Tyler Perry threw some subtle shade towards Hollywood studios at the 2025 BET Awards .

Before Ledisi took the stage to perform “BLKWMN,” the Sistas creator took time to share a short story about himself and his son walking along the beach, when his child said to him, “I’m walking in your footsteps,” to which he responded, “I said, ‘No, let’s walk together.’ We walked to the end of the beach and then he looked back and he saw all the footprints that he had left.”

“I say that to you tonight because I wanna talk to you about this thing that is happening in this country and I want you to pay attention to it. Don’t miss this,” Perry said. “They are removing our books from libraries, they are removing our stories and our history, they are removing our names from government buildings. It’s

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