It’s an approach that’s simultaneously an improvement over the countless lily-white shows that pretend that people of color, and their problems, simply don’t exist; it’s also an approach fraught with its own set of issues. 30 Rock and Kimmy Schmidt’s satire shouldn’t be accepted at face value because Fey made the effort, nor can they be dismissed as the work of yet another white creator blind to her own privilege. They’re messy, complicated, and inevitably provocative — all the hallmarks of a lasting comic legacy, if not a clear-cut one.