Weighing over 250 pounds, she is very hard to miss. Although its presence takes many variations, it can be easily recognized by a handful of defining attributes. Aside from her enormous size, she most often has a darker complexion, she usually gets into a confrontational or awkward conversation, and her best line is often little more than a sassy "Mmmm hmmm." This caricature, playing on stereotypes of tall, boisterous and sometimes aggressive black women, has appeared for some time in black television sitcoms like "The Parkers" and films like "Norbit" often have directors and writers who are themselves- same blacks. As black directors and producers gave the character more acceptability, she began to appear more and more often. Despite the popularity of these characters among black people themselves, some find these images of tall black women embarrassing because they exploit a cultural divide that still exists between whites and blacks. For decades, stereotypical depictions of black people have drawn criticism from civil rights groups. . Some of the oldest and most iconic examples of black people on television like Florida Evans, the mother of Good Times; Louise Beavers as Beulah showed black people in passive, subservient roles reminiscent of the era of slavery. Black women who played lead roles in television sitcoms were often dark-skinned, sassy, ​​loud, and overweight. These images have been toned down over the years and are no longer as overtly stereotypical as they once were. Today, the freer use of overweight black women in comedic situations suggests a welcome change that reflects greater acceptability of black people in the media. But others find the recurring u...... middle of paper...... people are diagnosed with type II diabetes every day. It is important that people try to educate our young people about the risks of poor diet and becoming seriously overweight. I believe that the way large black women are portrayed in television and film does indeed have an effect on how they are perceived in the black community. Images of leading black women and the roles they play in television sitcoms and movies fuel many stereotypes that evolved hundreds of years ago during slavery. It is very sad to say that we, as black people, are somehow holding ourselves back from moving forward by continuing to accept these demeaning figures into our homes every day. Not all plus size black women are desperate, loud, easy and overly dramatic; but unless you have or have had a personal relationship with a tall black woman, you wouldn't know that..