Tyler Perry released the trailer for his Netflix movie “The Six Triple Eight” on Wednesday. The movie tells the true story about the 6888 Battalion, the only predominantly Black Women’s Army Corps (WAC) unit during World War II.
Tyler Perry captioned the trailer on X.com:
“You have no idea what it means to me to have been given the grace and the blessing to be able to tell THIS story! Every detail is dedicated to the memory of the 855 black women and women of color of the Six Triple Eight. When America needed hope, they delivered! Coming to @Netflix Dec 20th!”
The women of the 6888 Battalion worked on the front lines distributing a three-year backlog of mail (17 million letters) to every soldier during WWII.
The women faced discrimination and racism on the front lines. Three Latina women were among their ranks.
“A lot of people do not want us to succeed,” Kerry Washington says as Captain Charity Adams in the film. “We have the most to prove.”
The women were given 6 months to distribute the mail. They accomplished their mission in less than 90 days.
Tyler Perry fans noted that “The Six Triple Eight” is his first movie in which Black women aren’t portrayed as weak, needy, physically abused, single mothers, or drug-addicts.
“The Six Triple Eight” will open in select theaters on December 6 and stream on Netflix on December 20.
You have no idea what it means to me to have been given the grace and the blessing to be able to tell THIS story!
Every detail is dedicated to the memory of the 855 black women and women of color of the Six Triple Eight.
When America needed hope, they delivered!
Coming to… pic.twitter.com/bXCYyUcN7F— Tyler Perry (@tylerperry) August 28, 2024
This is history, black history. Thank you. We need more historical movies like this about our women or us in general. Just like Hidden Figures, I am sure this will do well.
We need more of this… Not more of black trauma movies.
Thank you TP!.
— ?. ?. ?. ???? ? ? (@AimThaMachine_) August 28, 2024
They were Black, not “women of color.” Why Black Americans participate in our own erasure I will never, ever understand.
— Rob Smith (@robsmithonline) August 29, 2024
I hope Tyler stays as true to the original ladies as possible and don’t disrespect them nor their character. I hardly doubt any of those women were half Jamaican as Kerry is. These roles should have gone to 100% black American women actors who are not getting roles any longer
— Ms T #LV23 (@followtmorgan) August 28, 2024
