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Spike Lee rants about gentrification - New York's black culture being erased by white residents
dailymail. ^ | 26 February 2014 | By Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 02/26/2014 12:11:24 PM PST by dennisw

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To: Tax-chick

We’ve been so busy lately that we just can’t find the time.


61 posted on 02/26/2014 12:49:21 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: circlecity

Supposedly, he has an apartment 4 blocks east of Central Park on E 63rd just off Madison Ave. in Manhattan. It’s just a mile down Park Ave. from where Beyonce had several rooms of Lenox Hill Hospital rebuilt into a birthing suite for her. Sounds like Spike moved on up to his piece of the pie instead of remaining in the ghetto.


62 posted on 02/26/2014 12:49:52 PM PST by bgill
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To: trisham

A couple of nights a week, I watch an episode of an old tv program after the kids are in bed. Other than that, it’s reading and college lectures on CD.


63 posted on 02/26/2014 12:50:28 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: dennisw

why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better?’ he said.

Maybe that’s a question Spike should think about,
real hard.

‘When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o’clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something.’

Yeah Spike, it’s safe.


64 posted on 02/26/2014 12:53:05 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Tax-chick

We’re usually in bed by 9 or 9:30. My husband is up between 4:30 and 5:30 most days.


65 posted on 02/26/2014 12:55:37 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: dennisw

“And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better?’ he said”

Because Whites have standards that they won’t subordinate to political expedience. Lee’s rant demonstrates that Whites will move into heavily Black neighborhoods but they WON’T put up with violence.


66 posted on 02/26/2014 12:57:46 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: dennisw
And you wonder why, Mr. Lee, your strident attitude on racial relations cost you Oscar nominations for Do the Right Thing and many subsequent movies done by you. Even Jay-Z, one of the most powerful persons in show business today, moved out of the bad New York City neighborhood he grew up in a LONG time ago.
67 posted on 02/26/2014 12:59:42 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Cicero

His townhouse looks like Versailles.


68 posted on 02/26/2014 1:03:05 PM PST by Argus
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To: trisham

I get up at 5:30. Have to do the Morning Kitteh before the turmoil starts!


69 posted on 02/26/2014 1:03:09 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

‘My father’s a great jazz musician. He bought a house in nineteen-motherf*****’-sixty-eight, and the motherf*****’ people moved in last year and called the cops on my father. He’s not — he doesn’t even play electric bass! It’s acoustic! We bought the motherf*****’ house in nineteen-sixty-motherf*****’-eight and now you call the cops? In 2013? Get the f*** outta here!’

Wow, Spike Lee doing the racist fearful rant that white screen writers used to put into the mouth of Archie Bunker. Priceless!


70 posted on 02/26/2014 1:04:08 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: TalBlack

Archie would never have used that kind of language in front of Edith.


71 posted on 02/26/2014 1:05:15 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: dennisw
...pointed the finger at white black New Yorkers who have moved into historically black white neighborhoods and changed the environment, arguing that those changes have caused the areas to evolve into something completely different.

Gosh, it sounds racist when a white person says it.

72 posted on 02/26/2014 1:05:59 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Lee pointed the finger at white New Yorkers who have moved into historically black neighborhoods and changed the environment, arguing that those changes have caused the areas to evolve into something completely different.
Lee pointed the finger at black New Yorkers who have moved into historically white neighborhoods and changed the environment, arguing that those changes have caused the areas to evolve into something completely different.

Notice the difference?


Yeah. One is racist but Spikey can’t be racist so his identical statement is perfectly fine and needs indignant support. /s


73 posted on 02/26/2014 1:06:06 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: dennisw
Lee pointed the finger at white New Yorkers who have moved into historically black neighborhoods and changed the environment, arguing that those changes have caused the areas to evolve into something completely different.

That something completely different is called civilization. Apparently something that only occurs with the arrival of white people.

74 posted on 02/26/2014 1:12:06 PM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Tax-chick

Mr. T likes quiet time. He makes coffee, lets out the dogs, and spends time online.


75 posted on 02/26/2014 1:12:31 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

I know I have to be functional once byos start getting up, so I figure I might as well be proactive, get some dishes done, drink coffee, etc. Sometimes I get the chance to crash in the afternoon during Kathleen’s nap.


76 posted on 02/26/2014 1:15:10 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: dennisw

There goes the neighborhood.


77 posted on 02/26/2014 1:15:31 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: dennisw

“And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better?”

I don’t think Spike is ready to accept the answer to that question.


78 posted on 02/26/2014 1:17:13 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: babble-on

He’s pretty hit or miss. More than half his films are way too heavy handed and that just gets in the way of whatever message he wanted to get across. I did like “Crooklyn” though, that was a nice slice of life pic.


79 posted on 02/26/2014 1:18:42 PM PST by Boogieman
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80 posted on 02/26/2014 1:21:46 PM PST by Boogieman
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