They need to picket him. I've watched his movies (can't stand the tv shows), so I don't have the dislike that you do, but he needs, to paraphrase some scripture for the Christian, to give the worker his wages.  How long does he think he can keep dogging people out and have quality people work for him?  I mean, anyone with half a brain can tell when someone else has helped to significantly shape his product by the increase in quality.  He'll see when he and the unskilled writers he'll end up with get shuttered off the tv because they SUCK!

I apologize for the Palin-esque repetition. I've gone cold turkey on caffeine, and my brain is revolting.  I miss my coffee I-V.

WOW!  I am sooooo disgusted!  Tyler Perry is a fraud!    I am NEVER supporting another Tyler Perry film again...NEVER!

This is an absolute disgrace, Keith.  EVERYONE needs to know about this.  And why would he treat his own people this way...why?  Karma is going to be a reeeeeeeeal pain in the a$$ for this man.  Believe it!

Tyler Perry is a new millenium Stephen Fetchit.  

This is awful. I'm glad the writers are going public with this news and I'm even more relieved to hear that I'm not the only one who think Perry's movies are awful and actually do a disservice to black folks.

I am a union person.  So Tyler gets no love for not being a decent employer.  No medical and dental benefits for his employees is no less than immoral.  He has made too much money not to provide properly for the people who helped him to earn his wealth.  Perhaps he needs to be reminded that God does not like ugly ways!

They should picket him and they should have at it to earn their worth.  

Glad I never got into the Perry hype... his stuff doesn't float my boat.

Can't stand "our people" who believe in exploiting their workers.  Not the first time and sadly not the last.  Thanks for keeping us infomed!

never liked dude. one good movie out of a handful, very distasteful and boring plays (i will never pay that much money for a nap again).

to be honest, I would have fired that writing staff as well. Then again, his writing is horrible so he may be rewriting his own stuff anyway.

but I am pro union. that's wack... another reason not to like him.

Thanks for calling Mr. Perry out for being the greedy, self-serving elitist that he has become. I know that he has a sad sob, rags-to-riches story. He pulled himself up by his own bootstraps (without the help of the community he loves to proselytize to-yeah right). However, the moment he crossed the line and assumed that he didn't have to pay decent wages and benefits to the very people who just want to make an honest living, Mr. Perry is fair game to those who see him for the person he really is.

I understand Mr. Perry tools around Hollywood in a Bentley.  That's not very Christian unless you believe in so-called prosperity Christianity, which is a contradiction in terms.

normally i'd feel sorry for those writers but if they wrote that garbage perry calls art then they deserve whatever happens to them. i dont know what black women see in this stuff but it's some of the most mind numbingly retarded "entertainment" in history. it's as if a mad scientist wanted to create the world's most powerful weapons by blending the worst of BET and Lifetime Television for women and named it "Madea".

WOW I had no idea. I found a few of his films funny but I always had to ignore the religious overtones in them to get to the comedy.  What he is doing to his staff is no laughing matter. It is simply wrong to exploit people the way he is doing. I hope that he gets sued and losses huge.

Thanks for sharing.  I have had mixed feelings about Perry's work.  At best Ican say it is C/D grade entertainment that we all indulge in at times.  I think we do even more so since there is litte out there now that tells our story.  He also gives black actors work.  I appreciate that.  

At worst, his is exploiting us.  I especially find fault with his character Medea.  She/he is demeaning to the black family with the message that violence and threats is what we need for our children.  It feeds into the general societal view that we are out of control and must be handled with an iron hand.

This issue with the writers certainly adds to understanding that Perry is about exploitation of us and of our culture.  We as black folks to boycott his work until he can demonstrate true Christian values starting with paying his writers what they are due by law and by human decency.

I don't care, people have problems with their jobs everyday

I never liked Tyler Perry's movies and now I especially don't like them.

from GORMAKK1804:If this story is TRUE, then TYLER PERRY should be sent STRAIGHT to the GALLOWS POLE(no kidding).SHAME on HIM for  so IMPROPERLY acting wirh the VERY PEOPLE who made his FAME and FORTUNE.THUMBS UP!!to LAMONT FERELL and and all those WRITERS who so BOLDLY accepted to take the FIGHT with such a DICTATOR.Again SHAME on you TYLER PERRY.

Tyler Perry entertainment is nothing more that modern minstrelsy. They are coon shows for the 21st century.  And it is his writers that make it all possible.  

So why should I give a d@mn that this exploiter and degrader of black folks won't pay the pimps he hires to write this garbage an upper middle class wage?  Am I supposed to sympathize with the black men who write this cr@p?

Picketing Tyler Perry to get more money for his writers is like picketing a whorehouse to get the madam to pay her prostitutes union scale. If I don't want pimps and prostitutes in my neighborhood (and I really, really don't) , why would I spend my time picketing to get them better money?

Whose side are you on, anyway?  Those of us who are sick of the TP garbage, or the people who pimp it to us?

Wow. Thanks for giving us the scoop. The public needs to know this!!! Kudos.

