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This petition, which may (which must) be a joke, found its way to me a few days ago. It demands from the porn industry “more accuracy” in how it represents fucking black people. Not all black men are bulls; not all black women are ghetto bitches. Most black men are not packing monster cocks; most black woman are not packing big butts.
It also complains about the quality and setting of black porn:
The videos available are as low budget as one can possibly get; the actors and actresses are usually taken from the most disenfranchised and marginalized portion of the population, the sets appear to be nothing more than housing project residences with cameras and lights set up. Similarly, Black oriented magazines seem to produce a fair amount of income from the most minimal of investment.
And the lack of skin tone and somatic variety:
Black women can be beautiful and sexy with natural hair yet they seem to be dangerously missing from the adult industry. Showing image after image solely of African American female buttocks simply serves to objectify and dehumanize the subjects. Apparently, lighter complexioned African American men are not considered attractive or sexual because their presence in the adult industry is minimal which only serves to reinforce the “Mandingo, cotton-picking, big-dicked-Negro-as-Buck” stereotype. That negatively defines Black manhood as being equivalent to skin tone and penis size.
The most absurd demand, and the only that leads me to believe that the petition is a hoax, is this:
The reinvestment of profits made from the adult industry Black market be made into inner city neighborhoods to improve schools and provide job training to rectify the intentional exploitation of lower income African Americans.If the purpose behind the passage is not comedy, then someone, somewhere is watching porn films while listening to Public Enemy and somehow seeing a connection. “I like porn but wait a minute/the neighborhood supports so put some money in it.”
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