Despite this country not “truly arriving” yet, we have made much progress in terms of the improvements of race relations.  We’ve had the civil rights movement, and of course we got President Obama now too.

However, it seems white people have yet to embrace Tyler Perry.  Having never seen a Tyler Perry TV show or film before, I consider myself part of the problem.   Maybe if I would actually make the effort and go see a Tyler Perry movie in the theater, I’d be pleasantly surprised by seeing more white people in the theater than expected.

I just feel like most white people I know aren’t anti-Tyler Perry per se, but just haven’t made the effort to check out his work.  Friend/Co-worker Dan Shott suggested as white people, we ease our way into it.   He suggested a gathering of white people for a viewing party of really any Tyler Perry film.

Viewing this viewing party could turn out to be one of the most hilarious things ever in itself.  The hypocritical nature of the whole scenario just intrigues me.  It’s not often when you can embrace black culture and at the same time practice segregation.