I've never seen any of the High School Musical movies, nor am I particularly interested, but with the Disney marketing monster set on overdrive for the third installment of this franchise, I've noticed something interesting through the merchandise and advertising: the six leads in these films seem to be paired up by skin color.
First, we've got the black guy paired up with the black girl. Next, we see the blond pasty white couple. Finally, we have the Hispanic girl gettin' cozy with the white boy who has brown hair and a tan.
Wow, thanks for that, Disney. With the exceedingly absurd popularity of this series, you really had a chance to include a message to the impressionable youth of America that you don't have to look EXACTLY like someone else in order to date them. But I guess it was easier for you this way. Now you have a veritable rainbow of skin tones. A nice, organized, borderline racist rainbow.
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