Tyler Perry Calls Out Hollywood Studios at BET Awards: “This Is Not the Time to Be Silent”

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1. >Before Ledisi took the stage to perform “BLKWMN,” the Sistas creator took time to share a short story about himself and his son walking along the beach, when his child said to him, “I’m walking in your footsteps,” to which he responded, “I said, ‘No, let’s walk together.’ We walked to the end of the beach and then he looked back and he saw all the footprints that he had left.”

   >“I say that to you tonight because I wanna talk to you about this thing that is happening in this country and I want you to pay attention to it. Don’t miss this,” Perry said. “They are removing our books from libraries, they are removing our stories and our history, they are removing our names from government buildings. It’s as if someone wants to erase our footprints.”

   >The mogul added, “But the truth of the matter, it’s impossible to erase our footprints because we left them on water. What I mean by that is, we were snatched from our homeland, brought across the ocean and left footprints all the way to America.”

   >Perry asserted that “this is not the time to be silent, this is not the time to give up — this is the time to dig in and keep leaving footprints everywhere you go.” The Madea’s Family Reunion writer then called out studios in Los Angeles.

2. Yeah because we all love politics in our entertainment. Movies are supposed to be an escape not remind us of shitty things happening

3. I mean, yeah. We should stand together.

   Tyler Perry should also pay fair wages on his productions for cast and crew.

4. He should probably learn what a 2nd, 3rd, maybe even a 7th draft is before he even talks.

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