It’s heart may be in the right place and it is mostly harmless but I can only take so much of the cloying sweetness of Touched By An Angel and the episode ‘Black Like Monica’ pulled out all the stops with abandon. And just in case we were too stupid to get the message along comes the real Rosa Parks in a cameo appearance as herself.
Monica (Roma Downey) wakes up to find she has become black and human: a pretty bad deal for an angel who finds herself being chased by racist murderers. She fails the test (does God test Angels?) by praying to be made white again (me, I’d have prayed for a thunderbolt but I guess it’s not that sort of a show) but Tess tells Monica that God will forgive her (it is that sort of show) – I dont recall what He said about the racist murderers.
The black makeup was a less serious attempt at credibility than Monica’s aged look in the episode ‘Missing in Action’. I understand that Ken Johnson was makeup department head and Roma’s personal makeup artist.