See and here I was told a couple of years ago that straight black men were the white people of black people.
As for the black guy being paired with the universally acknowledged hot girl on a show. I will say the one that immediately came to mind was probably the Jessica Lowndes and Tristan Wilde pairing but I think lots of guys thought that Anna Lynne McCord was the hottest girl on the show. There was the short lived tv series on UPN South Beach that paired Lee Thompson and Odette Yustman but that was doomed from the start as they almost immediately put them in a love triangle situation with her newly arrived to south beach ex-boyfriend.
Shows in the USA usually don't pair the hottest girl with a black guy. They will put him with the hot girls friends but not with her at most they flirt and dance around it but never get together, Cloak & Dagger would change that. Algee Smith actually auditioned for the role of Ethan on the show, bet if he was in that role people would have had a much more positive view because he would have been lusting after the big girl (a black guy stereotype) and the fact that she would probably be the 6th most attractive of the girls on the show. Movies on the other hand its a little different. Lets be real though even when the hottest girl on the show is black or biracal she is often paired with a white guy. Also ever notice how when their is a biracial character on these shows and its a woman she is often the product of a WM + BF IR relationship.
Thanks for the synopsis of Dear White People and the bio on the guy behind it. Seems like they have shortened the title from Dear White People we dont think Black men are shit either. At this point being a straight black man in the entertainment field just does not seem worth it. I agree that we are to blame a bit because we have just sat back and taken it for a while and allow it to happen where these groups have taken of image and stories and contorted them to fit their own agenda. I also blame the men in those rooms in those production meets for not saying what the fuck
I swear we are the most often imitated and duplicated men on the planet while simultaneously being the least appreciated and most shitted on people. Its a real conundrum, its like the only time a black man is appreciated is if he can run fast, jump high, catch a ball, make you laugh, and while this might seem crude but true non the less if he can fuck like a champ and blow your back out. But while he does all that he better be bowing down to a certain group or groups.
It does not just apply to mainstream entertainment or scripted tv though. All facets of the entertainment industry have decided that straight black men are immaterial and can be talked to and about in anyway and there will be no consequences at all. Disney despite making a ton of money off of black men, they got Michael Strahan (non threatening funny man) all over the place. They got Stephen A (loud mouth entertainer) all over the place. They pay billions of dollars to put the NBA/NFL college football and basketball on ESPN and ABC (Run fast, jump high catch a ball). Yet they will never have a black bachelor.
Then do not even get me started on the adult entertainment side of things and not just porn but all facets of the adult entertainment industry (sex work and strip clubs included) where shitting on black men is an open practice and all but encouraged of all the girls doing this kind of work but its most prevalent amongst you guessed it the black and biracial girls.