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Little Girl: No thank you, I take it black. Like my men. Airplane! [serving coffee] Cream?No thank you, I take it black. Like my men.

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Just like European men and east Asian women can't get enough of each other, and Gentile guys and Jewish chicks go gaga over one another (or Jewish guys and Gentile chicks), so do black men and white women. According to media, anyway.

Though it's no big deal in most of the world (not more than other types of interracial relationships, anyway), there are still some parts — e.g. South Africa, parts of Europe and the USA (Especially the south) — where black-white ethnic relations are troubled and this trope actually comes into play. In Real Life, black man/white woman couples are pretty common and there are a variety of views on what this kind of relationship should or does entail. White man/black woman pairs don't get as much attention (positive or negative) perhaps because they are less common, at least in America, though the gap appears to be narrowing. South Africa and the USA have had a serious Double Standard when it comes to this gender divide, as a direct consequence of Apartheid and the USA's Jim Crow laws (and slavery before that): many white men had black slave mistresses, and this practice was generally accepted or at least tolerated. The reverse-gendered version, of a free woman loving a male slave, was seen as Corrupting the white race and could result in death for the (African) slave and the public shaming (and possible rape/death) of the free woman. As a result the laws of the time deemed a black man and white woman engaging in consensual sex (Or even sharing space) as equal to rape and lead to the deaths of many innocent black men and the humiliation of innocent white women. When slavery gave way to Jim Crow and Apartheid, this bias remained - the chief difference being that before Apartheid and Jim Crow era, a white woman-black man couple would be lynched by the authorities whereas during, they would instead be lynched by family/friends/neighbors whom the authorities couldn't be bothered to prosecute for murder. Thats assuming the man in question wasnt already jailed for, god forbid, being attracted to her.

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While less common and no longer illegal, hatred for these pairings is still Truth in Television. Due to the extensive history between blacks and whites described above, bias still exists toward black man & white women pairings. And people today have lost their lives or dignity over choosing someone who isnt of their race. But given that any real life example would be subjective and might even cause a flame war, all you need to know about this trope's impact in real life has been described above.

Please note that just like this trope's white/Asian counterpart, not every black/white romance falls under this trope. If the lovers just happen to be interracial and nobody makes a big deal out of it, then it is simply a mundane relationship. Only when it is seen as a controversial mixed marriage is the trope in effect.

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It's also worth noting that the affection isn't one-sided in the least. There are plenty of white women on the prowl, wondering if what they've heard is true. This trope was commonly nicknamed Jungle Fever, until Spike Lee made a film deconstructing the term.

Contrast Like Goes with Like. The gender inverted version of this trope is Black Gal on White Guy Drama. Also, any discussion of this trope is likely to bring up Black Is Bigger in Bed. Also tends to be used in Dating What Daddy Hates.

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Anime & Manga

One of few black characters in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, watches this transpire. In Part 6, Stone Ocean, Enrico Pucci is a priest born to an Italian mother and a black father, and adopted by a different woman. He learned his brother Weather Report was dating Perla Pucci, their maternal half-sister (Fully White), and arranged for members of the church to break the news of their incest and dissolve the relationship in a soft manner. These men were actually members Of the The Klan, who instead assault the couple and attempted to lynch Weather. Fortunately they survive, unfortunately they break up out of fear and Perla commits suicide. Seeing Perla's corpse and learning what happened to his brother caused enough trauma for Pucci to develop his signature Stand power, Whitesnake.



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Some controversy was aimed at a Cheerios ad that featured the cute daughter of an interracial couple.

was aimed at a Cheerios ad that featured the cute daughter of an interracial couple. In a series of ads for Arnott's "Tim-Tams" chocolate biscuits, a guy and girl stumble upon a magic lamp, releasing a genie who grants them Three Wishes. When Arnott's brought out Tim-Tams in dark chocolate, the genie took the form of a handsome black man who eyes the girl suggestively after the first two wishes lead to her boyfriend disappearing with a hot blonde. He's rather disappointed when she wishes for a pack of never-ending Tim-Tams instead.

Comedy

Chris Rock did a load of stuff on this topic. Chris: A black man would step over A black man would step over Halle Berry ... to get to Rosie O'Donnell. She doesn't even like men! But she could get a black man!

Comic Books

Played with in Quantum and Woody, with Eric's (who's black) longtime unrequited love for Amy Fishbein. His best friend Woody repeatedly warns him that her white suburban Jewish family would strongly oppose such a relationship.

In The Boondocks, there's an interracial married couple, Tom and Sarah DuBois, who struggle with this issue. Also see the Western Animation example below.

