There is no love lost between Tyler Perry and Spike Lee, and now Tyler Perry has had enough.
Tyler Perry is sounding off about Spike Lee, who referred to Perry’s hit movies as “coonery and buffoonery” and that it “harkens back to Amos n’ Andy.”
When asked about Lee’s remarks at a press conference for the next Madea movie, Perry absolutely lost his mind.
“I’m so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee. Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, ‘This is a coon, this is a buffoon.’ I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: ‘You vote by what you see,’ as if black people don’t know what they want to see. I am sick of him — he talked about Whoopi, he talked about Oprah, he talked about me, he talked about Clint Eastwood. Spike needs to shut the hell up! I’ve never seen Jewish people attack Seinfeld and say, ‘This is a stereotype.’
“I’ve never seen Italian people attack The Sopranos [side note: Uh, actually they do], I’ve never seen Jewish people complaining about Mrs. Doubtfire or Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie. I never saw it.
“It’s always black people, and this is something that I cannot undo. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois went through the exact same thing; Langston Hughes said that Zora Neale Hurston, the woman who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God, was a new version of the ‘darkie’ because she spoke in a Southern dialect and a Southern tone. And I’m sick of it from us; we don’t have to worry about anybody else trying to destroy us and take shots because we do it to ourselves.”
So they probably won’t be sitting together at any Knicks games then?
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