Rick and Morty is a 2013 animated sci-fi comedy series created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. The show follows the misadventures of Rick Sanchez, a genius but reckless alcoholic scientist, and his good-hearted but easily influenced grandson, Morty Smith. Blending interdimensional travel, dystopian satire, and absurdist humor, Rick and Morty explores deep philosophical questions…
We should remember that the pictures we are looking at, these Ur-images of blacks, are a testament to the failure of the imagination (and often of empathy, too, and tell us nothing about black people but everything about what white audiences approved and felt comfortable with in pop culture until the 1950s.
