Posted on 04/26/2021 9:43:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
While some Hollywood celebrities used their acceptance speeches during the 93rd Academy Awards to disparage police, Tyler Perry’s went viral for a good reason.
Perry, who won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 93rd Academy Awards, used his time on stage to urge Americans to “refuse hate.”
"It is my hope that all of us would teach our kids … just refuse hate. Don't hate anybody," the actor and director said. "I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican, or because they are Black, or white, or LGBTQ. I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer. I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian. I would hope that we refuse hate.”
Perry, who was once homeless, also shared a touching story about an encounter he had with a homeless woman outside a studio. His first reaction was to go offer her some money, but that's not what she wanted.
He said he reached into his pocket and she said, "Excuse me, sir, do you have any shoes?"
He said the comment stopped him in his tracks because he remembered being homeless, with shoes bent inward at the heels. He said he took her into the studio and they were surrounded by boxes and racks of clothes and he remembered the woman looking down at her feet. He said when she looked up, she had tears in her eyes.
"She said, ‘Thank you, Jesus, my feet are off the ground,’" he said. He said he related to the woman because his mother grew up in a "Jim Crow South" in rural Louisiana and as a young woman, she grieve the deaths of the Civil Rights boys and the girls who died in the Birmingham, Ala., church bombing.
He said it is his hope that parents teach their children what he learned as a boy and just refuse hate. (Fox News)
Perry went on to dedicate his award to those who want to “stand in the middle, no matter what’s around the walls.”
“Stand in the middle, because that’s where healing happens,” he continued. “That’s where conversation happens. That’s where change happens. It happens in the middle So anyone who wants to meet me in the middle, to refuse hate, to refuse blanket judgment, and to help lift someone’s feet off the ground, this one is for you, too.”
"Refuse hate."
Tyler Perry accepts Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award "I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican or because they are Black or white or LBGTQ. I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer. I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian." pic.twitter.com/FjpTaYhKUu— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2021
Nice speech and sentiment.
Our differences are microscopically insignificant compared to those who want to deceive and/or kill us.
Of course Rat Party Headquarters wants the world to hate white,heterosexual,Christian males....just because. If they have their way i will someday be forced to wear a yellow cross on my sleeve....
He said he related to the woman because his mother grew up in a “Jim Crow South”
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Does he still vote democrat?
I will hate anybody in anti-fa or any such group now, forever, and utterly. They are subhuman filth. So there
Good for him! You have to taste hate and then make a difference to help stomp out that hate. His family has lived in that hate called Jim Crow and instead of pounding it to death it appears he’s learned from it and tried to make the world a better place.
Excellent sir. Thank you.
As a Rule I choose to only hate people who hate me.
Unfortunately, that includes about half the Population in our Country.
I like Perry’s movies and think he’s a really nice guy. My family loves the Madea movies. His message has never been “racial.” He does not demonize white people. His movies are an accurate portrayal of fun loving, God fearing Black families and what they have gone through in their lives.
I believe in the Golden Rule, and follow it. Treat others as you would like to be treated. But don’t F with me, or my kids, because you’ll see a side of me that isn’t very pretty.
Never heard of him
His sentiments are probably similar to most Americans, but in a sense, they still don’t tell us much.
I don’t hate Transgenders, but I don’t want to go to a high school sporting event and see a guy who “identifies as a girl” slam-dunking basketballs over the heads of the females.
I don’t hate Hispanics, but I don’t want my government to let illegal immigration slide.
I don’t hate gays and lesbians, but I don’t want my churches minister to be an openly practicing homosexual.
I could go on and on, but simply saying you don’t hate someone doesn’t tell me very much. I know Leftists who walk around with signs that read “Down with Hate!”, but they in turn hate people on the political Right with a passion.
If we managed to sit this guy down and delve into his politics and what he feels government should and shouldn’t do, I’m skeptical as to whether he’d make us feel all warm and fuzzy.
All too close to home for him....the radical s*&t is affecting his millions in Ga, investments
So he waited until NOW to complain...fake!!
Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome
Wonder what his true feelings about Trump and his supporters are
Completely unrealistic request. Naive and foolish if you ask me. People will be people.
I’d suggest you don’t give them that kind of power over you. After all, they’re just lost fools.
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