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Which brings me to how you can even think that it's more BM/WM than BF/WM.
And even in Obssessed no SEX went down.....NONE! If that had been Brad Pitt, that toilet sceen would have been lit up! So they write the brotha as a "faithful guy" (which is cool with me but a cop-out).
It's just an overall perception that I have. Possibly from commercials, television, non-movie portrayals in music videos, etc. A group of friends (say, two guys and two girls, but one of the guys is black and both girls are white.... no explicit representation of a relationship, but the implication is there.
I am white an am pretty much always shocked when I see WM/BF representations in the media. GAP had a commercial last year where a black girl and a white guy were making eyes at each other and I thought it was revolutionary, lol.
I also have noticed (and have discussed with black female co-workers), how even black couples on TV usually is partnered up with a darker skinned black man, and a bi-racial or light skinned black women. Pay attention next time multiple commercials are on with a black couple and see if you can observe the same.
The point with "Obsessed" is that the IR feature was FORCED. It didn't seem natural, it was kind of like, "well, we should diversify for the sake of diversifying." IR should add to the story. Not just, "well, let's pair Will Smith with a white woman because we want to be perceived as having a problem with that sort of thing."
But hey, even if it is calculated based on popular public perceptions, movie studios still have to make money! If you make both crazy BF AND crazy WM upset about Will Smith being with a white woman, you won't make a lot of money, lol!
Well, are Latins 'white', or something else? I don't consider them being something between black and white, like some kind of compromise or hybrid. The Spanish in Europe are are white, so are Latinos also white? Maybe not in Mexico, because a typical Mexican Latino has a mix of Spanish and local Indian. Cubans are not mixed with Indian, hence they are white, so Eva Mendez in the movie is white. Maybe not a blonde white, but a brunette one.
Lawrence Fisburn (black) had sex with a blonde (Ellen Barkn, below) in that spy-movie "Bad Company".
Cubans are white? When did that memo come out? I've been stopped for driving while black, and I should have told the cops they were mistaken........
SOME Cubans are white. Some are black. Some are Chinese. Many are mixed.
Same with Latins in general. The vast majority of people in Latin America are NOT white. Sorry.
Pretty much always. That news anchor from CNN announced she was black, and I was surprised because I had no idea. I thought she was a Latina. It looks like its the half-blacks themselves who choose to call themselves black.
Soledad O'Brien is a black Latina. Black is a racial term, Latina is cultural. She happens to be a Cuban woman of African origin.
There are blacks in Cuba, but Cubans are not mixed with Indians like central American Latinos are.
There are very few European white people in Cuba. I would say less than 20 percent of the population, especially since the vast majority of Cubans who left between 1959-1980 were white.
White Cubans are white..............Most Cubans are not white.
Nothing, and I was just adding my thoughts. I'm just tired of people finding racism around every corner and trying to disect and view life always based on some perceived race issue. I thought my example was just as meaningful as most of the others.
It is. Thanks for participating. Seriously.
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