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Refuse hate!!   –  Tyler Perry Shares Stories of Jewish Allyship to Black American Community, and mother’s counsel

November 3, 2022 by AFRIPOL Leave a Comment

Tyler Perry writes on his Instagram page: “This first photo is of my mother with these adorable children she worked with at a Jewish community center.  I remember her coming home from work one day devastated because there was a bomb threat and my mother was horrified that there were people who wanted to blow up a building full of children because they were Jewish. I blurred their faces but think about that. It brought her back to that pain of having to live through the bombing of a church in Alabama where three little black girls died.  

My mother made sure that I knew the commonality of what black people and Jewish people have endured – she not only taught me about slavery but she also taught me about the Holocaust. But in teaching me about all our common pains she also taught me about the allies that Jewish people have been for black people. Case in point, look at the founding members of the NAACP – it took allies to get us to a better place in this country and those allies didn’t look like us.  It was Jewish allies that were murdered in Mississippi trying to help us get the right to vote.  I can fill this post with so many examples including my own allies that I work with today who have helped me grow a business that has allowed me to hire more black people than most businesses in Hollywood.  No one makes it alone.”

Refuse hate!!

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