A reader writes:
At first, I figured that the best thing for Tina Fey to do was to kill Tracy Morgan's character and base their last season around trying to save TGS without Tracy Jordan. I really wasn’t willing to forgive on this one, and I did expect the pro forma apologies. But a couple things have changed my mind and left me willing to forgive. Number one, he’s not going to rehab. He’s actually taken up GLAAD’s challenge and will be meeting with gay kids who have been victims of abuse. He’s actually going before the people he offended to apologize, rather than just releasing a ghostwritten apology from a thousand miles away.
Number two, the revelation about how his father died of AIDS tells me he’s probably actually sincere.
Ryan White’s experience of homophobia and violence is well documented, and at the time Morgan’s father died, he would have experienced the same or worse. I think that when Morgan did his act, he probably didn’t connect the two, but the uproar that has ensued has probably helped him recognize the connection. While most of the time, you know that the celebrity is unrepentant and making an apology in the hopes of salvaging their career, I think for once a celebrity has actually had an uproar change his mind and made a sincere apology that will be followed up with actual acts of contrition.
(Screenshot via Gabe, who offers a lengthy dissent to Louis C.K.)
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