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Last modified on Wed 21 Apr 2021 09.53 EDT There is an inherent difficulty in producing thoughtful art that comments sensitively on racial violence, dishing up that viscous bigotry as entertainment. In a 2020 Art in America essay, the academic Zoé Samudzi wrote: “Where Blackness is en vogue and atrocity images are a hot commodity, it becomes difficult to produce a commentary or satire that does not read almost identically to the quotidian flows of violence.” The art is, in essence, a continuation of the violence it seeks to represent. But the Amazon Studios series Them has no tim...