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Robeson Taj Frazier was uneasy when he started seeing ads for Amazon s Them, about a Black family in the 1950s being terrorized by hostile white neighbors and supernatural forces.
The USC professor, who is the director of the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at USC s Annenberg School of Communication, feared that the drama would contain disturbing images of violence and brutality toward Black people, echoing scenes in HBO s Watchmen and Lovecraft Country and other recent projects that mashed up the troubled history of racial turmoil in America with genre elements.
His concerns were underscored when a social media uproar erupted soon after the show s premiere earlier this month. Numerous Black viewers were outraged over its depictions of vicious racist violence, including the murder of a Black infant while his mother is being raped and a scene showing a Black couple being blinded with hot pokers and then burned to death.