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Tyler Perry is a popular film director known for his popular Madea plays and his movies. His movies surround the lives of mainly Black women, having trouble with their counterpart(s), and they ultimately seek help from this “Madea” character. Madea stems from the Mammy, an overweight, loud expressive Black caricature from Minstrel Shows. Yes, Tyler Perry may be Black but he is still underrepresenting his race because he is misrepresenting them. Sure, if you look at the bigger picture, Perry’s work may be debated as positive but if it is positive, why aren’t his characters shown in a positive way. According to Pehl’s article, Latinos in the Media, “There are simply too few players in this game to create new positive ideas and eliminate old negative ones.” Perry continues to make these movies that project Blacks in a negative light because people, time after time, keep supporting these types of films. Hopefully, not all of the Spike Lee’s have died out and there is hope for positive Black film.
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