Tyler Perry Stuns Oscars With Powerful Rebuke Of Hate – The Federalist

During a predictably leftist Academy Awards broadcast Sunday evening, one speech stood out amidst the virtue-signaling for its moving and refreshingly important message. In his acceptance speech for the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Tyler Perry gave a powerful rebuke against hate and a plea for understanding between Americans on all sides of the ideological spectrum.

Perry opened with a memory of helping a homeless woman who asked him for shoes. Recalling his own experiences with homelessness, he brought her into the film set he was working on at the time, and gave her shoes from the costume department.

He described the situation, She finally looks up and shes got tears in her eyes. She says: Thank you Jesus. My feet are off the ground. In that moment I recall her saying to me, I thought you would hate me for asking but how could I hate you when I used to be you?

He then connected this memory to those of his mother, her experiences growing up in the South under Jim Crow, mourning the deaths of civil rights leaders while teaching him to reject hate, a lesson he hoped all parents would impart to their children.

From there, he demonstrated the impact of her lessons with a bold series of declarations, saying: I refuse to hate someone because theyre Mexican or because they are Black or white, or LGBTQ. I refuse to hate someone because theyre a police officer. I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian. I would hope that we would refuse hate.

The audience erupted into applause at the outset of this section. The claps and cheers began conspicuously fading the moment he mentioned police officers.

Frequently, when celebrities speak out against hate, they are preaching against some nebulous bigotry that the woke elite erroneously ascribe to all conservatives, of which they are always exempt. It must have been shocking to hear, at the Oscars no less, support for a group they desire to despise with impunity.

Calls for unity are similarly coded language asking those on the right to accept whatever extreme policy goals the left is attempting to push.Perry, who identifies as neither a Democrat nor Republican, likewise evaded this lip service to political civility by imploring the Oscars attendees and viewers at home to engage in open dialogue, meeting in the middle and attempting to understand each other.

He ended his acceptance with,I want to take this Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and dedicate it to anyone who wants to stand in the middle, no matter whats around the walls, stand in the middle because thats where healing happens. Thats where conversation happens. Thats where change happens. It happens in the middle.So anyone who wants to meet me in the middle, to refuse hate, to refuse blanket judgment and to help lift someones feet off the ground, this one is for you, too.

The entire speech can be seen here:

Paulina Enck is an intern at the Federalist and current student at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service. Follow her on Twitter at @itspaulinaenck

Photo LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA APRIL 25: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) In this handout photo provided by A.M.P.A.S., honoree Tyler Perry accepts the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award onstage during the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images)

Photo LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA APRIL 25: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) In this handout photo provided by A.M.P.A.S., honoree Tyler Perry accepts the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award onstage during the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images)

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Tyler Perry Stuns Oscars With Powerful Rebuke Of Hate - The Federalist