Brian White Says The Racial Stereotypes Of Black Women Are Actually True. Especially Tyler Perry’s
Actor Brian WHITE recently interviewed with Hello Beautiful and gave his thoughts on the racial sterotypes that are placed upon black women in America. Mr. White says that black women are exactly the way they are portrayed in movies and that the audience should not be upset because directors like Tyler Perry and shows like Housewives of Atlanta and Love & Hip Hop are only giving black audiences what they want, considering those are the shows blacks support.
What is your insight on the Spike Lee vs. Tyler Perry beef? Why do you think people hate Tyler Perry so much?
Because Tyler holds a mirror up to people. Stereotypes are not stereotypes today. The most popular character [in, Why Did I Get Married?], and it’s not the one that Tyler picked as the most popular, is Tasha! You have Janet Jackson and Jill Scott; my point is Jill Scott and Janet are huge music stars with huge fan bases, Tasha became the most popular because her character is portrayed the most like “Love & Hip Hop” the most like, “Desperate Housewives of Atlanta,” [we think he means "Housewives Of Atlanta] you might as well switch it around and pop in Nene [Leaks]. [Tasha Smith] is brilliant, she’s nothing like the character, she’s just portraying what she sees in society, magnified.[sic]
And people get mad and say that’s not us. Yes it is, turn on “Love & Hip Hop” and turn on “Desperate Housewives Of Atlanta” those are “reality shows.” You can’t call something reality then get mad when it shows up in the movies as reality but that’s what we’re doing. That’s where the cycle continues. They don’t do that in Africa, they don’t do that in France; they don’t connect with that message.
What’s interesting is we, here, in America connect with that message and get upset at it. That’s what Tyler sees. If you look at Spike, what is his most successful movie ever? successful defined by how much money it made versus how much it cost to make. “Inside Man” and the stars were Clive Owens, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Denzel Washington and Jodi Foster… Four huge actors, two white, one known–Denzel and then another amazing British actor people don’t know here. That is not the type of film that Spike necessarily wants to focus on, right? So what makes money isn’t what Spike makes, so it’s upsetting and frustrating–I would assume. But, what Tyler makes, does make.
And you can believe that Mr. White meant every bit of that.. For he did marry a non black woman of Argentianian descent.
Another one bites the dust.
I’m sure Taye Diggs will co-sign on this..
In my opinion as a black woman I don’t think anyone can say something is the only thing that black people respond to. True blacks do seem to LOVE the new reality shows where black women have basically become the new minstrel show. But at the same time blacks are very limited as to the choices of programs they have to see themselves on tv and the big screen. The choices are so narrow that anyone who comes up with anything that in anyway resembles the average black woman or black person black people instantly love it.
Take the show Oz for example. It was a great show. Who knows if that is how prison really is but YES it did help further mold outsiders perceptions of prison life. The Wire was also a GREAT show. One of my favorites. Somehow people know the WIRE is not real at all and just acting and entertaining.. But when you put a label of reality on something that changes the game. THAT is the problem. People think these reality shows are real when in actuality they are just as scripted as any other show.
So in general the problem is not anyone but the people who are just not that bright.. There are people who are not that bright in every race, so unfortunately everyone perceives these black reality shows as the actual way a common black woman would act.
Lastly one can split apart and talk about these shows but how many would turn the chance of money and fame down? Ron Artests ex wife Kimsha Artest actually QUIT The Basketball Wives L.A. because she wanted no parts of the foolery..
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This negro looks like he’s just a hop, skip and a jump away from being a homosexual. Who is he again???……………. EXACTLY!!! NOBODY!!!! BOOM!!!
Well, just because he married a woman outside of his culture does not mean hea he can’t speak on the foolishness going on in our community, t.v. Shows etc. Black women do tend to make themseves look foolish in every day life with the excessive hair, nails, five babies and five babie daddies and don’t say it we already know know white women do it too. I’m talking about black women white women are not my concern. When the cat fighting behjavior stop, you become more resaponsible to who you lay with and procreate with black men will conti ue to be indifferent to you and continue to use and discard you for women that have respect for themselves. Tyler Perry can only be as succefull as we give to him. With that said it is obvious that women recognize and appreciate the way women are portrayed in his films because women are his biggest comsumers.