Comments on: The “Real Issues Fun Police” should arrive soon. http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/the-real-issues-fun-police-should-arrive-soon/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Yofi http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/the-real-issues-fun-police-should-arrive-soon/#comment-127 Yofi Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:00:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=1967#comment-127 In most of Tyler Perrys' films, there is a violent scene between Black men and women in a relationship. It perpetuates this notion that if Black people decide to date within their race, all parties involved better prepare for a fight, and one that could end your life. That is non-sense. What logical person would want to deal with all that? He has a hatred toward Black men, I believe, for what happened to him at the hands of his father and other men. While I weep for that and recognize he needs help, he also needs to recognize that Hollywood is using him to engineer a war between Black men an Black women that historically does no exist. Where is domestic violence throughout Black/African history? Show me. Where is rape throughout Black/African history? Show me. Where is child molestation throughout Black/African history? I ask you. Where in history have African men tried to suppress women or African women trying to suppress men from coming to power and being leaders in our homes, klans, villages and communities, without consent of the community first? These are learned behaviors from the people who claimed to bring civilization to Blacks/Africans. I am not denying that it happens now, but without proper examination, Tyler Perry leads us to believe that these portrayals are proclivous, germane and indigenous to Black/African people. That can not be supported by any documentation, prior to Black/African people's encounter with people who invaded their territory and militarily forced a change in behavior. In most of Tyler Perrys’ films, there is a violent scene between Black men and women in a relationship. It perpetuates this notion that if Black people decide to date within their race, all parties involved better prepare for a fight, and one that could end your life. That is non-sense. What logical person would want to deal with all that? He has a hatred toward Black men, I believe, for what happened to him at the hands of his father and other men. While I weep for that and recognize he needs help, he also needs to recognize that Hollywood is using him to engineer a war between Black men an Black women that historically does no exist.

Where is domestic violence throughout Black/African history? Show me. Where is rape throughout Black/African history? Show me. Where is child molestation throughout Black/African history? I ask you. Where in history have African men tried to suppress women or African women trying to suppress men from coming to power and being leaders in our homes, klans, villages and communities, without consent of the community first? These are learned behaviors from the people who claimed to bring civilization to Blacks/Africans.

I am not denying that it happens now, but without proper examination, Tyler Perry leads us to believe that these portrayals are proclivous, germane and indigenous to Black/African people. That can not be supported by any documentation, prior to Black/African people’s encounter with people who invaded their territory and militarily forced a change in behavior.

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