This work explores the language of television, but also the nature of politics in the United States: a binary structure that repeats itself election after election, leading to a state of predictability and numbness.
A color bar is a strip on a screen display showing a range of colors, used to ensure that all colors are displayed correctly. It is used for testing and calibrating screens. In this case the colors follow a specific color spectrum of blues and reds, referring to the Democratic and Republican parties.
Color bar is also a social system in which Black and other nonwhite people are denied access to the same rights, opportunities, and facilities as white people. In both cases, the binary presence is clear, steady, and repetitive.

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