The following is my response to all of the hateration being thrown at Tyler Perry. Someone suggested the tv show "Meet the Browns", Produced by Perry, is "cooning" at its best and that watching the show made you ashamed to be an "African American", a term I dislike to begin with for a myriad of reasons, but I digress. Here's my uncut response to the facebook comment:
I happen to think Meet the Brown's is funny as heck. It's "one" of my fave tv shows. Now, if you want to talk about the real things that should make us cringe...talk about the wide spread down low syndrome and the alarming rate of HIV & AIDS in our community as a result. Be ashamed of the condition of our people as a whole and the ignorance that runs amuck. Be disgraced by the crime and the pathology of criminal behavior that permeates Black men of all socioeconomic levels. Lower your head in shame as we fail to keep up intellectually and economically with whites, reds and browns. Be ashamed of our children who lack discipline, proper parental guidiance and a future that looks bleek. Be bashful about us not even having the decency to open our mouths and speak to one another. Be upset about us being the only species on the planet that refuses to do business with our community. Hide your face knowing that we are always looking to get over, get a hook up or take a short cut in every aspect of our lives. How can you be proud of any damn thing going on in the Black community as a whole other than the few exceptions to the rule. Be outraged that the only thing you see on tv is the same regurgitated Black Actors who boot lick and cow tow their way through Hollywood. How about being appalled at the lack of a wide spread massive Black Hollywood where various perspectives including Tyler Perry's can be widely express. Be pissed at yourself for not spending 80% of your disposable income in the Black community especially living in the Black mecca (Atlanta) which I've watched become a black mess over the last decade.Tyler Perry employs Black people in mass. Tyler Perry hires and gives consistent high paying opportunities to Black above the line and below the line talent unlike anyone else in America including my girl Oprah. Tyler Perry is one man. One perspective and does a lot of good. If his characters makes anyone hold their head down in shame then the joke is really on that person. Obviously you know there is some disgraceful truth staring you right in the face. Otherwise we could freely laugh at ourselves like all other cultures and races do. But because coonery is synonymous to much of which we know is black, we have reason to be concerned. But I digress. What you "gone do" about these truths.....complain then go back to scratching our asses and concerning ourselves with trying to get mines. Dr.King is rolling over in his grave knowing he died for us (then we consciously decide that the back of the bus is more comfortable). That the bottom of the crab barrel is safer. That the bottom of academics, science, medicine, global wealth is more preferred. We have succeeded at failing as a race of people and everyone wants to blame the next negroe instead of taking responsibility for our individual contribution in this madness. See Mr.Brown, Cora, Will, Sasha, Ms.Edna and the Colonel are real.. too damn real....so real that the shit is funny. Gotta laugh to keep from crying. 
