That’s what my Trumper brother keeps on complaining about.

What he’s referring to is a phenomenon that I’ve certainly noticed, and you’ve probably done so as well. Lately, more and more TV commercials are showing interracial couples. They portray happily married couples, or affluent middle class consumer sweethearts, enjoying some product or service. Sometimes, even mixed-race kids are evident. In one terminally cute TV ad I even saw a white sixth-grade boy with a crush on a pretty black classmate (well, at least her skin was black, even if her features were acceptably Caucasian). And its not just commercials, more and more you’re starting to see mixed couples in TV dramas where their integrated marriage is not part of the plot. They just happen to be of different races.

The first time I ever noticed this was in the old Sixties Cold War thriller “The Bedford Incident”, about a black journalist (Sidney Poitier) researching a story on board a Navy destroyer with a white captain (Richard Widmark). The truly novel thing was that race had absolutely nothing to do with the plot and it was never addressed in any of the dialog. This was truly unusual for a film of that era, where black characters were either brave crusaders for human rights or helpless victims of Southern bigots. In this film, either of the protagonist’s parts could just as easily have been played by an actor of a different complexion.

Not too long ago, a cereal company showed a white woman and her black husband (and their adorable cafe-au-lait little girl) touting the merits of some breakfast food, and there was all sorts of negative reaction to it on the internet. “Why are they cramming this down our throat?” Now its all over TV, young interracial couples in fancy cars or stylish apartments, old couples consulting their stockbrokers or touring Europe, even an Oreo tableau for a mattress company. Shocking! THEY WERE IN BED TOGETHER! UNDER THE SHEETS!

Yes, they ARE cramming it down your throats. Its a good thing. Sometimes the husband or boyfriend is white, but more often than not its the wife or sweetheart who’s the paleface. Good. That really steams them. They really need to have it crammed down their throat.

Get used to it Bro, I love ya, but you need this. I don’t know how or why you turned out like this. You certainly didn’t get it at home.