The Dark King
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From 2:57 on they talk about bm and ww in media. Sooooo on point, must watch
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Holy Shit They So Nailed It!!!!
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I loved it! Me and some of my friends used to have exchanges like that long ago. It brings back memories. Another thing I noticed was what each one at the table was eating. The preppy boy was eating a salad, the guy next to him was eating chicken strips with fries. And I couldn't make out what the other boy and girl were eating. It shows diversity...almost. But their observations about Hollywood were dead on. 
GQ Brotha
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LOL, does make one pause and think.
One of the most powerful mediums Hollywood indeed sets its agenda.
LOL, when he said Will Smith and Rosario Dawson in Men In Black 2
Will Smith and Ava Mendez in Hitch
Denzel and Ava Mendez in Training Day
Will Smith and Rosario Dawson in Seven Pounds
Notice the pattern, coincidence.
One of the most powerful mediums Hollywood indeed sets its agenda.
LOL, when he said Will Smith and Rosario Dawson in Men In Black 2
Will Smith and Ava Mendez in Hitch
Denzel and Ava Mendez in Training Day
Will Smith and Rosario Dawson in Seven Pounds
Notice the pattern, coincidence.
LOL, does make one pause and think.
One of the most powerful mediums Hollywood indeed sets its agenda.
LOL, when he said Will Smith and Rosario Dawson in Men In Black 2
Will Smith and Ava Mendez in Hitch
Denzel and Ava Mendez in Training Day
Will Smith and Rosario Dawson in Seven Pounds
Notice the pattern, coincidence.
They left out Denzel Washington and Eva Mendez in Out Of Time.
GQ Brotha
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ROFL, yep. Saw it again a month or so back on one of the premium channels.
Coincidentally in that same flick Dean Cain was having a relationship with Sanaa Lathan. Hmmm.
Never let anyone be left with a doubt that Hollywood doesn't set its own agendas when a script is pitched.
We did have Save The Last Dance I guess.
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orejon4
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Great!
The Dark King
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Thanks fellas. I always wondered if I was the only one who noticed let alone white guys/white people who don't date out
ROFL, yep. Saw it again a month or so back on one of the premium channels.
Coincidentally in that same flick Dean Cain was having a relationship with Sanaa Lathan. Hmmm.
Never let anyone be left with a doubt that Hollywood doesn't set its own agendas when a script is pitched.
We did have Save The Last Dance I guess.
Jessica Alba in Honey. Sofia Vergara and Tyrese Gibson in Four Brothers. Pieces Of April. Made In America. Beauty Shop. Many others to name.
Soulthinker
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Which is why Save The Last Dance,One Night Stand,and a few others are IR classics.
Let us not forget Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and Melvin Van Peebles's The Story Of a Three Day Pass. Check out the biopic BADAAASSS! It is the story about the production of Van Peeble's film Sweet Sweetback's Badaaasss Song(considered the first contemporary Blaxploitation film). Mario Van Peebles plays his father. There is a scene in which he is sleeping with a white woman.
JamalSpunky
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Wait!!!!!
Snagglepuss is gay?!? Oh...my...God. Of course! It explains everything.
No, the video is on point in regards to the bm-ww thing. Of course I have a few quibbles. It should have stuck with movies rather than bring in TV as an example because TV has plenty of examples, modern ones too, of ww getting with bm even if lately TV has been leaning more towards programs centered around wm with bw. But movies are a different animal as we all know. Also Rosario Dawson falls just as much under the "black" label as she does the Latino one. Nonetheless the point is still the same. Hollywood has been far more hesitant in films to show ww with bm. It will even go as far as to co out and pair the black guy with a Latina like Eve Mendes instead (something observed by Eve Mendes herself close to a decade ago).
The point is that the lack of such hookups is becoming noticeable even to the mainstream which means awareness of it is growing. Perhaps this would lead to Hollywood being shamed into tackling such a taboo.
Snagglepuss is gay?!? Oh...my...God. Of course! It explains everything.
