{"id":5854,"date":"2011-04-21T14:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2011-04-21T14:07:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:07:31","slug":"tyler-perry-tells-spike-lee-to-%e2%80%98go-straight-to-hell%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5854","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Perry Tells Spike Lee To \u2018Go Straight To Hell\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like Tyler Perry<\/strong> has had it up to here with the criticism. In a Tuesday press conference in Beverly Hills, CA, the director, writer, and actor fired back at his critics, particularly fellow Black filmmaker Spike Lee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Spike<\/strong> can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, \u2018this is a coon, this is a buffoon.’ I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: \u2018you vote by what you see,’ as if black people don’t know what they want to see.”<\/p>\n

“I am sick of him – he talked about Whoopi<\/strong>, he talked about Oprah<\/strong>, he talked about me, he talked about Clint Eastwood<\/strong>. Spike<\/strong> needs to shut the hell up!”<\/p>\n

Perry<\/strong> is one of the most successful Black directors in Hollywood history.<\/p>\n

Yet, the filmmaker is often times criticized for stereotypical Black characters in his movies, most notable the gun-carrying, loud-mouthed character Madea<\/strong>, played by Tyler Perry<\/strong> in the popular Madea series.
\nSome critics have gone as far as to call his movies and plays a \u201cminstrel show\u201d and demeaning to Blacks.<\/p>\n

Still, Perry<\/strong> said he doesn’t understand why the majority of his criticism comes directly the Black community, when directors and actors of other races don’t face the same negative feedback from their own communities.<\/p>\n

I’ve never seen Jewish people attack Seinfeld <\/strong>and say “this is a stereotype,” I’ve never seen Italian people attack ‘The Sopranos,’<\/em><\/strong> I’ve never seen Jewish people complaining about ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’<\/em><\/strong> or Dustin Hoffman<\/strong> in ‘Tootsie.’ <\/em><\/strong>I never saw it. It’s always black people, and this is something that I cannot undo. Booker T. Washington <\/strong>and W.E.B. DuBois <\/strong>went through the exact same thing; Langston Hughes<\/strong> said that Zora Neale Hurston<\/strong>, the woman who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God, was a new version of the ‘darkie’ because she spoke in a southern dialect and a Southern tone. And I’m sick of it from us; we don’t have to worry about anybody else trying to destroy us and take shots because we do it to ourselves.”<\/p>\n

Perry<\/strong> continued to express his frustrations saying, “So me being frustrated with it, and then they go on to say that people of other ethnic groups or white people don’t go see my movies, and that’s all a lie. I’m standing on stage looking at thousands of people, thousands of faces, with every race represented, and I’m tired of it. I’m tired of just laying down, tired of just being nice and letting them say whatever they want to say however they want to say it without people knowing what the intent really is.”<\/p>\n

Tyler Perry’s<\/strong> latest film ‘Madea’s Big Happy Family,’<\/em><\/strong> opens nationwide in theaters this Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems like Tyler Perry has had it up to here with the criticism. In a Tuesday press conference in Beverly Hills, CA, the director, writer, and actor fired back at his critics, particularly fellow Black filmmaker Spike Lee. “Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking […]<\/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-5854","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\/5854","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=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}