Music Videos

The other day I was at a concert--Jingle Ball. In between artists they would play music videos. Of course, the majority of those videos were love songs, usually sung by guys such as Bruno Mars. When his song "Just the Way You Are" came on, I took notice at the girl. Bruno is mixed and the girl, if not of some latino desent, is promidantly white. Then I came to releaize something. Why does the term 'interracial" mean "black and white." A while back my family and I were watching a movie and in it the black man said to the black girl (who he had an affair with and she was going back to her white boyfriend) about how there isn't really such thing as an interracial couple, that its always "one of us (person of color) hanging on to one of them (white person)". Now of course, there are couples of asain and black or native and latino, but they aren't as "advertised" as white and black (or one person placed with another of the same race). The question is--why? Does this follow to the subconscious thinking that every one wants to be white--and when they can't literally be white, maybe we have to be with someone who is white. It may also appear strange to some people to watch a music video of MIA singing her love song to a man of strong Japenese descent. It would seem "out of place." What I ask you to take into consideration what I have written. To recongized all races and mixtures in our diverse world for yourself. Do not let the modern world limit you.

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