Tyler Perry's new movie took black people back 50 years. And I seem to be the only one that's royally pissed off about it.
Sure, I'm mad I spent $8 and 2 hours of my life that I will NEVER get back. And sure, I'm perterbed that in 2008, I have been exposed to a minstrel show with actual black people dancing around in black face. Indeed, I'm annoyed that it already grossed $33 million and it probably cost $3 million and a lot of destroyed careers to produce. But what I'm MOST pissed about is that I haven't heard ANYONE protesting, speaking, or marching about all the negative stereotypes, ignorant perpetuations, and flat out EMBARASSMENT Meet the Browns has caused the entire black community.
It took me a week and a half to recover from all the damage that movie did to my psyche and self worth as a black person, just to be able to write this blog that should have been written the minute I got home from RUNNING--not walking-- away from that movie. I couldn't get away fast enough and back to my home-- a place where black people are educated, full of pride and dignity, represent black people in a positive and intelligent way, and are likewise disgusted by the muzings of directors who will do anything-- including sell his soul to the devil-- for a box office hit. Tyler Perry, you disappoint me. Angela Bassett, what were you thinking? How do you go from Tina Turner to hood rat chick? Eat the cake, Anna Mae. Desgraciada.
Speaking of which, as if it weren't bad enough to destroy the entire black race with this movie, Tyler Perry had to go add in a ghetto, loud-mouthed, weed-smoking, violent, slorefully dressed LATINA hood rat that surely exemplifies everything I embody as a latin woman, as well. Thanks, Tyler. I appreciate how you've maken a mockery of everything that I am and displayed it for all the white people who happen stumble across your movie that we indeed are everything they think of us... and worse. Awesome job, queer (sorry, it slipped).
Black people need a manual. I'd be happy to write it in my tons of spare time that I do not have. I will call it "What black people do and do not need to be pissed the f*%& off about and other shit that may set us back from all the strides we've made away from the centuries of humiliation and oppression to which we were subjected, and also, why it's more of a disgrace for a BLACK person to do anything listed in this book than for a white person because white people don't know no better but we sure as hell DO!!!" Copyright on that title.
Why is it that Don Imus (his ass was wrong, also) can't call black women nappy headed hos, but Tyler Perry, who knows better, can have a scene in his movie where they go through a list of women and describe the TYPE of ho they were, ending with the characters' own MOTHER, calling her a nasty ho? And furthermore, why was I the only person in the theatre NOT laughing at that scene?
If a white person directed a movie about a ghetto black woman with three kids from three different dead beats, one of which is abusive, who finds out her own dead beat pimp/deacon father dies, and goes to BF Georgia for a funeral in which ignorant black people are actin' a damn fool IN church, all while her basketball-playin', dope-slingin' son gets whored by white agents and signs to the pros straight out of high school and buys a Cadillac Escalade with his newfound money and gets his family out the ghetto. Oh, and throw in a scene with an old woman in a high speed chase in Dekalb County, throwing bags of weed out the window and assaulting an officer, WHAT?!?!?! This country would have a fit. Even white people would be mad about that shit. They'd be like, damnit, after all the time I spend at work trying to convince black people that I'm not racist, I'm gonna have to start from square one after they see that movie.
So why the HELL is it okay for a black person to disgrace the black race, but no one else can?? F* that. It's NOT OKAY. We need a manual so black people would learn after the first time someone pulled this shit, that it is not acceptable. Especially coming from someone who has made so many strides in the RIGHT direction of portraying black Americans in a different and positive light. Why erase all the work you've done? Tranny (sorry, slipped again).
I'm pissed. And you should be, too. If you're black, DO NOT waste your money or time being offended by that whore of a movie, and spread the word FAST. If you're white, :::sigh:::, I'm sorry. I apologize for every EXTRA that participated in creating that catastrophe. Please don't think that movie represents the views and behavior of all, or even some black people. Just pretend they were all white people wearing black (or brown) face, because that's the ONLY way I walked out of that movie without committing suicide.
As for you, Tyler Perry. Shame on you.
In the meantime, I'll work on that manual...
