Comments on: For Colored Girls and the Demonization of African American Men…

By: Marque Anthony

Marque Anthony — Sun, 17 May 2015 23:51:17 +0000

I am a writer on this site and a family and relationship counselor, mediator and life coach. My personal and professional opinion is that Tyler Perry has been bought and paid for. His films are low quality but funny. The point is more of who is laughing at us instead of with us as Perry continues to promote the emasculation of black men. He is a traitor and we should look behind the laughs to see the damage he is doing. WAKE UP PEOPLE

By: toomanygrandkids

toomanygrandkids — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:12:53 +0000

It’s been awhile since I watched this movie, but I do remember some of it. As with many of his movies and plays, there are things that happen and things that are said that I don’t like at all. But even I can’t deny that these things don’t happen in real life because they do. Boyce, I get the feeling that you don’t recognize nor do you want others to realize that negativity Tyler portrays in his movies and plays really does exist within the black race. Are you gonna deny that black males kill their children/babies? Do you dare say that there’s no such thing as down low dudes? It’s reality, bro. All of us know for a fact that, yes indeed, there are upstanding and outstanding black men who are also portrayed in Tyler’s movies and plays. But you must want Tyler to show only positive images of black men. That’s not reality, bro. You know it. We know it. The world knows it. Hell, even Tyler knows it. We are NOT a perfect race of people where everything in our lives is just fine and dandy.

You and this article remind me of the black folks who aren’t capable of viewing certain aspects of black life on television.

By: Deeann D. Mathews

Deeann D. Mathews — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 05:15:15 +0000

The weariness I feel when reading this article comes from just wondering why we keep on looking at mainstream media to find positive images of ourselves … not in 400 years has that been a good source. At this point, a better use of the energy we spend fussing over mainstream representations of us might be for us to make, distribute, and support our own movies — seriously.

By: steph

steph — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:18:16 +0000

I didn’t see the movie yet. But we can question, why it has to be a light skinned brother, I am talking about Harper who has a good heart in the movie? It is not the first time that I hear this. A movie that I never saw because I boycott it is Precious. People raised this question: Why the light skinned social worker Mariah Carey was one of the few good characters in the movie?

By: william

william — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:02:47 +0000

lol. I agree with your thoughts about this movie.. I’m a 22 year old clrd man and i watched this movie with my sister and i was in shock at how there isn’t one good male in that movie (the cop doesnt count). And these comments attacking this article is just amazingly idiotic. I mean theres nothing wrong with a story about the trails and tribulations of black women but it’s just so one sided it’s not even funny.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:11:58 +0000

Some of the rationale is past idiotic.”Black men should do better”? Are you kidding? One could make every Black female in movies a hooker or abusive mom and say that’s truth.

By: Giosincere

Giosincere — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:07:06 +0000

Amen!!!
A sequel will be great!!
And Sapphire made a great suggestion for
you to share your voice..
or for other black men to share
their stories and stop wishing and hopin
that Tyler Perry or other mainstream blacks
would do for us.

Peace and Love always.

By: Tonya

Tonya — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:58:36 +0000

I have not seen the movie yet so I really can’t provide a meaningful comment about the movie BUT as far as this site goes, I am so tired of reading blogs about Tyler Perry and how he bashes the black male. Please show me one movie where there was not also a representation of a good black male in one of his movies. He tends to show both sides. The more I read articles on this site, the more I am convinced that this site is just another representation of how black people aim to bring other black people down in order to gain a moment of fame. This may only be my opinion but in my eyes, you are doing much worse for our race. Instead of bashing that man for no good reason, find a way to lift our people up. Please find new writers for this site….maybe some who actually want to lift up our people instead of bringing them down. So many other people who “really” do harm to our race and yet Tyler seems to be the favorite topic. Pathetic.

With Love,

Educated black female tired of black men hating on the success of other black men.

