BBFs have been even more of an influence in TV series, including The New Adventures of Old Christine, Ghost Whisperer, Alias, Ally McBeal, Felicity, Summerland and Private Practice, the spinoff of Grey's Anatomy premiering this fall.
The BBF syndrome isn't something that Hollywood likes to talk about, even as it continues to be a winking in-joke among blacks in the industry. One black actress said that she and her actress friends
tease one another about forming a support group for characters who had to help out their "woefully helpless white girls."
[ We see the psychology of the liberal: update Step'n'Fetch it to be a nice character, even though the basic role of the black person hasn't changed. Liberalism wants to use civil rights to gain power against more powerful whites, not to help blacks -- multiculturalism fails again. ]
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/movies/5139987.html