Black men and latinas in the movies

[estrogirl]

Hi all,
I'm new to the forum (a friend told me you guys have a lot of good discussions here so I thought I'd try it out). But I figured I'd jump right in and start a thread about something I've been thinking about.

Has anyone else noticed that more and more movies these days are casting latinas (and usually not the afro-latinas) as the romantic leads for black men? I noticed it with Denzel's last movie (although you could throw Training Day in there too) and I just saw a commercial for some new movie called Honey, with Jessica Alba and Mekhi Phifer that implies their characters are having some kind of romance. And these are just a couple of examples.

Now, I'm not at all hating on our Latina sisters ( i personally think movie execs do this to try to rope in both the black and latin audience) but I'm wondering what this means for black actresses, and also, if this is going to diminish our chances of seeing black love on the big screen even more?

What do yall think?