>>4. the state of black film does not begin and end with
>tyler
>>perry anymore than white folks shit begin and end with kevin
>>smith. why behave like it does? that's what i don't
>>understand.
>
>Kevin Smith is one of thousands of white filmmakers of note.
>
>Tyler Perry is one of a handful of black filmmakers of note.
>Perry has a much greater weight and proportional significance
>in the discussion of blacks in the movie business, for better
>or worse.

absolute garbage. spike, gray, fuqua, lemmons, singleton, hughes bros, hudlins, wayans, the van peebles, etc. do not and should not have to answer to the creative decisions of tyler perry...EXCEPT in the minds of scaredy cat ass nigga who let themselves get boxed into that type of thinking.