How anyone looks at photography, where light is the key factor in capturing an image, and then posits that technology itself is racist because it has trouble accurately capturing the skin tones of dark-skinned people, is just bonkers to me.

Cameras capture light, and that's it. It's the job of the photographer or cinematographer to ensure that a black actor or model is lit properly under certain conditions.

Not to mention, the photographic process does not begin and end with light hitting film, and the claim that seems to be thrown about by this video that black people existed in color photos only as negative blobs of obscure darkness is just pure lunacy. Go look at any color photos from the time period described, and you'll see perfect photos of dark-skinned people all over the place.

I mean, what are they even trying to say with this? That black people are underrepresented in photography out of a nefarious plot to keep them underexposed, both literally and figuratively? And if they're not saying that, then what are they saying? Black people are harder to take photos of? This is not news! It's logical, common sense!

Furthermore, let me just say again that positing that technology itself can have a racial bias is just pure insanity.