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Sexual Fetishism of Interracial Couples?

I found it interesting. I did a google image search "interracial photography" because I need an image for a poster project i'm doing of a interracial couple. However almost all of the image results were sexualized images of black males and white women. Many were tastefully done, but I still find the pairing interesting. For one, I think the fact that all the couples are sexualized show a sort of fetishism about it. This not only brings up the idea of black males as animalistic and therefore erotic, but also shows (I think) that the issue of interracial relations is not taken seriously. It is seen as a sexual fetishism and commodity rather than a portrayal of love and compassion. I think sexualizing things reduces vulnerability to classes in power.  We do it with females, and I think we are doing it with interracial couples too.
Corperate influence NY times Cronon Investigation http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/28krugman.html His research on ALEC etc. http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/ statements between the two for emails http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/ SOPA Overview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act governments and corperations combine to put social media on the market Companies that support SOPA http://gizmodo.com/5870241/presented-without-comment-every-single-company-supporting-sopa-the-awful-internet-censorship-law Supporters of SOPA, those that did and dropped out (didn't want bad public image) and those that oppose it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_with_official_stances_on_the_SOPA_and_PIPA Why Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO) opposes SOPA http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/mark-zuckerberg-sopa_n_1214090.html Mark Zuckerberg's twitter feed http://twitter.com/#!/finkd 60 minutes on Mark Zuckerber