Tyler Perry
The NAACP, the country’s oldest and largest civil rights organization also announced on their web site that Perry purchased several NAACP commissioned Jacob Lawrence lithographs and additional lithographs by celebrated artists Jonathan Green, Elizabeth Catlett and Sam Gilliam. The gift, which will be distributed over the next four years, was made to commemorate the organization’s Centennial anniversary.
“We are honored that Tyler Perry chose to support the NAACP,” said Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP. “Tyler is a courageous pioneer in bringing positive images of African American culture and struggles to the screen. His remarkable journey from poverty and childhood abuse to become one of the world’s most successful filmmakers and entrepreneurs is an inspiration to us all,” Bond said.
Tyler Perry was born Emmitt R. Perry, Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana. He changed his first name to Tyler because of his troubled relationship with his father. Tyler Perry has said that his father was physically and verbally abusive to him during his childhood, and that this contributed to his attempting suicide as a teenager.
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Struck By the Irony.
All of his movies and TV shows do everything to "clownify" and reinforce the sterotypes of blacks especially black men, so I find it extremwly ironic that he would donate money to an organization dedicated to the "Advancement" of colored people when all he does is hold us back.