Spike Lee Compares Tyler Perry 2 Amos & Andy

I HEART Spike Lee, he's an incredible filmmaker. Somebody needs 2 speak up when our people are cooning. The brotha gets @ Tyler Perry, who could use a sentence of not leaving the house wothout blackface painting 4 the next year…I was so embarrased @ that last movie "Madea Goes 2 Jail" which I took my mother 2 see cause I had determined she needed a laff and this movie would do the trick..NOT!!. Spike Lee should just make a movie called "Madea gets Assasinated" Has any1 noticed we have'nt seen a black DRAMA on TV in since .."NEVER"..we're casted as only comedians and Jokers...smdh, anyway.. here’s what Spike had to say: “We’ve had this discussion back and forth. When John Singleton [made 'Boyz in the Hood'], people came out to see it. But when he did ‘Rosewood,’ nobody showed up. So a lot of this is on us! You vote with your pocketbook, your wallet. You vote with your time sitting in front of the idiot box, and [Tyler Perry] has a huge audience. We shouldn’t think that Tyler Perry is going to make the same film that I am going to make, or that John Singleton or my cousin Malcolm Lee [would make]. As African-Americans, we’re not one monolithic group, so there is room for all of that. But at the same time, for me, the imaging is troubling and it harkens back to ‘Amos n’ Andy.’” “Each artist should be allowed to pursue their artistic endeavors, but I still think there is a lot of stuff out today that is coonery and buffoonery. I know it’s making a lot of money and breaking records, but we can do better. … I am a huge basketball fan, and when I watch the games on TNT, I see these two ads for these two shows (Tyler Perry’s “Meet the Browns” and “House of Payne”), and I am scratching my head. We got a black president, and we going back to Mantan Moreland and Sleep ‘n’ Eat? Is Spike “A HATER” or telling the truth when others won't??? newsone