E.T was Black and the movie was a dissertation on whitewashed America’s reaction to brown people in their picket fence neighborhoods, from the fear to the wanting to dissect him even though he’s a kid…and how he wasn’t safe( to the viewing audience they until the put him in drag. #sommayallknow. 😬

He also almost died, expressed by what? turning white. Maybe Spielberg read enough Hindu origin mythos to know all their space-faring gods were brown? Lol. If you watch the movie with that lens it’ll ef you up. Disclosure Day even has the long spindle brown fingers creeping back up in the trailer.

The fear of “when the ‘gods come back, they’re not gray or Nordic pink, but brown ..or so black they look blue” is always in the air, whether you want to deal with it there or not.