No, the video is on point in regards to the bm-ww thing. Of course I have a few quibbles. It should have stuck with movies rather than bring in TV as an example because TV has plenty of examples, modern ones too, of ww getting with bm even if lately TV has been leaning more towards programs centered around wm with bw. But movies are a different animal as we all know. Also Rosario Dawson falls just as much under the "black" label as she does the Latino one. Nonetheless the point is still the same. Hollywood has been far more hesitant in films to show ww with bm. It will even go as far as to co out and pair the black guy with a Latina like Eve Mendes instead (something observed by Eve Mendes herself close to a decade ago).
The point is that the lack of such hookups is becoming noticeable even to the mainstream which means awareness of it is growing. Perhaps this would lead to Hollywood being shamed into tackling such a taboo.
The Dark King
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Both Hispanic
JamalSpunky
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As pointed above two of your examples were with women who are classified as Latinas.
made in America? The movie? Isn't that the one in which the only IR involves Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson?
Beauty Shop? The IR hookup is a subplot of a subplot of a subplot. I mean if there are "many others" as you claim then why choose that one?
Please go ahead and list those "many others" by the way. Take your time. Once done I will list the examples of movies with wm-bw hookups that will dwarf your list.
1. Hairspray(1988,2007)
2.Mandingo(1975)
3.100 Rifles(1969)
4. Relax...It's Just Sex(1998)
5.The Hotel New Hampshire(1984)
6. Two Days In New York(2012)
7. Marci X(2003)
8. Manderlay(2005)
9. I'm Through With White Girls(The Inevitable Undoing Of Jay Brooks) (2007)
10. Shadows(1959)
11. The Great White Hope(1970)
12. My Baby Is Black! (1961)
13. One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
14. Drum (1976)
15. Romeo & Jewel (2008)
16. Hot Summer In The City (1976) (Porn)
17. Black Snake (1973)
18. Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973)
19.Slaughter(1972)
20. Shaft In Africa (1973)
21.The Story Of a Three Day Pass (1968)
22. Bone (1972)
23. The Human Tornado (1976)
24. Joanna (1968)
25. Together For Days (1972)
25. The Grasshopper
27. Othello (1995)
28. O (2001)
29. Far From heaven (2002)
30. Snow Dogs (2002)
31. Party Girl (1995)
32. In My Country (2004)
33. The Golden Child (1986)
34. Bone (1972)
35. They're Just My Friends (2006)
36. Dumbarton Bridge (1999)
37. Dark Summer (1994)
38. A Fight For Jenny (1986)
39. Changing The Odds (2006)
40. Seventeen (1983)
41. Love Relations (2001)
42. On N'Eterre Pas Le Dimanche (1959)
43. The File On Jill Hatch (1983)
44. Greta (2008)
45. A Killing Affair (1977)
46.Flame In The Streets (1961)
47. Brooklyn Babylon (2000)
48. Night Of The Strangler (1973)
49. Love Field (1992)
50. Distance (1975)
51. American Son (2008)
52. Ain't Scared (2007)
53. Lulu & Jimi (2007)
54. Air: The Musical (2009)
55. The Lawn Boy (2008)
56. A Respectable Trade (1998)
57. Hag In A Black Leather Jacket (John Waters film) (1964)
58. Le Secret (2000)
59. Why Do Black Men Date White Women (2006)
60. Passion & Prejudice (1969)
61. The Lost man (1969)
62. Without Pity (1948)
63. Constellation (2007)
These are what I had found online. Some were from the US, others from the UK and other countries.
The Dark King
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None of these are mainstream fam, I think that's the jist of the point. Big movies and tv shows.
Soulthinker
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You have not mentioned the foreign film:How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired.
RicardoCooper
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MilkandCoffee
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I'm just posting what I had found. They are out there and available. Big and small. Foreign and domestic. Past and present. If this at least does not satisfy yours or anyone's curiosity on the subject of IR romance in films or television, I'm sorry.