Tyler Perry’s Sistas‘ Chido Nwokocha Thinks Gary Can Evolve Like Zac Did: ‘He’s Not Beyond Redemption’

Now everyone wants to be Zatima. First Ebony Obsidian (Karen) wanted her character to be nicer and now Chido Nwokocha wants redemption for his character. This just solidify my belief that Zatima’s popularity was not planned or written to be a success but was stumbled across. Sistas started with the typical storyline of Tyler Perry’s black women. The typical stereotypical thinking of the weak, confused, unstable, dependent, lost, abused, low self esteem, settling black woman who is unable to move on from her situation or sleeping around to get through life. But then Fatima comes along with her high energy, high self esteem, confidence, stable, not settling but able to hold her own and the fans go wild. We love Fatima because not only is she different from the regular TP characters but she is relatable or at the very least inspirational. Many have admitted that they only watch the show because they have fallen in love with Zatima,(of course his loyal fans watch because it’s TP regardless of the script.) Zatima is a more positive and relatable story line between 2 black people who are not perfect but who are supporting one another’s imperfection to encourage positive change in one another. No whole bunch of druriness and crying or an inability to think through to the next step but two people strong enough to learn from their mistakes and know that they don’t want to go down that same road again. Also a very good actor and actress. Just think of how powerful the Sistas storyline would have been with 5 beautiful black Fatimas holding it down and being successful in their chosen careers while navigating life. Think of how much better KJ Smith’s character Andi’s would have been as a confident black woman who happens to be a successful lawyer, or Ebony’s character as a self made innovative entrepreneur who was self aware. Or Sabrina as an engineering corporate administrator with high self esteem who didn’t have to settle for confusion in her love life to get or keep a man. The only one in my opinion that comes fairly close to Fatima is Danni because at least she is willing to speak up for herself and she doesn’t appear as fearful as the others to accept reality. Danni is the only one who has been willing to evaluate her love life and say what she wants and was willing to question was sex the only thing that her and Preston had in common, even though she didn’t think through the consequences yet she was willing to be truthful with herself. This is why so many want Tyler Perry to invite other writers to collaborate with him. It’s important to know the mind of a woman when you are constantly writing about them. His stereotypical thinking towards women but especially black women is not a good representation of the lives of black women today. We are in an age where women especially black women are fighting hard to be represented accurately. Yes there are have flaws to overcome and mistakes that have been made but that shouldn’t always be the representation of the black woman’s life. As Fatima is showing there is so much more to a black woman and a few black women writers could bring that to the front line in a few Tyler Perry production. I guess Chido Nwokocha should be glad that Tyler Perry doesn’t get it because if TP did Andi would have been strong and Chido Nwokocha character would have been gone in season 2. A Fatima Andi would have kicked him to the curb a long time ago.