Maybe Tyler From ‘Boomerang’ Was Right: Everything Is Racist

Thirty years ago, I rolled my eyes at the trope — now I don’t

“As a Black man of a certain age, I look at Tyler differently now. I see him not as the humorous trope but as an oracle, delivering a warning of a reality I could not — or would not — see. Now when I think of him, I have to acknowledge he wasn’t entirely wrong. Racism, while not omnipresent, constitutes a series of waypoints in my life’s chronicle.” — Marlon Weems