The issue is mainstream Hollywood films, the kind where they still refuse to show the ethnic and racial makeup of the country as it really is....where the still assume(based on no evidence that has anything to do with reality) that a predominately white audience can't handle seeing black and white characters interacting as equals, or a romantic relationship between a black and a white character that is emotionally valid and accepted as normal by the other characters(or a romantic relationship between two black characters, or any involving two Latino characters or even one Native American for that matter-for some reason it has to be either white and white or black and Latino and NOTHING else-and if it's a black-Latino relationship, one of the characters has to die, as does the black supporting character whether he's in a relationship or not).
And the films you listed are virtually every film with a predominately black cast by Hollywood in the last forty years.
Why is it so much to ask for Hollywood just to show the multiracial, multiethnic reality of the country on a regular basis? Or to stop assuming that white movie fans can't possibly connect with characters who don't look like them?
After all, most white Americans are overweight and we regularly watch movies where all the actors(or at least the female ones anyway) appear to be slowly starving to death.
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