WHY IS TV AFRAID OF SHOWING BLACK PEOPLE LOVING BLACK PEOPLE

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     "This over-representation of interracial relationships of Black characters with white partners on television is reflective of the ways in which to center whiteness within the Black experience is our new “woke” entertainment landscape.

     By tagging a white partner to the majority of new Black stories, entertainment groups are able to avoid telling a largely Black story by including a white person as peripheral to the Black character’s life. It’s a way of increasing Black representation while still allowing non-Black actors and actresses—particularly white men—to maintain their footholds across the entertainment landscape. White actors and actresses still hold the coveted spot of being the adored love interest in a wider range of movies than ever before.

     Intraracial Black relationships are so often depicted as abusive or volatile in comparison to the way many interracial relationships are portrayed. Movies like Acrimony readily align with the trope that Black couples are doomed for a life of abuse and philandering. This sends a violent message that the key to true happiness for a Black person is to find a white partner—which is anti-Black.

     This is not to say that interracial relationships are wrong or indicative of self hate. It’s to say that Hollywood’s over-representation of interracial relationships appears as a resistance to showcasing intraracial Black relationships. Studios believe that creating a white character peripheral to Black stories will make them more palatable to wider audiences. This is a disservice to the representation ethos that is about showcasing Black life as it truly exists. Black love in all its forms should accurately be depicted on the screen."

read more: https://racebaitr.com/2019/02/26/why-is-tv-so-afraid-to-show-black-people-loving-black-people/?fbclid=IwAR3ktrkFKdwaayJrLUalg0mYIYQwcBWminBM__6-1mAQQt-YeWgYMQppoo4

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UNDERNEATH THE SAMENESS RHETORIC

This person who made this meme is trying to communicate things like: "I don't see color." "I am above seeing differences" "If everybody was above seeing differences, we'd all get along."

Some people will see the problem with this meme immediately and say, "They mean well." But I say the person that makes and embraces these kinds of things mean well for me-and-mine and for me-and-mine only.

Using race as an example: I keep thinking that the kind of person who makes this kind of meme tends to believe some of the same key things that the racist believes

1) difference is bad.

2) respecting differences is unnecessary.

That's why I can't really trust people who love this kind of thing. I keep thinking that eventually there will be a difference seen in someone that is clearly *other* that cannot be denied, that will pierce the willful unconsciousness of the above it all person. And at that moment, Mr or Miss Above-It-All will have a 50/50 chance of moving from the noncommittal, non-racist position to rabid racist OR anti-racist.

Tim Wise might have been such a noncommittal person once. But the problem is that Dylann Roof might have been such a person once too.

Maybe I'm being pessimistic to say the chances are 50/50. But even if the chances of going from non-racist to rabid racist is only 1 in 10 that's still too much for me. And staying pat where they are at non-committal non-racist? That position still enables racism. So that's a problem too. These kinds of memes don't work for me AT ALL.