Michel Martin, at NPR's Tell me More blog, rounds up the latest, mentioning this article at The Washington Post entitled 'For black men who have considered homicide after watching another Tyler Perry movie', which begins:
Can anyone name a movie that came out recently starring a black man who wasn't a sociopath? Someone who had a terrific screen presence, like a young Paul Robeson? And he portrayed a character who was complex and fully drawn? Did he respect black women, too?
Anybody see that movie? I didn't. But surely it's out there somewhere, right? An alternative to those Tyler Perry films portraying black men as Satan's gift to black women? But where is it?
There's a lot of this going around. This at HuffPo by Bassey Ikpi,'I think his films lack nuance and subtlety and reinforce stereotypes in order to deliver specific messages.' There was this from Lee Hill, 'The last thing I wanted (or needed) to see was another film that painted the black man as society's stammering uber-demon...'
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