Posted on 02/26/2014 12:11:24 PM PST by dennisw
The Brooklyn-raised director launched into an argument about the drawbacks of gentrification Compared Fort Greene Park to the 'motherf*****' Wesminster Dog Show' because it is so clean Lee was raised in Brooklyn but has lived in the Upper East Side since 2000
Spike Lee went on a long-winded rant against gentrification in New York City on Tuesday night when he was asked to argue against the development of poorer neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Harlem.
The director, who has focused on racial issues and gentrification in his films, blasted an audience member at the Pratt Institute who started defending the changes in the neighborhoods.
'Let me just kill you right now,' Lee said to the unidentified questioner.
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.
'Heres the thing: I grew up here in Fort Greene. I grew up here in New York. Its changed. 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.
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'The garbage wasnt picked up every mother***** day when I was living in 165 Washington Park. P.S. 20 was not good. P.S. 11. Rothschild 294. The police werent around.
'When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three oclock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something.'
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LOL! I guess that definitely makes it not my kind of movie, then. :)
Maybe because white culture isn't about destroying and taking, but about building and improving?
Nah, that can't be it. It must be that governments only give money and benefits to white people and white areas. We talk about that all the time in our top-secret all-the-white-folks-only meetings. No money ever gets assigned to improving black areas. Ahem.
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