As Amber will not be moving the posts from the other thread, here's what I wrote there about my thoughts on the subject. If you've already read this post, feel free to skip it, since I have nothing new to add.
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on the topic of racist or not porn stars, I think this has to do with WHY they won't do the interracial stuff. If they won't because of their fan-base, not racist. If they won't because they don't like how racist the interracial porn is, not racist. If they won't because the plotlines of those sorts of films completely contradict what their image is based off of, not racist. If they won't because it means they'll have to work with a black man, racist.
On the subject of personal preferences, what I'm about to say may offend some people, so I apologize in advance. My intention is not to offend anyone, but that's impossible when we're talking about personal preferences.
For watching sex, the only time I like watching interracial is when it's two people who are obviously very in love. It's not because it's interracial that I like watching it, I just love watching people make love. But, for the most part, I prefer to see the two people have a somewhat similar skin color. I mean, within a few shades. Why? To me, it's really jarring to look at black skin next to white skin. It almost hurts my mind. It's not the people, I have the same problem looking at zebras, (though weirdly, not at white tigers...). I have the same problem when I see black and white next to each other in the center of the color wheel. It's not that I'm offended by it, or that I hate it, it's just that the contrast of seeing two opposites is such a distraction to me that I'm not capable of enjoying what I'm watching.
On the subject of what I find beautiful- it's not the color of their skin, it's the shape of their nose. And it's not just black people whose noses I find distracting. There are some white noses that just make me rule that person out. I know I'd spend all of my time staring at it trying to figure out what it would feel like to have a nose shaped like that. There are plenty of black men out there without that smooshed nose who I find very beautiful indeed. And honestly, I would sleep with one, because I'm not watching myself have sex with them, so I wouldn't have that issue of seeing the skin-on-skin be so... weird.
One bit of weirdness. I had a roommate from Cameroon in high school. I was... fascinated. Not because I thought she was a strange creature. Just because I didn't have much contact with people outside my own race before. And she had the nose thing going on, and I was completely enthralled with the fact that her snot was green. Not that it surprised me, but that it looked like neon green against her skin.
Talking about her was when I had that whole "My roommate is black, and very tall." "you don't say that, you say African-American." "But she's not American! She grew up in Cameroon!" "Well, African then." "But there's white Africans too!" conversation.
One last thing- people from different cultures smell different. It's probably to do with diet, cause her smell became more like mine by the end of the school year. But, well, it's not just different countries that have very different diets. Rich people, Middle class people, working poor, and poor people, each of those have different smells, because of how they eat. My roommate from Cameroon had a different smell than my roommate from Nepal did. My middle-class family has a different smell from my working-poor friends, and a different smell from my almost-rich family. But the smell of people from a different country is more different than the smell of people from a different economic class. Most people, I think, can't even tell the difference between economic classes by the smell (except the very rich and the homeless, but that has more to do with bathing and perfume than the actual body-odors). But the difference when it's a person from a different country is something that most people pick up on real quick. And what we smell affects us more than we realize. I think this has a lot to do with the origins of racism, and why, when people meet those from a different culture or country for the first time, they might react very badly.
Anyway, there's my candid thoughts on race and racism. Again, I apologize to anyone I've offended.