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* Played with in ''Comicbook/ThePulse'', when a black nurse gives the white ComicBook/JessicaJones crap about having a black boyfriend. ComicBook/LukeCage later gets this from the new Power Man.

* In ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'', there's an interracial married couple, Tom and Sarah [=DuBois=], who struggle with this issue. Also see the Western Animation example below.

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 [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs it is simply a mundane relationship.]] Only when it is seen as a [[MalignedMixedMarriage controversial mixed marriage]] and/or one of the lovers [[RaceFetish expresses an extra attraction to their partner's skin tone]] is the trope in effect.

* Creator/ChrisRock did a load of stuff on this topic.
-->'''Chris:''' A black man would ''step over'' Creator/HalleBerry... to get to Rosie O'Donnell. ''She doesn't even like men!'' But she could get a ''black'' man!

* The infamous 1975 {{Blaxploitation}} movie ''Mandingo'', which is about a horny slaveowner's wife (named Blanche, FFS) seducing a ScaryBlackMan on the plantation. It ends with a black baby being born and the white owner murdering both his wife and his slave in revenge.

* Savion played half of such on a VerySpecialEpisode of ''Series/SesameStreet'' dealing with racism.

* Savion played half of such a couple on a VerySpecialEpisode of ''Series/SesameStreet'' dealing with racism.

* Creator/WillSmith played half of such a couple on a VerySpecialEpisode of ''Series/SesameStreet'' dealing with racism.

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 [[DeepSouth south]]) -- where black-white ethnic relations are troubled and this trope actually comes into play. In RealLife, 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 DoubleStandard 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, [[InsaneTrollLogic 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.

* Played with in ''Comicbook/ThePulse'', when a black nurse gives the white ComicBook/JessicaJones crap about having a black boyfriend. ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} later gets this from the new Power Man.

* ''Main/PlayedForLaughs'' by the filmmakers to the point of ''Main/BoomerangBigotry'' in ''Film/MarciX'' starring ''Creator/LisaKudrow''.

* ''Main/PlayedForLaughs'' by the filmmakers to the point of ''Film/BoomerangBigotry'' in ''Film/MarciX'' starring ''Creator/LisaKudrow''.

* Parodied in the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit "Meet Your Second Wife", in which the three male contestants are introduced to the girls who will become their second wives in a few years, as well as how this will happen--divorce, widowed. When they get to the third contestant, a black man, he fervently prays that the woman ''not'' be white and is very dismayed that she is, cringing at the ''epic'' DeathGlare his current wife is giving him.

* ''Film/PainAndGain'': Adrian marries a fat white nurse[[spoiler:, who eventually divorced him]].

* Forrest Whitaker in ''Film/TheCryingGame'' with Miranda Richardson's character Jude. Then there's his erstwhile lover Dil, who's more...[[AmbiguouslyBrown unclear]] (she was portrayed by the biracial Jaye Davidson), but in her case, the color of her skin is [[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame only the tip of the iceberg.]]

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Just like [[MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow European men and east Asian women can't get enough of each other]], [[MatzoFever and Gentile guys and Jewish chicks go gaga over one another]] [[ShiksaGoddess (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 ([[EntitledToHaveYou 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 [[DeepSouth south]]) -- where black-white ethnic relations are troubled and this trope actually comes into play. In RealLife, 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 DoubleStandard 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, [[InsaneTrollLogic 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.

** ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' has Shoshanna in a relationship with Marcel.

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 [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs it is simply a mundane relationship.]] Only when it is seen as a [[MalignedMixedMarriage controversial mixed marriage]] is the trope in effect.

* One of few black characters in Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure, watches this transpire.
** In Part 6, Manga/StoneOcean, Enrico Pucci is a priest born to an Italian mother and a black father, and adopted by a different woman. He learned his brother [[ButNotTooBlack Weather]] [[IdentityAmnesia 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 [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan 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 [[FightingSpirit Stand power]], Whitesnake.

Though it's no big deal in most of the world ([[EntitledToHaveYou 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 [[DeepSouth south]]) -- where black-white ethnic relations are troubled and this trope actually comes into play. In RealLife, 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 DoubleStandard 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, [[InsaneTrollLogic 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.

* 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.

[[caption-width-right:300:Even {{Music/Usher}} likes the white meat.[[note]]The guy on the right in the suit is actually her husband[[/note]]]]

* Forrest Whitaker in ''Film/TheCryingGame'' with Miranda Richardson's character Jude. Then there's his erstwhile lover Dil, who's more...[[AmbiguouslyBrown unclear]], but in her case, the color of her skin is [[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame only the tip of the iceberg.]]