Yep. And this is one reason I haven't even seen the movie. I stayed away at first because I just knew the girlfriend was going to be evil too. I didn't want to support another film in which the IR between a black man and a white woman was portrayed negatively in one way or another (the Jungle Fever approach). And then when the responses started rolling in on social media and black fools thought Jordan Peele was putting out a message that black men dating white women is wrong (not interracial dating is bad, just black men dating white women) I just had to shake my head. Then many of those same fools got irate when finding out Peele was married to a white woman. These are some low IQ individuals, not much different than Trump voters who keep overlooking his countless flaws. Those who attacked Peele were angry he wasn't some racist asshole who wanted to denigrate white women and any black man who hook up with them. They wanted him to be Spike Lee.
If I could "like" this part a million times I would.
In the comics;
Spiderman never dated black women.
Thor never dated black women.
Flash never dated black women.
But Luke Cage did date and marry Jessica Jones. Period. Supergirl has/had a black boyfriend. Superwoman had a black boyfriend. Batgirl has/had a black boyfriend. Captain Marvel had a black boyfriend.
Despite that you had black women throwing tantrums about Luke being with Jessica. There is one prominent black woman on twitter named FilmFatale or Black Femme Fatale or something along those lines. Anyway she started this nonsense about how the WHITE WOMAN (because black ladies can't go on twitter without hating on white women) who ran Jessica Jones' show was guilty of erasing black women (an increasingly common complaint). She took the show to task for not having a large black female presence, complaining that all we got was Luke's dead wife and some black married woman who was cheating on her husband with Luke. I guess she forgot about Rosario Dawson but, hey, why let facts get in your way. She went on to complain that the show should have made Jessica's best friend black (even though that character is white and has been around longer than Jessica Jones). Her twitter rant pretty much summed up black women in general on social media when discussing Hollywood shows/movies : More black women please, no IR between BM and WW but IR between WM & BW are acceptable, if the lead is a white female give her black friends even though the black women clamoring for this would never befriend a white woman in the real world because they hate them too much.
Anyway I politely challenged this woman's viewpoint and instead of responding with a counter or just brushing it off as some nobody disagreeing with her take, she immediately blocked me.
I'm keeping my eye on the casting of the male co-stars/love interests of Captain Marvel and Batgirl (which is supposed to be based on the updated DC 52 Batgirl who had a relationship with the son of Lucious Fox). If the films go with white guys then they are officially practicing a double standard. Hell, they may go with a Hispanic guy or some Asian dude to look as if they care about diversity but that means they are still avoiding pairing a white woman with a black guy.
By the way even Wonder Woman had a black boyfriend for a short time in the comic books. Even though this was before social media the extreme negative reaction to that development could be felt from a million miles away. White fanboys couldn't handle it.
I joked about this not too long ago. I wonder when black women will call out their relationship being toxic and an insult to black women. And I wonder when folks will charge that the two leads have no chemistry and causing TPTB to pair Dagger with some white guy who never even existed in the comic books.
