In Dakota Johnson's second crack at hosting SNL after nine years, there was an important theme of appropriation – that is sampling minority culture without context and losing the original meaning of the artifact in the interest of the majority's amusement. We talk about socioeconomic- and race-based othering in Home Movies, black friends and black-up bands with Justin Timberlake's musical performance of Sanctified, and the long history of the Dozens in Roast (a film by Please Don't Destroy).
