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During a 2009 interview on "Our World With Black Enterprise," Lee took issue with the films of <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB005431" title="Tyler Perry" href="/topic/entertainment/movies/tyler-perry-PECLB005431.topic">Tyler Perry</a>, saying, "We shouldn't think that Tyler Perry is going to make the same film that I am going to make, or that <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB003711" title="John Singleton" href="/topic/entertainment/john-singleton-PECLB003711.topic">John Singleton</a> or my cousin Malcolm Lee [would make]. As African-Americans, we're not one monolithic group, so there is room for all of that. But at the same time, for me, the imaging is troubling and it harkens back to 'Amos n' Andy'."<br>
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Perry later told reporters, "Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, 'this is a coon, this is a buffoon.' I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies."

( Tim Palen )

During a 2009 interview on "Our World With Black Enterprise," Lee took issue with the films of Tyler Perry, saying, "We shouldn't think that Tyler Perry is going to make the same film that I am going to make, or that John Singleton or my cousin Malcolm Lee [would make]. As African-Americans, we're not one monolithic group, so there is room for all of that. But at the same time, for me, the imaging is troubling and it harkens back to 'Amos n' Andy'."

Perry later told reporters, "Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, 'this is a coon, this is a buffoon.' I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies."

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