Tyler Perry: 'We Are Still Being Racially Profiled'

[bigtree]

April 2, 2012

(CNN) -- Racial profiling "should be a hate crime investigated by the FBI," filmmaker Tyler Perry wrote in a Facebook posting Sunday in which he described his own tense encounter with police.

"It was so hostile," Perry, who is African-American, wrote. "I was so confused. It was happening so fast that I could easily see how this situation could get out of hand very quickly. I didn't feel safe at all."

Perry, one of America's most successful film and television producers, said "although we have made significant strides with racial profiling in this country, the world needs to know that we are still being racially profiled."

His posting, which drew 91,586 "likes" and 15,637 comments in its first five hours online, told what happened when two white police officers stopped him while driving from his southwest Atlanta movie studio last month . . .


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1. my heart started pounding just reading that article. 'watching' it happening.

"It was happening so fast that I could easily see how this situation could get out of hand very quickly."







thank you for posting that, bigtree

Mr. Perry!

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2. Perry is spitting mad about what happened to him

And he is speaking OUT. But this bit cracks me up:

"Another police cruiser pulled up after Perry stepped out of his car, he said.

"This officer was a black guy," Perry wrote. "He took one look at me and had that 'Oh No' look on his face."

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3. I really don't believe it was 'Oh No'.

The look was more like "Holy S...! I can't believe yall are that stupid!"