HawthoRNe Premiere Overshadowed Racial Issues

June 15th, 2011 - By Veronica Wells

For all the “HawthoRNe” fans out there, last night’s episode took no time jumping into the good stuff. The show started pretty and serene as a pregnant Christina walked down the aisle to her future husband, Tom (played by Michael Vartan). But the joyous occasion comes to a complete halt when a medical emergency interrupts the blissful day.

Christina and Tom part ways temporarily. Later Christina is talking to Tom on the phone as she’s walking through a dark parking lot. (You already know this is not a good look.) She’s brutally attacked and then rushed to the hospital where she eventually loses the baby.

To add insult to injury her friend, Candy has just given birth to a baby girl. (Candy names the baby Hope Christina Sullivan.)

Whew! That is a lot right?!? Definitely a way to grab people’s attention for the premiere.

This was more than enough to get some people talking this morning; but others were focused on an entirely different issue. While the show was riddled with drama, some are stuck on Christina’s groom, Tom.

Wondering why he’s not black.

Ladies and gentlemen of Madame Noire what do you think about Christina dating, marrying and having a child with a white man? Does it make you appreciate the show any less? Did TNT miss out on an opportunity to portray a successful black couple in love? Let us know what you think.

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  • http://facebook.com/Tenae Esg

    Who cares? People need to grow up and stop limiting themselves to black men. Successful black couple? LOL if her real life marriage isn't enough to portray that, then I don't know what will. There are so many "social taboos" that make people angry. Those same people should kill themselves. I like men of all colors, and I have never once stopped to look at it. We all bleed red.

  • LL Morgan

    I think it's beautiful. Any love that challenges borders is beautiful.

  • sedusa_83

    who cares anyway.???if i hear words like "black men did this…black man did that.." i swear i'm…. when exactly did they hinder black women to date outside of their race???huh??WHEN?. so what?! yes it's 2011, but you could have started this 50 years ago. i repeat NOBODY was hindering you!!!black women are always acting like they were held by chaines in a cave or something by the black men SMDH. whoever you choose to date it's your choise, keyword YOUR choise!!!the only one who are still moaning about the past and the black men dating becky, svetlana, min lu chan…are the african american women. while you are moaning, waiting, hopping, waisting your energy etc. the other black sisters in the world are MOVING on and living you behind!!!

    • AmbiVictoria

      Black women have been unionizing / marring interracially 50 years ago and plus. Even when it was illegal even fighting for our rights to do so. It's nothing new and still continues on.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia

      However, it was a black man on this forum who started bashing black women for marring interracially after reading this Hawthorne article. We (black women) only factually replied. So get it right before you criticize.

  • http://www.facebook.com/cocosilk Denise M Faraday

    Okay, so she married a vanilla fella. So what's the big deal? I can't believe some folks are still making a big deal of this. If black men can marry white women and it's socially acceptable, why can't black women do the same without the stigma attached. You can't help who you love and marry. It's 2011. Let's move on.

  • Mel

    Rumor has it, her romantic storyline with Marc Anthony's character might re-appear. Thoughts on that?

  • Guest

    We as black people need to stop looking so deep into a TV show. Thats all it is: two CHARACTERS who decided to get married. Now we have people saying "all black men are dating white women and black women dating white men." Really ALL black men are dating white women?

    It's amazing how we take a trend off TV and make it an alarming issue in the black community. It's just a tv show people. The black race isn't gonna crumble because Jada Pickett Smith married a white man on her tv show. Go read a book or something.

  • Pfft…

    I feel you, but what can we do? A whole lot of hurt flying around this place from both sides. Everyone's talking but no ones listening.

  • lovely

    like ERIC said up there, it's possible to love my dad but not like the black men of this current generation…

    • btowne

      YEAH HE DID HAVE A POINT, I GUESS WE CAN LOVE OUR BLACK FATHERS BUT CHOOSE TO MARRY OUTSIDE THE RACE AS WELL TO THEN.

  • ShoeQueen

    I looooove the two of them together. I think that he's good for her and she's definitely good for him…. And basically all that should matter…..

  • btowne

    Well put! Well said!

  • Guest

    OMG shut up you think black shows should do that but your also mad cuz white shows do the same thing. Newsflash black people make up 12% of the population which means shows are gonna show black people accordingly duh.

    i hate when black people whine about racism then counteract act it by saying we should be racist in return. It's TV they can cast who they want to cast black or white. and by the way you hardly hear asian complain about being under represented on television you know why? Because they realize its just entertainment. You seeing more black people on television increases your salary or better you real life how?

  • roe

    although i would have appreciated her being with a black male doctor. i dont thinks him being white is an issue its just a show. i dont understand why black girls always have to like white men on tv. We need to promote black love more.

