Get To Know Your Movie Negroes Part IV

By Odienator
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated! Our big work conference was a major success, and my two big presentations went quite well. I even managed to win Consultant of the Year, which shocked me to no end. I’m back on duty now, and I’ve got catching up to do. It’s time to bring out Black History Mumf’s annual sing-a-long! I've done it three times before. Part IV dead ahead.

Get to Know Your Movie Negroes tells you, with a little musical help from a song Bob sang on Sesame Street, all about the Folks you’ve seen in movies. After three years of singing, I thought I’d run out of types to sing about, but oh was I wrong!  It’s an ALL TYLER PERRY edition! After all, he has singing in his plays; it’s time to return the favor.

Sing along!

Ohhhhhhhhh oh!

Who are the Negroes in your Cinema?

In your cinema?

In your cinema?

Yes, who are the Negroes in your cinema?

They’re the people movies make us play!

 

Now the Jackson who’s named Janet,

When on Tyler Perry’s planet,

Will always make her husband itch,

Because she always plays a bitch!

‘Cuz Miss Jackson’s a Negro in your cinema!

In your cinema!

In your cinema!

Penny from Good Times is a Negro in your cinema!

She’s Miss Jackson because I’m nasty.

(Janet Jackson is far from a great actress, but she seems to inspire some of Tyler Perry’s most absurd and out there scenes. Look at her batshit crazy "You want to be a bitch, well there's your man!" scene directed at her husband in Why Did I Get Married Too? Or the way Perry shoots some of her glares in For Colored Girls. To the next verse!)

Now Madea’s Perry’s cash cow!

She’s been in several movies now.

She’ll shoot you or save you from ruin.

But Spike Lee thinks she’s a big coon.

‘Cuz Madea’s a Negro in your cinema!

In your cinema!

In your cinema!

There’s a Negro in a housedress in your cinema!

And Martin Lawrence is one too.

(What can one say about Madea? Well, after Black History Mumf, I’ll be back here with Steven Boone discussing her. Stay tooned! Last verse, about the most common Negro in Tyler Perry’s movies.)

Now the doormat gets trampled on.

And somehow her faith’s never gone.

She’s beaten, mistreated, ignored,

and a recruiter for the Lord.

‘Cuz the doormat’s a Negro in your cinema!

In your cinema!

In your cinema!

And the drag coon’s a Negro in your cinema!

They’re the people that you meet

When you’re in your theater seat!

They're the Negroes Ho'wood makes us playyyy!