Monday, December 28, 2009

Why is it that in movies/U.S. TV you never see happy interracial couples?

Why is it that in movies/U.S. TV you never see happy interracial couples. Black people are always paired together and so on...





The only time you see interracial couples is when they are in an unhappy relationship!!!!! How can Hollywood be so narrow-minded????Why is it that in movies/U.S. TV you never see happy interracial couples?
The media is sooo shallow, they want to appeal to a bigger audience to make more money. Remeber, t.v. is nothing like reality. I've seen plenty of happy interracial couples together,in my family there are strong prosperous interracial marriges. To me it seems in reality interracial couples are happier. The media wants people to think segregation is the way of life, and sadly some people follow this, then again many others don't.Why is it that in movies/U.S. TV you never see happy interracial couples?
There's been a few...it's not all like on trash shows such as Jerry Springer.





What about ';I Love Lucy?'; They were an interracial couple both on TV and in real life. Lucy was white, Ricky (Desi Arnaz) was Hispanic.





There are two movies that had interracial couples both of the movies starring Sidney Portier: To Sir With Love and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. Both movies were successful despite the fact that the ban on interracial marriages was either still in effect or just lifted in the same year, and there was still a lot of controversy. The movie ';Guess Who'; with Ashton Kutcher is a remake of the Portier classic.





There's the movie Hitch with Will Smith and Eva Mendes.





There was the I/R couple, The Willis family, on The Jeffersons back in the 1970s. They were a happy couple. The wife on the show was in a real-life I/R marriage. She was the mother of rock star Lenny Kravitz.





There was Shawn and Angela on the ABC sitcom ';Boy Meets World'; who was in a mixed relationship, no problems there. There's also Bernard and Rose, an older mixed couple on the show ';Lost'; but that show is not really a ';happy'; show as it were.





There's also been a few movies with mixed couples as secondary/tertiary characters or as extras, but you have to really be observant to find them. In the movie, ';How Stella Got Her Groove Back';, one of Stella's snobbier sisters is married to a white man named Kennedy. She disapproves of Stella being with a younger man, but seem oblivious to the fact that some may look down their noses at HER relationship.





I am still waiting for the '; Meg Ryanesque feel good romantic comedy'; with an I/R couple in it and the couple is treated normally, but something tells me I'll be waiting for a while longer.
Fear.





Of those who would boycott them if they showed the truth.





(Religious Nutjobs).

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