Jonah: The irony is, if the gender roles were reversed — i.e., the movie featured a black man and a white woman — some NYT columnist would tell us how this feeds into white sexual paranoia that has its origins on the plantation. But then this is the liberal burden. When the rest of us see the possibility for an amusing comedy at a time when racial tolerance never has been greater, and can rejoice in the humor of a black man putting down a white whippersnapper, liberals see black people and think of slavery.