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Gal Gadot made the internet cringe months ago with her “Imagine” video, and just when we’d all forgotten about it, more celebrities teamed up for a video that’s just as embarrassing (though for a slightly better cause). Yesterday (June 11), the NAACP released a clip of white celebrities acknowledging their privilege and taking responsibility for racist actions they’ve committed in the past. While the video was intended as serious and the launch of an otherwise worthy campaign, it got roasted online; and today, the cast of Dear White People chipped in with their own parody of the “I Take Responsibility” campaign.
White stars from the Netflix series openly mocked the video, which featured somber music and was filmed in black and white. The actors did their best impressions of many of the celebrities in the “I Take Responsibility” campaign, furrowing their brows and placing their hands on their hearts as they spoke.
Caitlin Carver, Sheridan Pierce, John Patrick Amedori and Wyatt Nash all resurrected their Dear White People characters for the clip and imagined how they would respond to the situation for their parody, called Dear Us People.
While a piano played in the background, the actors gave heavy sighs and locked eyes with the camera to begin their faux-sincere apologies.
“I take responsibility for being white, and pretty and desirable to men of all races,” said Carver, who plays Muffy Tuttle. “For not posting the black square soon enough, but for leaving it up far too long.”
“I take responsibility for discussing my love of cocoa butter at inopportune moments,” said Pierce, who plays Abigail in the series. “For always bringing up the show Insecure with my Black friends. I’m also taking responsibility for calling them my Black friends.”
The statements from the Dear White People actors directly borrowed from the video posted by the NAACP, where celebrities like Sarah Paulson, Aaron Paul and Justin Theroux all proclaim, “I take responsibility.”
They then listed the actions they’re taking responsibility for, with Theroux saying, “every not so funny joke, every unfair stereotype.”
“I will not turn a blind eye,” Paulson says. The celebrities close out the video by promising to “stand against hate.”
Dear White People follows a group of Black students at the prestigious, mostly-white Winchester University, and uses humor to tackle the issues that the students face with identity, activism, politics and race. The series also stars Logan Browning, Antoinette Robertson, Brandon P. Bell, Ashley Blaine Featherson and DeRon Horton.
