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WATCH: The Cultural Impact Of 'The Six Triple Eight'
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12/31/2024
Tyler Perry’s groundbreaking film honors the unsung legacy of the all-Black female battalion in World War II, highlighting how Black women have long redefined excellence and innovation in America.
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and really talk about the cultural impact of the film,
00:02
which I feel like you guys have really spoke about
00:05
through every question, but what do you hope audiences,
00:09
especially younger, the younger generation,
00:11
takes away from 6 Triple A
00:12
and about black women's role in shaping history?
00:16
One of my favorite things about this story,
00:19
this true story, and by any kind, about charity,
00:22
is that these were all your everyday people.
00:25
They were average people.
00:27
When you talk about the life that they lived each day,
00:29
or one, two, you really get the sense
00:32
that it's the average people that made such a huge difference
00:36
in millions of people's lives.
00:38
What is it, 17 million pieces of mail and packaging?
00:42
Just think about how many families were soothed
00:45
by what these women did.
00:47
That to you is, you can do anything you put your mind to,
00:51
and work with your community the correct way.
00:54
Instead of doing what some of the agendas
00:58
that they have taught us to do in the past,
01:00
when you just remember that
01:02
and you really hone in on the mission,
01:04
I think you get it right when you do that.
01:06
And anybody can do that.
01:08
That's the thing I hope that young women
01:10
see and feel from this.
01:11
Lena was 17 years old, 17.
01:14
I love when you talk about them being not just soldiers,
01:16
but healers, because that's what these letters did.
01:20
They brought healing to these men serving,
01:23
and they helped to end a war
01:26
that protected democracy all over the world.
01:30
For me, I feel like my hope is that
01:33
people just know who these women are,
01:35
that they celebrate these women,
01:36
that they get the flowers, that they are so due,
01:40
that we lift them up as heroes,
01:43
but also to Ebony's point,
01:44
that we lift them up as examples of the best of us,
01:47
so that we know that we too can walk toward
01:51
whatever the mission is of our lives.
01:54
Because they were, yeah, we can become whoever it is
01:57
that we feel called to being,
01:59
that best version of ourselves,
02:01
because they did that,
02:02
and they did that facing racism and misogyny
02:05
and insanely terrible working conditions.
02:09
They did it in a war time.
02:10
They did it up against systems
02:12
that were not fighting for them,
02:15
but they fought for the best in themselves
02:17
because they believed in themselves,
02:19
despite the doubts that were in them
02:21
or the doubts that they came up against.
02:23
So I think that idea of lifting them up,
02:26
celebrating them, and then letting them,
02:29
yeah, letting them remind us of who we can be
02:32
with faith and community and strength.
02:35
Definitely.
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