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:59:51 +0000

First of all Dr. Boyce, Tyler only went off of the writings and poems of author/poet Ntozake Shanges, award winning book and stage play. What you find offensive about the film is not Tyler Perrys doing and most certainly Ms. Shanges writings are not far from being the truth. In her eyes and the eyes of millions of other women of color as well as all women who have dealt with hurt, rape, fear, abandonment, manipulation and betrayal, among other things by “some” man in their life that they’ve dealt with. It’s fine that these types of films are being made, and if you haven’t noticed, it’s not Tyler or Ms. Shange’s who is making black men look bad, it’s the black men themselves. I suggest you take a look at the film again and you’ll see that there was a meaning by the film, and that film was that each of those women had dealings with a man at some point in their lives felt hurt. It also serves you to know that the police officer played by Hil Harper was in a meaningful relationship with one of the women and Mr. Perry put him in there to show that the film was not about bashing men. I think that those who find this film a mess are short several brain cells if you can believe that all black men are this way, just because one film portrays them in a certain way. Forever black men have been portrayed as pimps, womanizers, abusers, drug and alcohol, gangsters etc., and if any one man who is good in his mind, body and spirit, can take what a film or book or even someones perception of what a black man is and feel threatened by his own self worth, then it just goes to show their not a man at all. My suggestion to you is, you go see the film and look at what the meaning behind the film is, and learn to not do what these women in the film had to endure to your woman and you won’t feel that this film is what you call Demonization of the African American Man. Use this film as a tool to make your woman/wife/girlfriend or whatever you get into happy and not use it as some kind of escape from the truth….because if you felt it was demonizing to you, then it’s probably because it his a nerve in you behavior towards some woman you dated or been with. Get over yourself and get over this whining about the bashing of black men. If you feel you’re being bashed then write a damn screen play get up the money and have it made into a film and tell your side. Other than that, just shut the hell up.

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:11:43 +0000

Dr. Boyce,

Here we go again with your slanted POV on others!

“”I wonder what I would think if I were a non-black person watching this film to get a sense of what happens in the African American community. Well, first I’d conclude that most black women are well-balanced, fair and emotionally giving to men who simply don’t deserve it. I would then think that a small percentage of black men have the capacity to do good things, but that most of them will steal from you, deceive you, rape you, cheat on you and do all they can to provide irreversible and unthinkable pain to those who love them the most. I can just hear one of the white women in the theater saying, “Those poor black women. Why in the world do they remain loyal to those horrible men?””

I wonder why we have to always go to WHAT WHITE PEOPLE WILL THINK ABOUT US?”
What does others think about WHITES when they go and see films that do not portray white men/women in a perfect light? Come on now!!! Are we that shallow, and are we really that non thinking as a people to believe that ALL black men are no good?

Dr. Boyce should feel ashamed to even suggest that we are so stupid!

The concept was taken from an original work written by a BLACK woman! Tyler Perry’s adaptation was based on how he saw her words, his experience, and his knowledge of what goes on in this society today, not only among BLACK men but human beings in general!

Does every BLACK film have to be about Slavery or poor down~trodden black folk, and seeing Danny Glover shuffling up the road in his tired old beat up boots to be acceptable?

Mr. Boyce needs to step into the real word and understand that WE have many stories. Some of positive and some are negative.All stem from some type of truth!

In trying to make a name for himself in the “commentary”/”bloggers” world so he can be featured on CNN and other news programs to discuss
BLACK issues, Mr. Boyce seriously misses the mark, and tries to write anything that will “rile up the Negro’s” so to speak.

We have a serious problem with some of us and we ALL know that! We need to address issues and bring them to the light! It is not about what WHITE people think, it is about whom we are, and how we become better. There are other human beings on the planet besides white people!

No matter what black folks do there will be others out here that can’t wait to pull them down. And these are usually the ones who have contributed nothing! If you don’t like certain films then don’t go and see them! What is the problem? Keep on doing your thing, and keep it moving!

The majority of Black men are loving, caring, responsible fathers, grandfathers, brothers, husbands and friends. They work, and are educated in every field known to man, and have made positive contributions to the world. If you think that a film (that is basically for entertainment) will sway Black people and others to see us as a negative people, then we are in SERIOUS trouble!

BTW, Dr. Boyce, since you look forward to the day when Black men have a voice, why not move on YOUR story/concept?

Put in the work and struggle that it takes to go from an idea in your head to the big screen!