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Black Twitter Reminds David Schwimmer About The Existence Of ‘Living Single’ After He Suggests An All-Black Or All-Asian Reboot Of ‘Friends’

<p>You can always count on Black Twitter to get their point across when it comes to making a statement&comma; and Tuesday was no different as they went in and stuck up for &&num;8220&semi;Living Single&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a new interview with <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theguardian&period;com&sol;culture&sol;2020&sol;jan&sol;27&sol;david-schwimmer-im-very-aware-of-my-privilege-as-a-heterosexual-white-male">The Guardian<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; David Schwimmer&comma; who starred as Ross on the hit sitcom &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Friends&comma;” talked about the success of the show and how the impact of the show has aged over the years&period; During the interview&comma; it was mentioned that the show was a part of the pre-&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;woke” era when it comes to the topic of race&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>David responded and said that he had always pushed for more diversity back in the day&period; He said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends&period; But I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of color&period; One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman&comma; and later I dated African American women&period; That was a very conscious push on my part&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now ya’ll know Twitter pulled out the receipts to remind David that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Friends” was actually an all-white version of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Living Single&comma;” which was an all-black cast&period; Basically reminding him that the concept <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;living-single-made-its-television-debut-25-years-ago-today&sol;">already<&sol;a><&sol;em> existed before &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Friends” came along in 1994&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of the many people to remind David was Erika Alexander&comma; who starred as Maxine Shaw on &&num;8220&semi;Living Single&period;&&num;8221&semi; She took to Twitter and said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;<span class&equals;"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Hey <&sol;span><span class&equals;"r-18u37iz">&commat;DavidSchwimmer <&sol;span><span class&equals;"r-18u37iz">&commat;FriendsTV<&sol;span><span class&equals;"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> &&num;8211&semi; r u seriously telling me you’ve never heard of <&sol;span><span class&equals;"r-18u37iz">&num;LivingSingle<&sol;span><span class&equals;"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">&quest; We invented the template&excl; Yr welcome bro&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1222273521977458688" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In another tweet&comma; she shared a link to an article where she compared the success of &&num;8220&semi;Living Single&&num;8221&semi; to &&num;8220&semi;Friends&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1222275181156032512" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Check out what people are saying below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1222290449009868802" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1222362933994434561" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1222310621825437696" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1222289019905757184" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1222314415095255041" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1222290750957813761" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1222288811939389441" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1222293548030136320" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roommates&comma; 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