I haven't been socially conditioned to not show appreciation for men of other ethnicities, I don't know any white women who feel like that. Where are you getting this from?!
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If I remember correctly
Denzel refuses to do interracial whatever in his movies. You can't simply blame white women.
I apologize if I offended u. But as my profile indicates, I live here in America. And this is the perception of IR and how it's portrayed on TV. In my personal life, I've run across plenty of white girls here who have told me privately that they should not even try to bring a black dude home 'cause it's socially unacceptable. A couple have even outright admitted that their parents are bigots. This is just a part of America's racial history and social conditioning.
As for Denzel, yeah he's one of my favorite actors but he has had to bow to the quiet influence of Hollywood and his black female fanbase. You might be referring to his pairing with Julia Roberts from the early '90s "The Pelican Brief." Somebody may correct me, but I believe in the book or something the two main characters actually developed a relationship while working together. But for the screen adaptation, Denzel decided against it at the time citing the reaction which would come from black american females. America's poor treatment of certain blacks and our families have contributed to the reverse racism attitudes which resinate when IR couples get placed in front of them, particularly bm/ww.
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The reason that most movies don't feature interracial relationships is because interracial relationships form a very small percentage of relationships. Most people are in a relationship with someone of their own ethnicity. So the movies show that accordingly. I don't know why people keep speaking about how white men are controlling it because secretly they are jealous and hate black men, what a load of bullshit. Perhaps some are but the whole conspiracy thing is a bit silly.
Unless half the population mix it up a bit I doubt you'll see more interracial relationships in movies. They are just representing the demographic.
I'm sorry, but I firmly disagree with your reasoning on why IR couples aren't prevalent on TV. With that logic, by numbers alone, a black man would not have been elected president. The point being people in general must approve it, NOT just black people. Whites and every other race and ethnicity as well. And it shouldn't be threatening if you are raised not to fear people who look differently than yourself.
You are correct that most people are with their own, IN REAL LIFE. But if you look closely enough, only whites in movies generally have a significant other. Asians are virtually non-existent unless they are dating someone white or their asian partner is conspicuously absent from the movie. Latinos, native am., others are again underrepresented for their communities and blacks, well...as was said, a black woman would have a better chance of being paired with a white male and a black man would be single or with an non-black ethnic female. Trust me, those pairings generally aren't consistent in real america. Which brings me to the control thing. No, I never implied conspiracy. Of course I can't know what goes on in some perverbial board room someplace in Hollywood, but I know black people AREN'T in charge. The general tv public has known for years that that town is run by white heterosexual males. Hell, even some of the producers and major producers are gay white men. So, these people make the final cuts and decisions regardless. They also run the casting agencies, which is where the ultimate racial pairings are done. I'm not a racist, I'm just saying they must know how the general white public would feel about ANYTHING IR. Thus, they manipulated the casts of tv and movies accordingly. But no, they aren't representing the demo-graphic. They are presenting their own "graphic" to the public how they feel it should be.
I can't believe some people in here discourage Rihanna from dating white men/starring as their love interest in a movie. Isn't this site about unity of all ethnicities and races? Or did I miss something?
Dayum, it's like Malikom thinking every women SHOULD date a black man. Black women are only allowed to date black men and white women are only allowed to date black men (providing they're not obese, if they are the white guys can have her).
But yeah, like FlyGirl said, keep blaming us white women. But really, it's not our fault since we're socially conditioned to oppose interracial relations between black men and white women on the big screen. :smt017
Again, I got love for the sistah. And she is...a SISTAH. A BLACK WOMAN. So the weight of the IR argument isn't lost on me. I know how powerful an image it is of her being presented on the screen with a white male. But I'm not threatened because I approve of IR dating. Otherwise, I like many others, would not be here. Once again, it just goes to a gross double standard of how relationships involving black women with non-black males is vastly different than the opposite. Black women can date whoever they wish. Kerry Washington and Sanaa Lathan, for example, have had onscreen romances with white men as well as black men and I have never complained. I would just be a hipocrit for that. But let's not pretend the same can be said for my black brothen.
In the end, I don't believe ALL ww are socially conditioned. But I don't see alot of picket signs in front of MGM to put on a Denzel Washington/Scarlett Johannsen Harlequinn novel either.
