France Bans The Release Of “Think Like A Man” Over Lack Of Diversity

You can’t be serious

“Think Like A Man,” the smash movie hit based off Steve Harvey’s book about relationships, has allegedly been banned in France because officials say the film is not “diverse” enough:

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.
Martinican blogger Bondamanjak is very cynical after this tainted victory, as he explains [fr] that Omar Sy’s award nomination did not come all naturally, but was rather due to the great number of viewers in theaters.

So we’re going to ignore the fact their are Caucasian characters in this film?

“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.”

Didn’t this same country just hold a Miss Black France pageant? Although, it should be noted that in incidents like this, it is the anti-immigrant sentiment held by some people in France. Instead of embracing a melting pot, some French people get concerned about their “national identity” and the changing definition of what it means to be French (i.e. white, Christian, etc.) This is just blatant racism in itself.