...am I the only black person here who thinks that the backlash to this is way worse than the clearly harmless, over-the-top proposal? She was taking pictures of him...pretty sure he realized immediately that this wasn't real.

She's not white.

this is pretty fucked up but i love how all of you guys assume you know exactly how he feels about what happened. "LOOK AT HIS PAINED SMILE" "OMG THAT SMILE IS SO FORCED HE IS SO HUMILIATED POOR THING!" so fucking patronizing and condescending.

I agree that it might not have been the most tasteful promposal ever, but I doubt she thought about it as a race thing when she was planning it. It's a pretty classic prank and if he didn't have a problem with it I really don't think it was that bad.