For Colored Girls

For this blog I thought I would look at something that I haven’t really looked at before. I have been paying a lot of attention to the information being given about Tyler Perry’s movie called For Colored Girls. I thought this was interesting first, because the trailer a previews for the movie don’t really tell what the show was going to be about, but further research would should that this movies is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." I thought this was interesting because the play was about various controversial issues that arise in not only being a black woman, but a woman in general. The justice question from this however arises in that as a society we are still uncomfortable when discussing racial issues and sensitive topics, such as rape, abortion, abuse and other things. The basic information provided on tv about this movie completely leaves some people ignorant to the fact that the movie exists and what to expect when going to the theatre. As sad as it may be, I can predict that not many diverse populations will go to see this movie when it comes out next week. This is because as a culture we are still uncomfortable with the topics of race that I mentioned earlier. I must admit that when I first saw the previews for the movie I was not excited about going to see it, but now I look forward to seeing how the struggles of African American women will play out on screen and I hope to see women of other ethnicities in the theatre as well, because at the end of the day, we are all women, and most of our challenges will be universal for this very reason.