Tyler Perry Donates $1M To NAACP

From NAACP.org:
Washington, DC (November 23, 2009) – The NAACP, the country’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, announced today that acclaimed film director Tyler Perry has donated one million dollars, marking the largest gift ever given by an individual entertainer. In addition, 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 exemplifies an unyielding commitment to uplifting and bringing hope to the disenfranchised and those less fortunate,” stated Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP, “Both in his films and in his life, he reflects an impressive ethos of caring and conscientiousness. We are deeply grateful for his support.”
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« Previous 1 2 3For all u Azz backward people, this a black man donating money that he is drowned in to help his community. Now where is the problem? And yes the NAACP do stand up for black rights. I have seen them several times in Tallahassee, FL and in a small town outside of Tally named Perry, FL where Rev. Al Sharpton joined them. For you ingnorant no hope for the future mofos.
LOL, and they ain’t gonna do **** with it, but. . .divvy it among themselves.
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Davettalashley, ONCE AGAIN darling you are right. It is a sad state of affairs out here. MOST PEOPLE recognize the “problem” but rarely contribute to the solution (smh). It is so easy to say what a person should or should not be doing with THEIR MONEY but you have to ask yourself when was the last time YOU volunteered in your community, YOU gave back to someone less fortunate, YOU made a charitable donation etc. etc??? At this phase, Tyler Perry can throw himself in front of a stray bullet to save someones life and people will still find a reason to criticize it. We can be our own worst enemy sometime and the s#!t is sickening. If you don’t like him you don’t like him but all of this is unnecessary & COUNTERPRODUCTIVE!!! So to answer your last question…life is indeed a b***h!!!
I am actually starting to feel sorry for Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama.
Imagine that you’re a proud strong intelligent black person and you fight THE MAN all your life to get to a position in life where you can actually do some good for black folks and then you have to deal with BLACK FOLKS that are walking around talking sh*t about you and judging you.
Then they all sit around and whine about how nobody does anything to help them. Ain’t life a b***h? *shakes head*
This media deplored mass manipulation program is made possible because the media form for us our image of the world and essentially everything we know—or think we know—about events outside our own neighborhood or circle of acquaintances comes to us via our daily newspaper, our weekly news magazine, our radio, or our television. By employing carefully developed psychological techniques, the mass media guide our thoughts and opinions. The way in which the news is covered: which point of views are emphasized and which are played down; the phrasing of headlines; the choice of words, pictures, and illustrations—all of these things subliminally and yet profoundly affect the way in which we interpret what we see or hear. The media tell us which side of an issue that we should favor, forms our images of various groups of people. Even our images of ourselves are greatly influenced by what media shows us about our own group. Given these factor the media has been used for decades by government elites to manipulate public opinion and to socially engineer society towards governmental objectives.
The U.S. Government has an extensive history of using the media to conduct mass propaganda manipulation programs to influence the perception of its citizens to meet its governmental objectives. Given that the nineteen sixties were a period of massive black rebellion and unrest that eroded the American global image and increasingly placed the nation’s peace and stability in dire jeopardy and perhaps most particularly because the nations top sociologist and psychologist knew that those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. This quite logically necessitated that the U.S. Government employ these same proven methods of mass psychological manipulation against its entire African American population– Its greatest civil rights organizers, protestors, and fighters of white institutionalized racism as a means of maintaining its white dominance and control.
Not only does this massive governmental psychological manipulation campaign negatively impacts Blacks self perceptions, but it also provides a more socially acceptable way to exploit and suppressed African Americans. Its deplorable imageries of Black Americans also to create a shift of victimization that changes the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. Therefore engendering prejudiced distorted perceptions and acrimonious beliefs about African Americans that are designed to makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to their plight, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf, lessens pressure for social change on their behalf, and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today. Therefore fostering a national setting of where in which Blacks are more easily exploited and ultimately consensually suppressed.
It creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has subconsciously become that it’s all now justified. When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the fiercest and most effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated under the belief that it is justified. This is what America’s mass propaganda specialist Dr. Edward Bernays referred to as “engineering consent”.
Our Responsibility
Once we Black people come to recognize this psychosocial treatment of us, it is our inescapable responsibility to do whatever is necessary to break this control. We must shrink from nothing in combating this evil power that has fastened its deadly grip on our people and is injecting its lethal poison into our people’s minds and souls. If our race fails to destroy it, it certainly will destroy our race.
Those are the facts of how Black people are being manipulated by media control in America. We must not remain silent on this most important of issues. The white elite’s control of the American mass media is the single most important fact of life, not just in America, but in the whole world today. There is nothing more dangerous to the future of our people.
By permitting the white elites to continue their total control of our news and entertainment media we are doing more than merely giving them a decisive influence on our communities; we also are giving them virtual control of the minds and souls of our children, whose attitudes and ideas are shaped more by white controlled television and films than by parents, schools, or any other influence.
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LOL…@ some of these simple-minded negros…negros with less power than an ant, but want to throw your criticism to do nothing but further DIVIDE black folks…
in some realms of reality, negros, if you don’t possess the wisdom to say something meaningful…just stay the phuck quiet. smoke a blunt or sip some syrup…or whatever that nonsense you usually do to occupy the emptiness you call your brain…
madd props to Mr. Perry for “investing” in the Black community, and for caring for black folks. you have gone far beyond the scope of giving and you should be congratulated…
wow – I”m glad he did it, this organization has helped many ppl I know and have read of. I’m sorry 2 find out it’s the largest donation by an entertainer – smh!
Whatever
THe NAACP hasnt done anything to uplift black people..its run and owned by the JEWS, and Julian Bond is the biggest uncle Tom sellout that we have..Bedsides OBAMA….(now he really sold us out). I wouldnt give two cent to the NAACP..Tyler Perry is a slave and a GAY MAN. It looks good when a negro give his money away to a cause that was set up to pacify blackpeople into thinking that our former slavemasters really care…….
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