Color Adjustment

Viewed March 24, 2022. Riggs convincingly portrays the complexity of positive representation — Diahann Carroll points out that Amos and Andy were funny, Henry Louis Gates says that Bill Cosby’s I Spy character was his hero, but they fall short in a media landscape so narrow that it only has room for one type of Black character at any given time. A great Riggs-ian touch: in images of picturesque suburban living rooms, the televisions are overlaid with the programs that serve as Riggs’ subjects.

Racism is embarrassing, sorry for the big hot take. This is an important work/subject, always in disbelief how worked up people would get over someone's race. Glad a bunch of the racists shown in the American south attacking black people probably died of covid in their stupid old folks home alone. I miss when it wasnt weird to watch the Cosby Show.

Marlon Riggs is the man