Averted in Archie Comics with a dash of Unfortunate Implications; writer Matt Wayne tried to introduce a black love interest for Betty so that she could also have her own love triangle. Since he was portrayed as The Ace, the editor vetoed it and had him changed to be a white character. In another instance, writers got to vote on a new love interest for Cheryl Blossom. The black character won out, but when the "results comic" was finally released, the character had much paler skin than he was originally designed with.

Played with in The Pulse, when a black nurse gives the white Jessica Jones crap about having a black boyfriend. Luke Cage later gets this from the new Power Man.

Heavily downplayed in W.I.T.C.H.: Cornelia may be in a relationship with a black guy, but the only one who ever gave her flak for this is her grandmother.

Film

Literature

Holes. The relationship between Sam, a black man, and Kate, a white woman, causes another man after Kate to kill Sam, provoking Kate into becoming the notorious bandit Kissin' Kate Barlow .

. John Updike's Brazil is about an affair between a rich white girl and poor black man who later run away together. Later they switch colours by mystic means (it's a long story). It does not end well.

Perry Moore's Hero is about a team of misfit superheroes. Precog and Cool Old Lady Ruth recounts to main character Thom her black boyfriend from her younger days. Her rich father is not pleased with this, and has her boyfriend savagely attacked. However, she had no idea about this and was told he left her. She just so happens to see him again some time later, working as a stock boy, visibly disabled and uncoordinated from the beating he suffered. Ruth was so horrified that she couldn't face him, and said they would talk after his shift. He said he would wait. At that point, she drove away and her rage prompted her decades-long crime spree before she decided to become a superhero to repent her crimes. When she was dying after being attacked by the Big Bad , her last words were, "He did wait for me..." A definite tear-jerker.

In The Poisonwood Bible, Leah (a white girl who came to the Congo with her missionary family) ends up marrying Anatole (a black citizen of the Congo). There are a lot of awkward moments, to say the least, over Leah's skin color, as she is the minority in the country where she lives, and because her race defines her as a citizen of an imperialist country.

Older Than Print: The Framing Device of 1001 Arabian Nights includes this with Persian women, namely the queens of the brother kings. Said queens are found lying with black slaves. The trope is then repeated multiple times within the tales.

To Kill a Mockingbird: "White trash" Mayella Ewell comes on to Tom Robinson, a black man, in 1930s Alabama. As he tries to get away, her father comes in, witnesses this, beats the shit out of her, and then forces her to claim Robinson raped her.

In the short story Spawn of Satan by Charles Birkin, a black man and his white wife move to a town ruled by neo-Nazi street gangs. He is horribly and gruesomely lynched by the gangs in revenge for his wife accidentally killing a white child when she had a heart attack while driving.

In Model Minority a half-white half-Japanese teenager is beaten by her (white) mother for daring to date an adorkable black guy she met at art class. Mom seems to have fewer problems with her daughter's next black suitor, mainly because he's an associate of her drug dealer.

Native Son deconstructs this because the prejudice against black men with white women is very high, when he drags Mary into her bedroom after she became drunk, in the stupidest decision in his life, he kisses her because this would probably be the only time in his life he could do this, but accidentally kills her when he smothers her with a pillow when the blind mother walks in because he knows he willed be accused of raping or wanting to rape her regardless of what had happened. When he tells his girlfriend that he burned the body after the police want to arrest him, she points out that they will think he raped her, and since her body is burnt there will be no evidence saying he didn't.

Played for seriously black humour in Tom Sharpe's farces of South Africa in The Apartheid Era. Riotous Assembly begins with the horror evinced by Kommondant van Heerden of the Piemburg Police Force, when he realises the pillar of respectable white society, Lady Hazelstone, murdered her black cook when he refused to continue having sex with her. It becomes not only a murder case but confronts the unspeakable horror of a white woman actually wanting to have sex with a Zulu. Indecent Exposure sees the lunatic racist Liutnant Verkramp, placed in charge of the police, deciding to use aversion therapy to deter his policemen from raping black women note they are described as considering this to be a perk of an underpaid low-status job . Note Verkramp's priority is not the rape, but the fact white policemen are raping black women - a bigger crime in the Apartheid era. The Nazi-refugee Dr von Blimenstein enthusiastically assists with the therapy. In her day job as psychiatrist, she deals with the sexually repressed neuroses and paranoia of white South African women, that one day the blacks will rise and rape every white woman they can, and, well, the blecks are so big, aren't they? She clinically calls this "blackcock fever". She also dealt with a case where a zookeeper with an inferiority complex chose to measure his erection against the length of a poisonous Black Mamba. This did not end well.

