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Abbott Elementary Recap: Charity Case
Abbott Elementary pokes fun at white institutions using diversity as a marketing tactic when the school tours the new golf course.
As the staff and students file into the facility, Janine tries her hardest to stay on the defense in case “there’s a Get Out situation.” Miles, the lawyer who serves as the liaison between the course and Abbott, shows them around, pointing out the gracious views of what used to be the ancestral land of the Lenape people, whom they “hope are doing very well.” Everything is top of the line, and there’s even a framed picture of Charlie Sifford, the first Black man to play on the PGA Tour. This photograph should have been the first hint that there might be an ulterior motive to Abbott’s appearance at the course (Miles saying they love celebrating the “rich and diverse history of the game” is code for “I know we have a race problem”), but Janine is temporarily distracted by the impeccably delicious Arnold Palmers. He fails this test, paralyzed by his “options,” and when the next waiter offers him a sea urchin, he literally runs away, proclaiming that he’s a “freak.” Barbara finds him hiding from all the exotic food and hands him what he believes is a serving of plain buttered noodles, which he immediately scarfs down.
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