Tyler Perry is footing the bill for 65 children traveling to Orlando, Florida. A child care center privileges to swim at a private swim club was revoked. Marcus Allen was one the swimmer. Allen was in tears to learn that folks made stereotypical comments about African-Americans.
Allen only wanted to swim at the pool. No one could not look at the CNN reporter asking Allen why he was neartears. You could see Allen outlook on life changing, what Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. called ominous clouds of inferiority forming in a letter he wrote in 1963:
"..when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: 'Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?'"
How fitting that Perry sends these children to an amusement park that in 1963 would not have allowed these children to entered. Somethings have changed and somethings remain the same
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