. Note Verkramp's priority is not the rape, but the fact white policemen are raping black women - a bigger crime in the Apartheid era. The Nazi-refugee Dr von Blimenstein enthusiastically assists with the therapy. In her day job as psychiatrist, she deals with the sexually repressed neuroses and paranoia of white South African women, that one day the blacks will rise and rape every white woman they can, and, well, the blecks are so big, aren't they? She clinically calls this "blackcock fever". She also dealt with a case where a zookeeper with an inferiority complex chose to measure his erection against the length of a poisonous Black Mamba. This did not end well. After becoming famous with the TV show Pawn Stars, Gold & Silver Pawn Shop owner Rick Harrison wrote his autobiography, My Life At The Gold And Silver Pawn Shop. The book is full of anecdotes about some of the customers who come into his shop to pawn valuables, including pimps who pawn their bling jewelry. Rick recounts how one black pimp came in with a group of white women in tow. The pimp explained to Rick that many of his black customers couldn't resist the "forbidden fruit" appeal of white women, so they would pay huge sums to make it with his white girls.

Author Cassie Edwards wrote over 100 bodice ripper romance novels, particularly the Savage series, all of which feature a white woman hooking up with a Native American man. And while she's the most prominent example, she's not the only author to employ this scenario.

wrote over 100 bodice ripper romance novels, particularly the Savage series, all of which feature a white woman hooking up with a Native American man. And while she's the most prominent example, she's not the only author to employ this scenario. In Gone with the Wind, a former neighbor of Scarlett's must flee from Georgia to Texas after killing the former slave who made advances to his sister-in-law and the white man who planted the idea in his head. He warns Scarlett that black men in Atlanta are being told the same thing and she suddenly realizes that this is why her husband has asked her not go out late nor ride through dangerous parts of town. Indeed, she is eventually attacked by a black man and his white trash companion.

Sherlock Holmes: In "The Adventure of the Yellow Face", it is revealed that Effie Munro, the wife of Holmes' client Grant, was previously married to a black man named John Hebron, and had a child with him. She fears the negative consequences, both from her husband and society as a whole, if the child is discovered and word gets out, but fortunately her husband proves very open minded about it and assures her they will find a way to make it work.

Live-Action TV

Music

"KKK Bitch" from Body Count by Ice-T's band Body Count. Also, on the album, a skit before the song states that "the real issue isn't the lyrics on the record, but the risk of the white kid identifying with a black artist, or a white girl, falling in love with a black man". Also from the same album, "Momma's Gotta Die Tonight", where the protagonist kills his racist mother after she negatively reacts to his white girlfriend.

Janis Ian's "Society's Child".

Kanye West - "Gold Digger" And they gone keep calling and trying / But you stay right girl / But when you get on he leave your ass for a white girl. The video for "Touch the Sky" has a scene in which his black ex-girlfriend yells at him for dating a white girl. When said girlfriend (played by Pamela Anderson) runs out and kisses him, the ex-girlfriend and her friend are seen looking annoyed and shocked. In late 2010 Kanye began to embrace this trope. "Champagne Wishes, thirty white bitches..." from "So Appalled" "Had a few white girls..." from "HAM"

Madness - Embarrassment, which was a real life story about a sister of one of the band. Happily, it ended well .

. Public Enemy's "Pollywanacraka" on "Fear of A Black Planet" delves into this trope.

Some of Ice Cube's songs from his "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" to his "The Predator" albums also reference this trope.

The song I Believe by Blessid Union Of Souls is about the hope for love in the world and everyone being seen as people, not different colors I've been seeing Lisa now for a little over a year

She said she's never been so happy, but Lisa lives in fear

That one day daddy's gonna find out she's in love

With a nigger from the streets

Oh, how he would lose it then, but

She's still here with me Their video for their song "Let Me Be The One" has every woman who the black band members go gaga over be white.

Toni Braxton's "How Could an Angel Break My Heart" is about a woman whose lover leaves her for another woman, who is implied to be white (and is white in the music video). I heard her face was white as rain/Soft as a rose that blooms in May

Folk duo February Sky's ballad "Child of the Future " has a white student raising her mixed race daughter after a brief affair with a black friend.

" has a white student raising her mixed race daughter after a brief affair with a black friend. The music video to the 1989 hit "Chorando se foi (Lambada)" by the French pop group Kaoma, which made the Brazilian Lambada dance style an instant world craze, features the mutual Precocious Crush of the black beachcomber boy and the white daugter of the beach restaurant owner, which the girl's racist father disapproves of, until he's made to reconsider by the singers and the beach crowd led by them.

Janis Ian's "Society's Child" is about the breakup of a teenage interracial relationship due to societal pressures. When we're older things may change

But for now this is the way they must remain

Theatre

Web Comics

Nina Crowley from Treading Ground is a white girl who only dates black men. At one point another character refers to her as a Negrophile.

Web Original

Cracked discusses this trope in #5 of this article. It mostly talks about how movies rarely portray this trope when the movie isn't all about race.

Western Animation