On Rickey Smiley Morning Show, there was a discussion about Spike Lee calling out Tyler Perry on his reliance on using coonish characters in his films and on his television shows. Many hypothesized that Spike is coming from a jealous place and should've broached such matters on the q.t.
On the q.t.?
Really?
Was this the consensus of opinion when Spike called out Clint Eastwood about his myopic takes on WWII? Or is this desire for privacy only applicable when the person on the receiving end is a male person of color?
Rickey Smiley is a pretty schizophrenic figure/wannabe leader of the Black community. He takes umbrage to discourse between two grown men, but continues to pick on African children who are adopted by White people. Actually, he picks on the children's hair. Actually, he picks on the female children's hair, since he believes that all little Black girls should wear yellow barrettes at all times. It continues to boggle my mind that young Black male children can wear their hair in afros, but when female Black children do, they are accused of having uncombed hair that looks like a sheep's @$$.
Dude has a serious issue with females. He stopped short of blaming Rihanna for Chris Brown's self-inflicted legal woes. He insulted Jennifer Hudson's sister when news broke that she was pregnant. Instead of offering congratulations, especially since this woman lost her son, mother, and brother less than a year ago, he insulted her appearance, questioning, out loud, what kind of man would sleep with her. He insulted Beyonce just this morning, saying that the moment Beyonce gets pregnant, her career will be over, blaming her hips and build. And let's not get into his incessant compulsion to interrupt Ebony whenever she does her news segment with his riffs and unfunny platitudes. Rock T and Headcrack don't get interrupted nearly as often as Ebony.
Rickey's persistence in carrying on antequated attitudes about women and what should be the focus of the current civil rights movement (read: the continued powdering of Black male @$$) make me tune out whenever he tries to be Tom Joyner. When Rickey does the comedy bits, his show is absolutely worth listening to; but when he weighs in on matters of self-image, especially those of Black women, he doesn't help anything. He just makes things significantly worse.
And for the record... Tyler Perry absolutely resorts to coonery to distract from his storytelling shortcomings. But Perry's biggest offense is that despite all of the opportunities he was given, his writing hasn't improved a jot, nor does Perry seem interested in stepping up his game as long as he gets steady checks and prestige due to his box office results.
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