Tyler Perry Accepts Ultimate Icon Award at BET Awards 2019

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Tyler Perry accepts the Ultimate Icon Award and gives amazing speech on determination and reaching goals.

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[icetypejim]

Which are y'alls favorite Tyler Perry films? For me, it's a toss up between two:

-The one where a black woman contracts HIV as a punishment for not leaving her husband, who she knows is gay and sleeping with another man.

-The one where a black woman is sexually assaulted, but it's ok because it turns out she really did want it, and then contracts HIV as punishment for her infidelity.

[corgismiles]

Holy shit. I've only seen a few of his movies but the "I have an issue with black women" vibe was pretty strong in all of them.

[xtinkerbellax]

Temptation was so blatant in it's hatred of women.

[pikapika217]

Aren't both of those the same movie with Jurnee Smolett-Bell?!

[winterbam]

No its two different movies... The other one was with Janet Jackson.

[icetypejim]

Nope, two different movies. The first one was a film adaptation of "For Colored Girls..." in which he added the HIV story element entirely on his own, it not being present at all in the original source material.

[turtleisland]

He has two different movies where that happens...yikes.

[london_eclipse]

This really is YIKES cause I was about to comment that the OP was talking about the same movie lmao.

[hpxstac]

Omggg he did not add that BS to FCG! I didn't watch the movie when I found out he was behind it because I knew he was going to pull his usual shenanigans.

[winterbam]

I read this whole thing and was like?!?!?!

AND then realized you were being sarcastic.   Christ! His films are awful.

[bound2]

really fucking hated temptation

[bellwetherr]

this - the sinful woman gets punished scenario is ugly and tired

[fright_wig]

The one where a black woman is focused on her career, because that makes her a VERY BAD PERSON and deserving of any misfortune.

[la_petite_singe]

And gets properly ~shamed for it and goes to church at the end.