It’s your senior year in high school, and prom is only a week away.
Zaria Peterson, Tiffany Warren, Taina Morales, and Topanga Lawrence all asked you to take them to the prom.
You can only take one! Who’s gonna be your prom date?
Tyler Perry has made a fortune portraying Black men as abusive, absent, criminal, weak, or incapable of leading their families. Meanwhile, Black women are often written as saints who can do no wrong. After a while, it stops feeling like storytelling and starts feeling like a stereotype. Black men deserve to see themselves represented as loving fathers, loyal husbands, protectors, professionals, and leaders, not just as the problem that a woman has to overcome.