Chris Rock summarized the state of racial affairs with this not-so-presumptuous postulate: If you're not black, you probably aren't wishing you were."Ain't one of y'all that would trade places with me. And I'm rich!"This isn't all hyperbole. I think there are only two people in the world who believe their lives would be easier if they were black ? them being Vanilla Ice and Jason Williams of the Miami Heat.But, just for the sake of curiosity, let's ask an entirely different question:How many of you would like to be a 20-something Caucasian, effortlessly affluent, female celebrity?Imagine that we propose this question to the 6.6 billion people who inhabit the world. Sadly, almost half lives in extreme poverty (this is true), and I think it's safe to assume that most of these people would enjoy being ridiculously rich. This safely puts the number of "people who'd say 'yes'" at about 3.3 billion.I'd also guess that only 5 percent of all males would concede to a sex change, so we can knock the figure down to roughly 1.5 billion.Of course, this number only accounts for people living in poverty. I'd imagine that a lot of people NOT living in poverty would also say yes. So, at the end of the day, we can say that more than 1.5 billion people would like to swap places with Lindsay Lohan. This is considerably more than the number of people who think they'd land on easy street if they were black(two)But 2007 threw a wrench into the whole equation. It turned out to be an apocalyptic year for the hyper-privileged socialite.Paris landed in the slammer. Lindsay went to rehab. Nicole battled health problems. Britney ran over things with her SUV. And Ashley still kept getting mistaken for Mary-Kate, and vice versa.It really was an amazing phenomena. I've never seen a category of people hit the bottom with such force, and with such synchronized timing.I don't think this significantly reduced the number of people who want to be "It Girls," but I'm sure it caused a lot more second-guessing.