I thought “Why Did I Get Married” was one of the ONLY movies Perry did that showed black people just living their lives, dealing with the struggles of relationships everyone deals with. Not a great movie but I remember watching it and being like “WOW! This is Tyler Perry?!”

But I also want to watch movies about black debutante balls and the Great Migration and a coming-of-age movie about a black teenager in Houston who loves to skateboard and gets into trouble with her Desi best friend. Those films are surely out there waiting to be made. I guarantee that somewhere there sits a great…