Justin Simien is apologizing to Tyler Perry for being one of the people who possibly inspired Perry’s recent “highbrow negro” comment. Complex reports that Simien took to TikTok to apologize to Perry after hearing Perry’s comments about him on the Baby, This is Keke Palmer podcast. During the podcast, Perry told Palmer about how he reacted to Simien’s criticism of Perry’s body of work in his film Dear White People . “I called that n***a and told him I was gonna beat his ass,” Perry said to Palmer, laughing. “When I think about somebody like him or somebody who has something to say, I’m like, ‘Great, you have your opinion.’ I live from this seat, tempered, measured, patient, prayerful and disciplined. So when I saw that, I was sad for him because I think he’s really, really talented.” Simien’s TikTok includes the director saying that he feels he’s the one Perry was calling a “highbrow negro,” saying, “Whenever I would take my weird script to studios or financiers, they were like,...
