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

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.

Mainstream black cinema past the mid 90's should be banned EVERYWHERE
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niccas shouldn't be mad that they're banning bull!!, should be mad they're making bull!!

Mainstream black cinema past the mid 90's should be banned EVERYWHERE
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niccas shouldn't be mad that they're banning bull!!, should be mad they're making bull!!

So because culture influences some people to be attracted to black people, you support the decision that Think Like A Man shouldn't be played in France.

BX is full of !!ing retards, I swear.

Its not just france the U.S does the same thing.These crackaz know we are better than them at just about everything and have taken over just about everything.Film is the last thing they can hold on to. We have better president,better at sports,!! their women better than them,Better at music,with the exception of this year(adele) And i think she is is overrated as well. Dont like her music and dont see what the hype is about and even she stole a soul sound from us. These Pigs are the scum of the earth.I can understand why Malcon X said you can never trust a white man,they are pure evil.

Sure ban black movies,but allow Dominique Strass Khan to[..] 100's of women and keep his job.!! France and !! Whites.

what about the two white guys?

How is this hip hop..mods please move

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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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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

I'm saying its smart and beneficial to Central/Northern/Western Europe since they allow so many foreigners into their nations. Their ethnic bloodline is going to become over dominated by others. Why should they allow that? they aint North America.. They aint the free world. They are old nations w/ a real sense of ethnic national identity, unlike America or Canada which is meant for everyone.

I think France is trying to prevent itself from becoming America, thats all.. I don't know if "Think like a man" is necessarily the best example lmao but you get my point. If they allow one, then they have to allow the rest. It's better to keep a firm stance I guess. Maybe i'm wrong, but it sort of makes sense

Its not just france the U.S does the same thing.These crackaz know we are better than them at just about everything and have taken over just about everything.Film is the last thing they can hold on to. We have better president,better at sports,!! their women better than them,Better at music,with the exception of this year(adele) And i think she is is overrated as well. Dont like her music and dont see what the hype is about and even she stole a soul sound from us. These Pigs are the scum of the earth.I can understand why Malcon X said you can never trust a white man,they are pure evil.

Sure ban black movies,but allow Dominique Strass Khan to[..] 100's of women and keep his job.Have say so in your government.!! France and !! Whites.

that's bull!!

these "old world" european nations spent the better half of the last few centuries going around the world, invading every populated land in the world, putting their flags down and raping not only their resources and natural wealth but their peoples independece and cultural soverignty as well

miss me with that cultural preservation bull!!...france or spain or england or portugal damn sure didn't give a !! about cultural preservation when they stormed through the "new worlds" with bibles and swords, drawing borders and making up areas of sovereign rule.

The problems of the "third world" are all borne from the aftereffects and trauma of colonial domination...the poor huddled masses from former french colonial states taking refuge in france now and "threatening" their cultural homogeneity are poor and huddled because of the very actions that gave france their power

chickens come home to roost

I agree theres nothing a racist white man hate more than a white women with a black man

Its not just france the U.S does the same thing.These crackaz know we are better than them at just about everything and have taken over just about everything.Film is the last thing they can hold on to. We have better president,better at sports,!! their women better than them,Better at music,with the exception of this year(adele) And i think she is is overrated as well. Dont like her music and dont see what the hype is about and even she stole a soul sound from us. These Pigs are the scum of the earth.I can understand why Malcon X said you can never trust a white man,they are pure evil.

Sure ban black movies,but allow Dominique Strass Khan to[..] 100's of women and keep his job.Have say so in your government.!! France and !! Whites.