Think Like a Man’ Banned in France Due to All-Black Cast

http://uptownmagazine.com/2012/05/think-like-a-man-banned-in-france-due-to-all-black-cast/

Think Like a Man’ Banned in France Due to All-Black Cast
Monday May 21, 2012 – by Brande Victorian

France just keeps building on its reputation of hypocritical racial intolerance. Right on the heels of the controversy surrounding the Miss Black France pageant in Paris, news has come out that Steve Harvey’s highly successful film “Think Like a Man” has been banned in the country because of the lack of diversity in its cast. Global Voices exposed the issue rather pointedly, writing:

“Surprising as it may be, the answer lies in the fact that the film has an all-black cast. French cinema is often pointed at for not fairly displaying all components of the country’s multiethnic population. Although the recent success of the movie Les Intouchables, which earned French African actor Omar Sy the Cesar award for Best Actor in 2012, caused great pride and hope among French nationals from Africa and the Caribbean, it was not to be the turning point for a deep and lasting change.”

Much like the argument that the Miss Black France pageant was exclusionary in its celebration of black beauty, a note from the Facebook page of “Negro News” reposted on Martinican blog People Bo Kay, suggests that same thinking is at play with the ban on Harvey’s film.

“The French state has had a sociopolitical strategy which favors interracial relationships rather than valuing communities,” the post reads. “In the comedy ‘Think like a Man’, the focus is on black couples.”

Interesting that Gabrielle Union’s on-screen romance with Jerry Ferrara didn’t meet the country’s unspoken interracial quota. It seems the goal is to flip the script on the black community’s cries of disenfranchisement by arguing that all-black efforts do the same thing, without any regard for why such all-black projects exist. Steve Harvey isn’t the only black contemporary film that’s been banned either. The note also adds:

“Black actor and producer Tyler Perry’s movies are never scheduled in any French movie theaters or are only released in DVDs, even though he has been used to leading the US box-office, as with ‘Why did I get Married’ and ‘For Colored Girls’. The French society acts hypocritically, when it refuses to show movies from black producers who earn millions from conveying a positive message to the African diaspora through their films.”

Other bloggers suggest that beyond the racist undertone of the ban, the French people don’t believe that a movie with an all-black cast could actually lead the box office. That sounds awfully similar to expectations here in the U.S. before the film knocked The Hunger Games out of its four-week run at the #1 spot and brought in double the revenue that was expected. If the success of Tyler Perry’s movies hasn’t sparked a change in France’s thinking, it’s not likely “Think Like a Man” will either. Unfortunately, it seems films like Les Intouchables will continue to be outliers as long as the country keeps pushing for a more nationalist approach to country unity without acknowledging that all French people aren’t allotted the same freedom of expression.
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So it's okay when there is only one black person with a speaking role in a movie, but not when it's the opposite ?

[pic] Je deteste!!

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France and a lot of european countries with recent influxes of african and muslim immigrants are exposing how covertly racist they are over the past 10 years

Almost every movie in France should be banned if diversity is the case.

yeah from reading this i can tell

How does this make sense, the have movies with all white casts, none of those are banned.....

!! I am really starting to hate this world more and more as time goes by.

It's cool since Islam will nearly dominate Europe by 2050, France will see this at first hand.



Europe's low white birth rate plus the fast rate of multiplying migrants means none of this will matter soon.


But is Think Like a Man any good?

It was okay & funny at some points.

yeah i saw it and it hilarious [pic][pic]

so they gonna act like gary owens and turtle from entourage aren't in the cast?

kind of a smart idea to preserve their french white bloodline because media/television propagates certain images that would subconsciously affect the brain. It happened in North America and the U.K. and interracial couples are pretty high in comparison to a long time ago. The moment black people started appearing on T.V. / movies more, the more fascinated people became towards them especially white women towards black men, since black women were never portrayed as beautiful secks symbols due to the blonde b0mbshell era, but black men were seen as always being Big, strong, cool and hip which made people gravitate towards acting like black men and liking them. It's not like you see white girls trying to look like black girls. It's usually black girls trying to look like white girls. But for the most part, you see more white dudes acting like the black dudes they see on the t.v.

just an educated thought lol

ARE YOU CRAZY U MADE NO SENSE AT ALL [pic]

^this. black people don't get enough respect in film because people always think movies with all-black casts won't make enough profit. that's why it took so long for the movie Red Tails to be made because back then they didn't want a movie with an all-black cast. [pic] !! this world man...

it dont make no sense that's the problem

I'm saying television propogated images of the black male as being COOL/hip/rebellious etc and that made everyone very fascinated by them etc.. It's reality. Why you think all these white/chinese/brown/ latino kids using ebonics that black people started. Dressing the culture that black people initiated/started etc.. Yea call it "hiphop" as we do to make ourselves feel better, but the truth is, it was started by black people, specifically the black male. The black female has always gone underappreciated and flew over the radar in hollywood for the most part. Only as of late with women such as Beyonce and Halle Barry which both still look very mixed - since they are of mixed race. Full black women are rarely seen portrayed as beautiful or something to admire.

but they let jay and ye perform niccas in paris? !! outta here

I know, im sayin how can a country thats a US allie, do this in good conscience, thinking this !! is ok?
Like it !!in baffles me.