Is Black America Colorism’s Biggest Accomplice?
14 min readMay 13, 2020
When #BlackAF isn’t nearly Black enough
When Black-ish creator, Kenya Barris premiered his newest series, #BlackAF, on Netflix, my first thought was had Barris finally broken beyond his embarrassingly binary view of Blackness? Perhaps then, I thought, just maybe I should give this #BlackAF thing a chance. I loved Mixed-ish just as much as the next man, but who were we fooling, it…