Lisa Kudrow defended the way the show came out because its creators, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, were both white creators.
I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college," she told The Daily Beast.
That means, as far as Kudrow is concerned, "They have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of color."
At the same time, Kudrow does acknowledge that there was a lack of representation, but her concern is more about the lack of mentoring for minority creators.
I think at that time, the big problem that I was seeing was, ‘Where's the apprenticeship?'" she said.
Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy," Kauffman said then. "It's painful looking at yourself in the mirror.
Part of that work included a $4 million donation to the aforementioned Brandeis University in Boston.