Its probably because ALOT of blacks support those images. Tyler Perry has 2 number one blockbusters by portraying a fat, black, sassy woman. Its highly unlikely the majority of his audience is comprised of whites.

To some, the freer use of overweight black women in comic situations suggests a welcome change that reflects a broader acceptability of blacks in the media. But others find the recurring use of the image a return to a disturbing past.
And some say these images may serve to exacerbate misunderstanding between whites and blacks.

“Not only are we being given images of who we are supposed to be, but others are also formulating their images of us based on that,” said Marilyn Kern Foxworth, an author and marketing expert who studies how blacks are portrayed in advertising. “People have already determined who we are and how we’re going to react in certain situations.”

Exactly! Also, if it's not showing us as big fat women, it;'s showing us as the "hoochie mama" There is an ad for I-Pod, where this stupid white man is on a bus, and he says to this black girl who is standing on the bus, "Dance" and she starts dancing, sticking her ass out, it burns me everytime I see it, she has a pole, like a stripper, and it's very disrepectful.

I guess I say older because they are always as you say comforting and mammylike. They always seems to be a caregiver or some sort and they just seem like life is already over for them so that's why to me they seem older.

And when I say as something they see as negative I mean that want to make sure white women don't feel threatened. White folks look down on fat women and they probably like black women fat to make sure thier white sons are not lusting over them which they probably do anyways.

This image has always been found to be acceptable-and it isn't. But the funny thing is that we as Black people are the biggest perpetrators of that stereotype as well.

Queen Latifah often is forced to play that type of role in films. Countess Vaughn, Monique, Natalie Desselle, Mabel King, and others often had to do the same just to work regularly.

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But Tyler Perry's Medea is really not that fat.  Secondly, commercials and tv are  more main stream.  , this is where I find the use most troubling.