"I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican or because they are Black or white, or LBGTQ."
Tyler Perry used his Oscars speech to denounce hatred and bigotry.
Tyler Perry used his Oscars speech to denounce hatred and bigotry.
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00:00I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican or because they are black or white
00:06or LBGTQ. I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer.
00:11I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian. I would hope that we would refuse hate.
00:22In this time and with all of the internet and social media and algorithms and everything that
00:27wants us to think a certain way, the 24-hour news cycle, it is my hope that all of us would teach
00:33our kids, and not only to remember, just refuse hate. No matter what's around the wall, stand in
00:38the middle because that's where healing happens. That's where conversation happens. That's where
00:42change happens. It happens in the middle. So anyone who wants to meet me in the middle,
00:46to refuse hate, to refuse blanket judgment, and to help lift someone's feet off the ground,
00:52this one is for you too.
00:57you