{"id":10850,"date":"2011-10-24T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10850"},"modified":"2011-10-24T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:39:10","slug":"tyler-perry-honored-by-sharpton-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10850","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Perry Honored By Sharpton Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8212; <strong>Tyler Perry<\/strong> has gotten plenty of criticism from some who feel his popular movies don&#8217;t reflect well on the black community. But <strong>Al Sharpton<\/strong> says <strong>Perry&#8217;s<\/strong> critics are &#8220;proper Negroes&#8221; who don&#8217;t understand regular black folk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharpton&#8217;s<\/strong> National Action Network honored the filmmaker Wednesday night in New York City at its second annual Triumph Awards with its Chairman&#8217;s Award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharpton<\/strong> lauded the creator of movies including <em>Madea&#8217;s Family Reunion<\/em> and <em>Why Did I Get Married<\/em>, saying he &#8220;never lost his authenticity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perry<\/strong> said he was grateful for the honor, and chastised those who have criticized his characters as stereotypes. He said he has the &#8220;ear of the people&#8221; and his critics need to stop running from &#8220;our parents and our grandparents and our uncles.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Tyler Perry has gotten plenty of criticism from some who feel his popular movies don&#8217;t reflect well on the black community. But Al Sharpton says Perry&#8217;s critics are &#8220;proper Negroes&#8221; who don&#8217;t understand regular black folk. Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network honored the filmmaker Wednesday night in New York City at its second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}