Posted on 08/19/2014 10:39:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Filmmaker Spike Lee weighed in on the death of Michael Brown and said the “uprising” in Ferguson, Mo., is in response to years of racial tension and mistreatment towards the black community in the United States. “When people get to a point — to that tipping point — they can’t take it anymore,” Lee said on CNN on Tuesday, listing the tragedies involving Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Rodney King, and others.
While he seemed to disapprove of looting and burning property, Lee also said that he “just hope[s] that things will really blow up if people aren’t happy with the verdict of this upcoming trial.”
The deaths of Brown, Martin, Garner, and others are extreme examples of a growing trend in America, he continued.
“I just think there is a war on the black male, and it’s tearing the country apart, in my opinion,” Lee said. “It’s not just killing us — it’s educational system, it’s the prison system, it’s these young black men growing up with no hope. It’s systematic.”
Earlier in the interview, Lee also questioned the validity of the account of a friend of Officer Darren Wilson, who killed Brown, which was substantially more favorable to the officer than other witnesses’ accounts. Lee said the timing of the friend’s statement was orchestrated and said she’d been reading from a script.
Lee infamously involved himself in the media frenzy surrounding the 2012 Trayvon Martin case, at one point distributing to his hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers what he thought was the address to the house of Martin’s killer. (The address ended up belonging to an elderly Florida couple, who received a series of death threats in the subsequent months.)
this guy hasn’t learned to stfu yet?
Funny how his name is not too far away from that of Sheila Jackson Lee.
And he’s one of those who is truly at war with the black male, to set his phrase right.
He is 100% right, but has he been to Chicago lately? The war on the black male, is being waged by other black males.
Mayhap if they got up off their lazy arses’s and got a job (other then selling drugs) and put forth an effort to better themselves through education this whole thread would be a mute subject.
He’s still a punk.
Including himself.
How true. It starts with the family, or rather the lack thereof.
From what I can tell it’s a war of their own..
it’s rare to hear of a black on black killing because sadly it happens a lot.
but if a white guy shoots a black man after the black man literally busts his skull.. well then stop the presses its time to lynch the white guy.
Spike lee and Sharpton and Jackson et al are a lot like hamas, they like it when their own people die. it furthers their hate propaganada.
If we were really racists, we would have killed this little turd years ago.
Tough shiite, I will shoot back if cornered, and recent history has shown that if the potential assailant is a young negro, that ratchets things up immediately, benefit of the doubt goes out the window so to speak.
Why do not you and Holder and the other race pimps address why that should be the case? Even ol' Shakedown Jackson said how relieved he was to see someone following him at night was white.
Many have touched on it, but the MSM will not report it: the sickness comes from your ghetto culture, not racism.
That’s similar to my argument with leftists when they say the United States is imperialistic. Do they realize that there was a period of about five years when we were the only people with the atomic bomb? Then why didn’t we destroy or bomb countries left and right and colonize them during that period?
that’s b/c most black males are tribal thugs stealing stuff, punching people, and shooting each other. become an intelligent, well-socialized human being like the rest of us and there won’t be problems. until you do, you’ll have problems.
waaaaaaay more than just him, if we were racist.
The “war” is black on black. Put down the crack pipe Lee.
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