JUST CURIOUS: Are British Filmgoers Racist?
From HuffingtonPost.com:
Universal changed “Couples Retreat” marketing material for the film’s UK release, and removed the black actors from both the poster’s photo and the list of stars typed out.
The film, which features four couples who go on vacation together, costars Faizon Love as a divorced man who takes his new girlfriend along, played by Kali Hawk.
Below are the UK (left) and the US (right) poster.
The Mail on Sunday reports:
The studio said it regretted causing offence and has abandoned plans to use the revised poster in other countries… A Universal spokesman said the revised advert aimed ‘to simplify the poster to actors who are most recognisable in international markets’.
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1_cool_6ft_9_brutha11-28-2009 10:19 am
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ruff7511-27-2009 9:45 pm
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AfricanSpeech11-23-2009 10:55 am
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Dopegurlmagic1711-22-2009 11:49 pm
« Previous 1 2 3 4@ruff75: ei i feel u bruh…europeans love black americans…I felt stress free out here too and they love the fact that im also black americans…but when it comes to black british on another black british they treat each other just as bad. The blacks are segregated from each other..they could be like oh i dont f**k with dude cuz he nigerian or i dont f**k with dude cuz he jamaican…plus the white europeans dont respect the black europeans either…if they get any sistas modeling they go to the light skinned or mixed raced sistas…Id say the mentality is a lil similar to ours but in their part..no one seems to try act on it and they just sit down there and accept it
I know this for a fact THAT ALL OF EUROPE LOVES BLACK PEOPLE!!!! I don’t care what anybody says. I lived in Germany for 4 years and every where I went there was a smiling face when they look at an American you can get that in no America!! Only if you’re famous!!!!Yes America has more Black business or actors Athletes and all ETC but look how f**k institutionalized this f**king Country is? Black people still f**king off each other still playing the crabs in the bucket game catering to White Americans for favor and trying to destroy you, I live this life daily when my OWN BLACK PEOPLE try to screw me.I was in europe and i was never stressed on a daily basis like I am now! And we still have a Racism problem too amongst all of that too. America has problems man, and it does date back too slavery. Not only that but they put Aids out here and Drugs to destroy people’s lives you can see America is more Racist.
UK racism is on the same level or even more than the US one… It’s just more covert in some areas and overt in other areas… If you don’y believe it, try and watch TV or any shows or try and find any businesses in UK and count the number of black people and minorities you can find… In america you have black politicians, police officers, lawyers, judges, film stars, companies, etc. Good luck trying to find that in the UK… If you watch UK TV you wouldn’t even know black people who are educated or successful exist…
how is UK more racist than America? did you not know that UK abolished slavery before America? did you not know that it was UK’s influence that made Abraham Lincoln sign the act that freed slaves… duh!!!!