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'Dismissed Because Of My Blackness': Faizon Love Sues Universal Over Racial Discrimination
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2:17Now PlayingActor Faizon Love filed a lawsuit against Universal accusing the company of race discrimination. The company cut him out of a poster for the 2009 film Couples Retreat. He and his co star Kali Hawk play the only non-white couple in the film.
The lawsuit accuses universal of fraud, breach of contract and violation of California's fair employment act and civil rights law.
Universal claimed it would discontinue the use of the poster, however according to the lawsuit the image is still being used to market the film abroad and among bilingual audiences in the U.S.
Love says he's filing this suit on behalf of all black actors who have been mistreated in the industry. He added "They have not only hurt me financially, they have hurt me in a deeper way by dismissing me because of my Blackness -- and they have hurt all Black performers by continuing to perpetuate racism in the movie industry."
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