It’s so telling when someone reads an article like this one — an analysis of what has been and continues to be a blind fascination with racially motivated “humor" — and chooses to turn the argument on its head by saying that racism isn’t an American problem, that things are better today, that racism is irrelevant (an actual phrase I read by an especially racist and moronic commenter here) and indulge in the reliable misappropriated ideas from whataboutism. It is infuriating and very insulting to the author and the black community and, at the same time, a great argument to prove the author’s point to begin with.

From where I see it, America has been and continues to be racist and it’s not some people or some minor groups. It’s huge cities and towns and villages and the government (Drumpf, not Biden) which instigates racist rhetoric and allows their own people to terrorise the centre of power. So it does make a difference when someone denounces an attempt to understand or highlight this racism in a written text because it drives the point home that black identity is still cause for much negativity and dismissal and regardless of how many episodes from tone deaf series are pulled, and how many cartoons vilified, people don’t seem to accept this very real and rampant problem that envelops the country.