A Contrary View: Unfortunately, Skin Color Still Matters

Trina McGee Davis, you just don’t get it (“TV Can Help World Erase Color Lines,” Feb. 22). As an older black male living in America, and having experienced the decades between the ‘30s to the present, I could tell you a lot about America and hypocrisy, but space will not permit my doing so.

Trina, you must understand that it is not about you, for it is taken for granted that a white male can want you, a black woman, and nothing should be said or done about it in America. (Check out the many hues of black Americans.) However, as soon as a black male and a white woman date, many people get tense and uptight. Many white males proclaim, “They’re trying to steal our women,” while many black females proclaim, “They’re trying to steal our men.”

Trina, it has been only in the present decade that people of your ilk have stated with verve that “color does not matter.” That color does matter has been a fundamental belief in this country since Plymouth Rock. It will take more than 10 years for it to be otherwise.

GIL GARNE

Inglewood

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Why is it so important that we promote interracial relationships or any other type of relationships through kissing or lovemaking scenes? Does the entertainment industry view this as the only way to prove that these relationships work? What about dialogue that pertains to issues on ethical decisions and moral behavior? That is what teens and adults should be viewing rather than romance scenes, no matter the color or ethnicity of the romantically involved characters.

GENNARO CIBELLI DU TERROIL

Newport Beach