In advance of its cinematic release, I have just one thing to plead to the Black Community...

BOYCOTT

THIS

MOVIE.

Opposition Mounts to 50 Cent Movie -Posters for(fabricated biopic) Get Rich or Die Tryin' show 50 Cent holding a gun in his left hand and a microphone the other.



Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich wrote to Paramount Pictures urging them to take down the posters.
The company said it had taken down one poster near a Los Angeles nursery school, and planned to remove more.
Mr Antonovich sent a letter to Paramount chairman Brad Grey asking him to remove the billboards, starting with one outside a school in Altadena, a suburb north of Los Angeles. "This billboard conveys to the students a disturbing message actively promoting gun violence, criminal behaviour and gang affiliation," he wrote.
Activists in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Hyde Park - an area affected by gang violence - staged a rally earlier in the week calling on Paramount to remove a billboard next to the pre-school - the sign was taken down the next day

A grass-roots (or more accurately a street-pavement) campaign is now spreading across the USA to promote a boycott of the upcoming 50 Cent movie.
Following the vehement opposition to the placement of the film's billboards in Los Angeles, 21 billboards have now also been removed from the city of Philadelphia.
"The message could be 'rob to get rich,'" Bilal Qayyum of Men United for a Better Philadelphia told The Associated Press. "It's a very offensive message that is part of a mindset that says you can solve problems with violence."
Men United targeted the protest at billboard owners Clear Channel Outdoor, whereas Los Angeles protesters went after Paramount Pictures.
Clear Channel, hearing the strong negative reaction from Philadelphia groups, agreed to remove those billboards from the city.
Of the protests in Los Angeles, 50 told Reuters with typical ignorance: "I don't have a problem with [taking down billboards]. At the end of the day, those kids are going to see the film."

On Saturday, the New York Daily News reported that a similar campaign has been launched in Brooklyn -- not only against the billboard ads but against the film itself. City Councilwoman Letitia James said that it appears to her that the message of the movie is basically, "Do whatever you can to get ahead and advance yourself -- even if it includes violence." The "singer/actor's" yet again typically ignorant response to the latest developments of the controversy was, "I do appreciate it. ... They are helping me out." Yet what the pathetically ignorant Curtis '50cent' Jackson ironically fails to realise is that his actions are NOT helping his own people out. Everytime he opens his mouth or has his picture plastered on TV or print media, he sets the Black Race back years of achievement, advancement and progression. Gannett columnist Deborah Mathis, writing on the BlackAmericaWeb website, commented that films like Get Rich "create the illusion of young black men with power, when all they really have is weaponry. With their glocks and their snarls, it's fear they engender, not respect."


50 Cent: Yet another moronic traitor to the Black Community that glamorizes the gangster lifestyle and violence. Even the title of his "movie" is problematic. Sadly, 50 Cent is seen as a role model to a large segment of the youth population, and that regrettably includes my little Brother Jamie...