    • Guest

      um how about love in general more race has nothing to do with it. all i see is lust on TV nowadays and it comes from all races. I don't care if it black man/ white woman black woman/ white man i just want to see love again like the cosbys not lust like the kardashians

  • Likewater4choc

    Ahh, it's always good to hear from IgnorantTruth…And it's always a black man looking to feed black women the "no man desires you or will marry you" line. I notice that I always get the " a white man with sleep with you, but not marry you" line from black men who have had black girlfriends for ages and have not married a single one. Black men are not marrying black women either. Oh, if it counts for anything, they will get us pregnant and not marry us. Of the last 5 engagements/marriages among black women I know, 100% of them have been to white men. Last weekend, my best friend married a white man and over the past six months, 2 have gotten married and ther other 2 engaged. These are numbers from those I know personally, not some study.

    • Cool Breeze

      Black people are the least desired–period. All those studies say the same thing. Interracial unions are the exception, not the norm. Love is where you find it but black folks will marry other black folks for the most part. The problem is that black people have gotten comfortable with shacking and out of wedlock pregnancies. I was a small boy in the late 1970's and my cousin Sarah got pregnant. She was 19. I clearly remember my grandfather, father and my uncle(Sarah's father) rounding up all the men in our family to go have a talk with the young man responsible to see if there needed to be plans made for a wedding or a funeral. Sarah and Mike are STILL married.

      • AmbiVictoria

        And black people–women are only least desired when we start to actually believe that we are. We each have our own path to follow as individuals. Choosing rightfully is the key. All that negative brainwashing of we are less desired-not good enough…etc..is nothing newly heard, even now it comes from various places from within our community. It was garbage then and we still pressed forward in life and it is still garbage now no matter who's mouth its coming out of, we shall not believe it and always press forward.

  • Eric McDaniel

    Nappy hair isn't a negative. Unkept hair is a negative. And as far as out of wedlock children goes, I don't know how it became all the man's fault that you let him inside of you unprotected minus a commitment via a wedding ring. How the hell did that switch occur?

    • lovely

      sorry that doesn't fly. of all the men who approach me black men are the least likely to want to wait 'till marriage to have sex. don't lie to the sisters.

    • BTOWNE

      I AM MARRIED. I WAS MARRIED WHEN I HAD MY 3 CHILDREN. I HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE AS WELL AS MY FOUR SISTERS WHO WERE MARRIED BEFORE THEY HAD THEIR CHILDREN. OUR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS ARE STILL LIVING AND MARRIED TO THIS DAY.

  • ANEMASHAUN BOMANI

    THIS IS SO WRONG!! WE DON;T LIVE IN A POST AMERICA AND THESE NON-RACIAL ROLES ARE NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!! SUPPORT BLACK LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS.

  • Templeton Beck Jr

    I agree with the educated brothers on here. Why is it everytime a black man is seen with a white woman he is a sell-out or a race traitor, but when a black woman does it, it because she has been hurt, abused and let down by black men. It seems there is always a good reason why she ended up with a white man but nobody ever asks about that brother that ended up with a white woman, so it is just completely insane to think maybe he has bad experiences with the black women he has dated??? Then when you get your white man, all you do is trash us black men, just because you made poor choices with the brothers you dated. Other races take this foolishness and label us all as being that way. Please lose the white is right mind-set, no good men come in all races, black men do not have a monoply on being no good.

    • btowne

      There are also educated sistahs speaking on this subject as well.

  • Eric McDaniel

    I'd bet that you see more than just black men with white women. That may be all that you pay attention to but I'm sure there are black women who meet and marry black men. I live in a small city where the "swirl" is in FULL EFFECT like anywhere I've been- everybody dates everybody. Male/ Female- Black, white, asian, everybody is goin' in and even I see a good healthy amount of black married couples. Haynesworth is the only one who said he didn't care for black women not Bush. Having dated interracially in the past (it's been over 10 years ladies and I married a black woman) and having meet men who date interacially, the same men that you call fat, ugly, corny, too black, "Carlton", and so on are the main ones who you hate on for dating interracially. The model Tyson Beckford is a prime example- he said he dated white women because black women wouldn't give him any play and called him black and ugly his whole life. Albert could be the same way- once upon a time he was a fat and ugly boy from South Carolina, now he's a fat, ugly man with $100 Million dollars. A white woman that can overlook fat and ugly to see his worth ($100 Million) is smart.

    • lovely

      funny how now that a black man is fat and ugly and didn't get play that you call it a bad thing. aren't you the same person who on another post was talking about how you were looking at the facebook photos of the women on here and you said they complaining because they don't get attention like 'prettier' women???

  • tyty
  • btowne

    Who cares about Albert Haynesworth. His mother is black. So is he putting her down to because she is black?

    • Eric McDaniel

      You can love your black mother while not wanting to date black women in your own age range. I think it's a fairly simple notion, however; many black women do not.

      • InnocentTruthIsBack

        Eric, you're talking a different language these women cannot understand. It's called logic.

  • btowne

    Mr. Daniel, the black man can date who he wants (white, latino, or whoever) and now the black woman is now jumping on board the ship to find happiness in other races. There's nothing wrong with that.

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