Ignorance "For Colored Girls"

I recently went to go see Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls," which was a choreopoem written by Ntozake Shange. The original title of the choreopoem was "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enough." It was so marvellously written. It was about the trails and tribulations that colored women went through "back in the day," but these issues still exist. But colored, doesn't mean just black women. She meant, Black women, Asian women, Hispanic women, etc. Any women of color. This play was published in the 70s, a time where women were still seen as second rate, especially colored women.
I chose the title of this blog because when i saw this movie people were laughing at things that just weren't funny. This movie was about the hardships of womanhood, women being raped, abused, used, mistreated and women who lost their children. What in the hell is so humorous about that? I have read the book "For Colored Girls..." before. Although the stories are written in poem form, it was very easy to dissect their true meaning. Maybe the issue isn't ignorance, maybe the issue is stupidity. Who knows?
It just bothered me and ruined my chance to reflect on the realness of the issues women still deal with today. You know America, sometimes picking up a book every now and then, is a good thing!
I wish ignorance wasn't bliss. I wish ignorance was painful.

"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enough." By Ntozake Shange
"Extraordinary and wonderful...Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone   can relate to her message."
-The New York Times
 
"Celebrates the capacity to master pain and betrayals with wit, sister-sharing, reckless daring, and flight, and forgetfulness if necessary. She celebrates most of all women's loyalties to women."
-Toni Cade Bambara, Ms. Magazine