Apologists showing up in huge numbers! It's just the way film works, they cry. Nobody's fault! Why then did film manufacturers advertise 'realistic skin tones'

Apologists showing up in huge numbers! It's just the way film works, they cry. Nobody's fault! Why then did film manufacturers advertise 'realistic skin tones' for a century. And never do anything whatsoever about how that was false for a significant fraction of humanity? That, of course, is 'just how it works' too. That's the point of the article - that it's easy to ignore black people because {reasons}. It was not inconceivable that somebody could make film that worked for all. Ignoring that critical idea shows a willing suspension of rationality in the service of a really obviously biased situation. But no, continue apologizing for institutional racism, because of course that's how it's supposed to work. Everything for white people since, money.