Meet the Browns

So I finally saw “Meet the Browns” yesterday at one of my girls house. She gets every movie on bootleg. So those of you who haven’t seen it, well I won’t spoil it by sharing the premise of the movie, but I will share something that I did not like. The opening scene or maybe the second scene is of Angela Basset and this pretty Latina girl sitting on the bus. And I can’t quite remember what the Latina girl said, but Basset replied “Girl you know you can’t be doing that with your condition”. Or something along the lines of that statement right there. Anyway, I figured I knew what condition she was talking about, so I waited for the movie to confirm it. Sure enough, the girl is Bipolar on the movie. She was constantly cussing folks out, throwing rocks, smoking weed, and threatening to burn buildings down. Jennifer Louis is also in the movie and she has Bipolar. I wonder what she thought about how Tyler portrayed a person with Bipolar?

I thought he is presenting the same stigma that I (and every person who has good sense with mental illness) fight to knock down everyday. My feelings were kind of hurt because I’m sure now that a lot of people in the African American community who have seen this movie will believe that his portrayal is completely accurate.
Everywhere I look..The news, tv shows, movies..there all talking about Bipolar. I’m wondering if all this talk is really helping the situation of how people view those with mental illnesses.