CNN’s Don Lemon, fed up with inaction from celebrities on the George Floyd protests, opined on May 30: “What about Hollywood? Strangely quiet. Why aren’t they helping these young people? These young people are out there standing on a platform on the edge of an abyss by themselves.”

You have to have a particularly warped view of political change and power to think that, in a moment of such great pain and angst, there was a hunger for more A-list celebrities to speak up.