Is Paying The Light Bill Enough?

Tyler Perry Says Black Women Should Marry Men Who Can Only Pay The Light Bill.

Rosalyn Morris
4 min readSep 18, 2023
Photo by Jeffery Erhunse on Unsplash

Another day, another dating controversy.

Another day, another dating controversy over whether Black women should lower their standards or not…

This time actor/producer/director/billionaire Tyler Perry is in the hot seat for comments he made about Black women’s love lives. Tyler Perry, in an interview with actress Crystal Renee Hayslett, starts out by saying that Black women make a lot more money than Black men for the most part these days.

Is this true?

At least according to this website it’s not, but I digress.

Perry went on to say to Black women…

“If you can find love, if that man works at whatever job and is a good man, and is good to you, and honors you, and honors the house, and honors his wife, and does what he can… because his gift might not be your gift, that is okay. That’s not somebody that’s beneath you. That’s somebody who came to

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