I normally do not comment, but this time, I felt as I must.  The writer of this blog expresses his opinon and that his alone.  How do we know his sources are valid about what Tyler Perry is being accused of?  Everyone has taken these statements as facts.  The truth is somewhere between what someone says vs what the other person says.  

Secondly, alot of these posts are downing the movies the movies Typer Perry makes with Madea, but you go anyway.  No one here said Spike's charactters in School Daze, or Do the Right Thing were stero types.  I bet half of you have a copy of Schol Daze, Big Momma's House, etc.  Someone please tell me what the difference is in Martin doing Big Momma and Tyler Perry doing Madea?  

Look folks, something going to be wrong with something.  Whether its' Tyler Perry, Oprah, etc.  If Obama gets elected, someone is going to find fault with him.  Take the good with the bad and make the best of it.  

Okay, at the risk of getting my ass verbally whooped on this blog...while I'm disgusted with TP not paying for his employee's health insurance...I love the character of Madea!

The character reminds me of my mother and both my grandmothers.  They didn't take sh*t from me.  

Bad conduct in school/home/anywhere, was not acceptable.  Disrespect of ANY kind...sucking teeth, rolling eyes, not looking them in the eye when they spoke to me, trying to get my two cents in while they were talking, butting into grown folks talk, was not acceptable.  BOTH would warrant an ass whooping.

I'll always remember the time I was blowing bubbles in my chocolate milk with my Krazy Straw...Grandma had bought me one when I was visiting.  Anyway I'm blowing bubbles, and she very nicely asked me to stop, that it was impolite.  

I blew.

She asked me nicely again.

I blew.

She backhanded me upside the head, said, as calmly as you please, "I asked you to stop...maybe now you'll stop".

Ask me if I blew another bubble at the table...ever.

Hmmm...and the time I dared to turn my back on my mother when she was talking to me about my attitude (I was 13 and thought I was grown).  She asked me to turn around...I feigned temporary deafness.

She snatched my ass out of my chair, slapped me, and said, "Don't you EVER disrespect me like that again".

Ask me if I ever turned my back on my mother.

Almost forgot my male cousin, who thought he could talk ugly to my aunt...and his father took his ass out in the backyard, and commenced to beating his ass like he was a grown man, for disrespecting his mother.  Trust...he watched his mouth from that point on.

Now...before anyone starts hollering child abuse, let me ask this question:  How many times was Grandma supposed to ask me to stop blowing bubbles before I stopped...and how many times was my mother supposed to ask me to turn around and look at her while she talked?  And...did anyone notice those bad assed kids (Madea's Family Reunion)?  Miss Thang popping gum...AFTER Madea asked her repeatedly to STOP??  Homeboy talking smack on the bus??  Girlfriend still on the phone AFTER Madea asked her 2-3 times to hang up the phone?

Let's keep it real...sometimes children need more than a talking to and a time out...they need their asses BEAT!

The problem with us (black people) is that we listen to white folks too damn much when it comes to disciplining our children...white people with a psychology degree on their wall...but who have never had/raised a child or children.  The '90's was the age of the "time out" phenomenon.  And black folks bought into that nonsense.

Can anyone guess why this new generation of teenagers, particularly our young black men, are so out of control?  Lack of a father plays a role...but plenty of single women back in the day raised sons on their own, and they turned out fine...because they weren't afraid to love them enough to bust that ass when it needed busting.

I thank the women in my life (Dad and Granddads did the soothing after the beatdown) for busting my ass when I needed it.  They taught me discipline and respect...by any means necessary.

My husband and I are raising our sons the same way.  

Sorry, didn't mean to get off the subject...carry on...

RLMOSS12...

Thanks for your comment, but check it out:  I've ADMITTED to not liking the Tyler Perry franchise.  But I have friends who have worked for him as actors or writers. He employs and that's a good thing, for starters.  But he's making a mint and his actors work long, long hours and his writers are not getting standard benefits. You can check out the WGA website for more support to my opinions.  I worked with one of the writers who was recently fired by Perry. I called him before I wrote this post to get the REAL DEAL. I'm not sure why he would lie. He's a husband and father and home owner. He has a lot riding on having a full time job.

Yes, people find fault with many things. People find fault with me. But being black doesn't excuse you from criticism.  I didn't call Perry any unsavory names. I pointed out that he's greedy and not respecting the work and time of his writers. And that's a shame.

Thanks for the feedback, Keith.  Keep grinding.....

