#this is not unique to twentieth century media ofc but boy howdy is the whiplash real in 60s and 70s tv

[leonardcohenofficial]

it never fails to amaze me how sixties and seventies media (especially television) often made genuine strides in terms of examining race and adding nuance to the ways in which it's explored on screen, and then IMMEDIATELY fucked it up thirty five seconds later in the literal same episode