On GoodTrouble, we saw a rare instance of a Black woman addressing Black men's unspoken preference for white women, without reducing her to the stereotype of being bitter
In"Swipe Right," an episode in the first season of Freeform's Good Trouble, the character Malika Williams —the only main cast member who is a Black woman—has a testy and impromptu date with a Black man who had, earlier in the day, declined to match with her on a dating app.
To the uninitiated, The Wince can be hard to explain. It's uncomfortable and rarely talked about out loud because it often gets misconstrued as unfounded jealousy or bigotry towards interracial relationships. But this isn't that. [...] it's that dating outside of your race, as a black man, has traditionally been viewed as a status booster and this seems to be exactly what Jesse may be perpetuating. The Wince is not rooted in hatred.
After Sara breaks off the relationship and Chenille confesses their conversation to Derek, she apologizes for inserting herself saying,"You can't help who you love," and contrasts the difficulties of her teen motherhood with the implied bliss of his relationship with Sara. By connecting the two sentiments, the movie inadvertently reveals that it is punishing Chenille for her views by preventing her from having a loving relationship.
With all that historical and cultural baggage in play, what makes Malika's encounter with Isaac in"Swipe Right" notable is not just that the story allowed her to be right about his unspoken romantic preference for white women, but that it gave her the language she needed to articulate that fact to him without flattening her into a stereotype of an irrational or jealous Black woman.
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