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Friday, January 15, 2010 | 8:05am
SOUND OFF: Thoughts On Biraccial/ Homosexual Relationships on TV?
NBC’s new pilot starring biracial co-stars begs the question
Gugu MBatha-Raw
As we’ve seen from the election of Barack Obama, the United States doesn’t need to be necessarily ready for social or racial advancement in order for it to take place. If we would have waited to be ready for a black President it probably wouldn’t have happened. But what about a Gay president? What about a bi-racial couple in the White House?
This is a country built around diversity. Being American in and of itself implies a decedent of some diluted foreign ancestry. So it would seem ironic that we’re so unlikely to accept others that profile different from us.
So when I saw that NBC was launching a new pilot poised to break racial barriers on television it got me to thinking. The show “Undercovers” will star Boris Kodjoe and British actress Gugu MBatha-Raw both bi-racial actors as leads. While on the surface it might not seem to earth shattering but the image of bi-racial families is not something we’re very used to seeing on television.
Sure the women oooh and ahhh over Boris when stared on SHOWTIME’s “Soul Food” series and a few other low budget black BFF flicks but race he always profiled as black.
So how far are we willing to go? With the barriers pretty much knocked over, are we willing to have accept homosexual couples in movies and television as almost a sidebar, would we vote for an openly homosexual senator based soley oh her politics, could we totally ignore the fact that main character in our favorite black TV show is married to a white woman SOUND OFF
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I can deal with biracial lead actors/actresses, as long as they’re good actors/actresses, race makes me no difference entertainment wise. PEACE!!!
Biracial makes no difference to me at all. It’s the Homosexual that’s the problem. Why subject the rest of the world to your sinfulness. Too many kids thinks it’s the thing to do because it’s thrown in their face. Kids are too young to understand.
I agree with you, except for the “sinfulness” part. They throw nothing but sin at us on tv. All day and all night! And, we (in general) consume it like pigs in a pigsty! So, to single out homosexuality as a sin is picking and choosing sin to condemn. What about all the other ones? with that said…
There is plenty of shows I don’t watch becuause of their subject matter. As a father, I don’t let my children watch certain shows (including ones with gays living together and hugging up on each other all the time) because, as you say, kids don’t understand and I don’t want them to think it’s cool to act in that way, or be disensitised to negative behavior…such as the ones displayed on some “reality” shows…
That’s true even if I were to agree w/ you about being outraged about the gay “sinfulness” you can’t cry foul there without condemning basically every violent or sexually explicit image you see on TV>
The Bi-racial thing doesn’t bother me at all because race doesn’t matter to me. The thing that gets me is all the gay stuff being forced upon us. Is it really necessary for us to have to be bombarded by that nasty shit like we have been? You can’t turn on the damn TV without seeing a fucking fag.
Oh I agree that there is much more “SIN-TV” but we were talking about Biracial and Homosexuality. This world has made up it’s mind to take freedom of speech to another level. And the entertainment business is capitalizing. All I can do now is shake my head and not watch it. But I think the biracial couple is a beautiful site. We’ve come too far not to embrace it. We should be able to love what ever race we choose to love. Enough of the bull already. But I won’t and never will accept homosexuality. Why? Because the Bible saids it wrong.
the Bible says it’s wrong to eat pork, but I bet you love the hell out of a thick greasy porkchop! Don’t cha? The Bible ain’t no moral compass! Have you read the illicit stories of heterosexual activity therein? I’m just sayin’… hate homosexuality if you will, but to use the Bible as your “moral compass” is foolish! The Bible also taught that Africans were to be enslaved (Genesis 9, 10).
AND TO REALLY ANSWER THE “BIRACIAL” QUESTION. It is wrong if TV is flocking to the “light skinned” to star in these roles. If you are a good actor thats fine but don’t pick me because of my color.
Mixed race, bi-racial people on tlevision doesn’t bother me at all. The homosexual activity is where I draw the line. Especially during the so-called “family-time” hours of 8-10pm. Two men or two women kissing and caressing each other is not something I want my children to be witnesses to. It seems like the overwhelming homosexual presence in the entertainment industry overall wants to PUSH their value system on the rest of society. Rosie O’Donnell even has a video with children saying my gay parents are as ideal of a family as a straight family. Little Johnny, two women did’nt create you, a man was involved somehow. We ask all the time what is wrong with the children or America as a whole and here it is. NOTHING is off limits. Homosexual sex is unnatural behavior and I don’t see how openly displaying on television adds to the quality of life of our country. It might make the homosexual individually happy by FORCING you to witness it but the rest of society thinks it’s disgusting. I know I do. If you want to have sex with a man, go ahead but I don’t want to watch. I don’t speak for “America”? Witness the gay ballot amendment in California last year that overwhelmingly failed because the people (Black people in particular) know right and wrong.