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The Switcheroo: The Back Up Plan Fails ... But What About the Babies?

Ian Wang Sep 20, 2011 10:00 AM

It's almost 2012, yet there are still hardly any minorities in leading roles in Hollywood movies. Tired of waiting for the studios to show us an America true to its real racial composition, the Switcheroo reimagines the world of movies as if that moment had already come.

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The Maid's Wedding Dance in Manhattan Back Up Planner
In The Back Up Plan, Jennifer Lopez romances another Perfect White Bachelor while pregnant via artificial insemination. We've seen her in the same role in Maid in Manhattan, The Wedding Planner, and Shall We Dance -- what's the takeaway here? That Hollywood is stubbornly averse to depicting multiracial relationships.

Worst of all, Lopez's artificially fertilized twins are revealed to be powder-white and red-haired. Given who the mother is, this image strikes us as an act of blatant racial favoritism.