[shiftyj]

Gen X from the American midwest, almost south. It doesn't do anything one way or another for me. But, just from being raised with the constant low grade background noise of racism, the first time I saw the genre it did cause a little dissonance. A bit of 'hey, that's not right,' followed immediately by, 'whoa, where the hell did that thought come from?'

I noticed the unconscious reaction immediately and it bothered me (because no one believes they're racist themselves!) so I did some soul searching. No one ever flat out told me white women shouldn't be with black men. I vaguely remember my grandmother (b1900) tut-tutting "ohh, would you look at that!" when seeing a 'mixed' couple in public. I discovered I'd somehow internalized a disgust reaction- that there was something wrong with white women who dated black men, and vice versa the men were going above their station. Discovering I had that unconscious reaction pissed me off, and I think once I took the feeling out and looked at it, I was able to exorcise it by watching for it because there was no rational basis for it.

And now 28(!) years into looking at porn on the internet I could take it or leave it, depends on the scene & the actors. But I think I can see how someone who had stronger feelings along those lines could fetishize it as degrading to either the actress or the viewer.