[BLOG] USA Today Says Best Man Holiday is “Race-Themed”…WHAT?
As of today USA Today has cleaned up their headline that cited that the film ‘Best Man Holiday’ was race themed after a series of backlash against the company via twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets. Despite “cleaning up” the headline, I still find an extremely huge issue with the fact that it was published to begin with.
First of all what in the hell does the film have to do with race? Which elements of the film lead them to believe that this was racially themed and that it was appropriate to make that claim when its CLEAR as day that the film has nothing to do with race.
The cast of the film is indeed African-American as is the director but the last time I checked the film was a romantic comedy. NOT raced themed. So is a film featuring a black cast is automatically classified as a black film or race themed? Do we consider “The Notebook” a white film or romance? What about other films that feature a white cast like Scream or Being John Malkovich, are they horror and comedy-fantasy or are they “white films”? Makes you think, right?
Its ridiculous and a slap in the face to the actors and creators of the film to be thrown in a color box instead of in a film genre because of their race. USA Today should be ashamed of themselves and whoever wrote the article should re-watch the film without their colored glasses on and maybe a decent description of the film can be produced on their part.