@ Lost In Paradise I like what you wrote. But let me correct you on a few things. I don't have a "high horse" mentality. And I am an intellectual there is nothing pseudo about me. I do have an interest in creative writing and the beauty of that is that I can create characters and scenes that I would enjoy to watch and hear. But I'm not sure many blacks would see my films much in the way that few African Americans even know the work of the black director Steve McQueen. McQueen did a brilliant movie not about Black people from the HOOD but about an Irish republican named Bobby Sands who leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike. This movie is so good that it's surpasses most of the movies I've seen and it's on par with film auteurs like Kubrick or David Lynch. But you know what? I would never get the funding because it is well established that Black audiences are of one variety and that is of the Tyler Perry type. Even Spike Lee can't get his movies made and his taste level is far more accessible than McQueen. The point is that thanks to movies like "Think like A Man"...African Americans are held in a BOX and that stereotype extends well past the movie houses. I'm just tired of people acting like Steve Harvey or Tyler Perry are the best things going...no they are the ONLY things going because Most African Americans have a taste level that has not changed since movies began in large part. You should read this book by Donald Bogle is a film historian and author of six books concerning African Americans in film and on television. He is an instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Pennsylvania. In his first book "Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretative History of Blacks in Films," Donald speak about how little film has changed when it comes to African Americans and this book was written before I was even born. Strange how we are still in the same place but it's not just in film but it's also in a much wider social context. When people stop accepting the terrible images that are placed before them (that conversely were first put out by racist whites and now it put out by clueless blacks)...then maybe there will be room for other options. Better options. More creative options.