Its always "what they do" until one of us get in the same position and then you starte hearing the same things out of their mouths that you were hearing from them. Oj was real black too until he got some dough and got around some other folks. Tylre released some message today to "Let people experience the openning with me" WHAT a fraud and his claims of who he could invite ring hollow. he had room for all of the "Celebrities" that he admired there and i understand wanting their support but you MUST take care of the people who toil in your basements with you. Hes another example of someone crossing the tracks and acting like they were never on the other side. I find it funny that he made sure to build his studio in Atl where its full of black folks who work for less and on the whole have less education than he would find in LA " where he building his mansion" or NY where he could never afford to do. (BTW im not hating on ATL. i was educated there and own property, but the populace is not very educated on the whole), He get props on one hand because he will provide jobs, but its also the place that will cost him the least. Lets see if he holds any opennings there. Its a shame, but its not like we havent seen this before. Like when people talk smack about the prices of urban clothing, to turn around and charged just as much while saying " well if you will pay for the white mans jeans, why not mine" or when an Athlete says shoes cost too much then next thing you know hes talking about some BS exclusive shoe that hes charging $200 bones for (big up to Steph and to a lessers extent Grant hill,and Shaq and L.L. who bucked the trend) but weve been seen this before and we will see it again. America has floated this image and mantra that once you have some money in your sights, GET IT BY ANY MEANS. Cheat, be cheap, hide it, go to court, fire people, make them film 7 shows a day, whatever you have to do to get it and keep it and Tyler is going there. we have lost any sense of good in man and good for man that we once had. People should have been crucifying Oprah for flying her dogs in private jets and all of that, but we fall for it and let it go, hoping that if we get the chance (and most people still think theirs is coming) that people will turn a bling eye to us too. We have become much too passive in the face of money and lost our ways and our abilities to truthfully talk about right and wrong. "By any means " is one of the most perverted phrases ever and we keep letting people, and ourselves get away with things that we ALL know , JUST AINT RIGHT. THE ONE THING MR MADEA SHOULD KNOW IT RIGHT FROM WRONG, CORRECT?

Id like to add that i am not singling out Atlanta on the education front as most of our youngsters are lagging  in education all over the country. What i was trying to point out is that Atlanta is a non union state and the populous is not protected by and therefor not educated on unions and things of the like. Tyler has based much of what he does in Atlanta and i appluad him for building there and basing something as historic as he is in the city, However, if he plans to practice what he appears to be practicing with his employees, than Atlanta is a great place to do it. I cannot help but feel there could be a huge opportunity to employ many, but exploit them at the same time.

I was never a fan of his work but I always felt atleast he was giving black actors and writers a fair chance at something.  Knowing now that he's not even doing that makes supporting him on any level out of the question.  How much money does one person need to be content.    These men start out not paying on that level because they can't afford it, then when they can afford to take care of their people they don't want to do it because they are not use to spending the money.  

But when it all comes down to it I can understand how big bill feels....most of his art is buffoonery anyway.  I know everyone needs a good laugh now and then but his stuff is ridiculous.  This generation is so dreadful they even have to dumb down comedy to get their support.  I'm glad  brilliant cats like Richard Pryor and Redd Fox were not of this generation....their brand of comedy would have never been accepted now.

Ok, First of all Perry needs to be grateful for evething he got. Its shows how some blacks people  are once they get some money they become uppity.  They all of a sudden forget about people. And for who ever said that his shows suck will so does everything else he makes. I mean his movies and the story lines are always so cheesy and over the top. Real black people don't act like that. I think he should have stuck with the stage cause that is when he was at his best.

Patra,

I was raised by parents who believed in whipping.  However, I don’t recall ever getting a whipping from my mother and I only really remember two whippings as a kid from my dad.

As an adult I don’t believe in whipping.  I think if you teach a child from day one in an age appropriate manner as they grow, and exemplify yourself the principles of love, respect, compassion, accountability, self-assurance, so on, whipping isn’t necessary to teach a child.

My perspective on whipping was also affected by the book “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.”  Among other things, the book talks about how slave era methods of discipline have carried over into mainstream black culture.  The language we use regarding discipline is exhibit ‘A’ – “beating” – “whipping.”  I don’t know if black parents still do this, but at one time it was common to whip children with a “switch” (spindly tree limb with stinging affect of a whip).  If the adult wanted to kick it up a notch they’d take 3 limbs, braid them together and literally create a whip.  All this is very reminiscent of slave era disciplinary practices.

Children certainly must be taught and disciplined.  However, I think when a child is corrected it should be done in a manner that respects the dignity and humanity of the child.  I’m troubled by anybody backhanding someone or snatching someone by the collar of their shirt, particularly if it’s a youngster.

Madea works for me to the extent that I don’t take her seriously, that I know she is intentionally over the top in an almost cartoon-like fashion.

I hope you will re-examine your ideas about discipline.  I think there are better ways than use of force.

At least now I know have company in my experience of a spiritually allergic reaction that has recurred whenever I have strived to support and enjoy Mr Perry's works.    Enough of that.  I now know what not to do in the future.

The real gem for me in all this is the comment posted "By: Robin08 (October 16, 2008 at 7:14 PM)",  which referred to the "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome", which, ladies and gentlemen, is proving to be highly google-able territory.  Thank you!

I watched House of Payne and complained week by week on TBS about the horrific writing and acting on the show.  Tyler Perry has managed to pimp the minds of his followers just like a leader of any cult does.  The writing on that show was bad, but garbage workers are unionized and to this I say they should have been allowed to have benefits and unionize.  I agree about unionizing, but your storylines were horrible.  What are you going to list on your resumes?

Credits:  Writer of Buffoonery, Coonism professional, Elementary Negroidsim,

"I wrote the abousolute worst stories for the number one sitcom on cable", now pay me.  Please.  If you do win against Tyler Perry and I hope you do, you need to be funny and not disrespectful to your heritage.

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