UPDATE: There are some gawking about the validity of this post. First of all, it seems many of you are more upset over what you call trivial, but are silent on other issues. Anyway, let’s leave it at that. Nevertheless, It seems Sony announced they never planned to release this movie in France, thus it couldn’t be banned. However, perhaps…just perhaps the reason for this decision is because it wouldn’t be received well or rejected, thus being the same as banned to many.

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Unfortunately, it seems obvious that France keeps digging its reputation hypocritically on racial matters. It has been a total shock to the international community to find out how France reacted in a cynical racist fashion towards Steve Harvey’s ‘Think Like a Man’ film debut by banning it altogether. The French state recently turned down the film excusing that they follow a sociopolitical strategy that favors interracial couples instead of communities. Apparently Steve Harvey’s film doesn’t fit that criterion, for it’s focused on black couples lives.

It is quite an interesting argument considering that Kristen (Gabrielle Union) and Jeremy’s (Jerry Ferrara) couple in the film isn’t only interracial, but also part of the main cast of couples in Steve Harvey’s movie. It seems pretty ironic that they didn’t fit the country’s unspoken racial quota.

Unfortunately, Steve Harvey’s film was not the only contemporary black movie banned from French theaters. Entertainer and producer Tyler Perry’s movies are also never listed nor scheduled, mainly releasing them in DVD form, even though he has been used to leading the US box-office as with For Coloured Girls’ and Why Did I Get Married’.

It is obvious that the French society is reacting with zeal and hypocrisy by refusing to show movies from successful black producers who make millions sharing an important message to black and white communities. It is said that passed the racist undertone of the ban, the French don’t believe that a film with an all-black cast should or can lead the box office.

This reminds us of the same assumptions that were made here in the US before the movie kicked The Hunger Games out of its #1 run after 4 weeks in a row, bringing in double the revenue that originally was expected. If Tyler Perry’s success and films didn’t change anything in the inadequate and racially unequal French system, it seems unlikely that Steve Harvey’s Think Like a Man’ will either.

True, this was back in 2012 when all of this went down…….

Buuuuuuuuuuuut, many in the black community were quick to jump on the bandwagon of supporting everyone else’s pain and struggles before our own. Many flocked to the opportunity to fly French flags as their profile pictures to ‘Pray for France’, but it is evident even moreso today they don’t give a flying FREAK about black people, black culture or even black celebrities.

I mean, their stance on not paying Haiti reparations for the damage they did to those people, nor even give them back access to all their natural resources was the major sign for us, but apparently that doesn’t mean anything to the people STILL flying their flag.

What about us and our issues?