Spike Lee rants about gentrification - New York's black culture being erased by white residents

dailymail. ^ | 26 February 2014 | By Daily Mail Reporter

[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.

'Here’s the thing: I grew up here in Fort Greene. I grew up here in New York. It’s 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 wasn’t 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 weren’t around.

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

[Tax-chick]

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

That they're nuts?

[cumbo78]

So Spike.....become part of the pro life movement. Roe vs. Wade is responsible for a black genocide greater than Margaret Sanger or Hitler himself could have ever imagined. Reports just yesterday that more than half of the abortions in NYC were of black children. Rant about that!

[edcoil]

I grew up with generations of history of my tribe of no water, no education, taking slaves from other tribes, no medicine, and dam-it, I want to keep the stupidity of 5,000 years of my race.

[Cicero]

Hey, Spike, if you love the slums so much, why don’t you go live there?

Images of Spike Lee’s house, Upper East Side:

https://www.google.com/search?q=spike+lee’s+house+upper+east+side&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-SearchBox&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=i0wOU8b_F6zgsATMo4GQDA&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1152&bih=660

[MRadtke]

That man truly has no clue.

[Jim Robinson]

Is this a parody or what?

[varyouga]

“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?”

An influx of taxpayers and decline of leeches might have something to do with it...

[zerosix]

To Spike Lee: Those neighborhoods were white before they became black (mostly because of black violence!)

[DwFry]

“New York’s black culture being erased by white residents”

I assume that’s code for property values going up?

[trisham]

I never liked him, and I like him less now.

[dennisw]

Spike Lee Lists Upper East Side NYC Townhouse for $32M
Wednesday, January 8, 2014, by Amy Schellenbaum

****** from your link. When he sells he can move to Yonkers and commute

[arista]

If white people move in, it’s criticized by the race hustlers as “gentrification”. When white people move out, it’s criticized as “white flight”. Apparently, anything that white people do is seen as a form of oppression. The race hustlers should just be honest with themselves and everyone else and admit that they just don’t like white people.

[hal ogen]

He’s got time to rant this racist pap? spike...go make yet another exceptionally bad movie, you pinhead racist.

[Responsibility2nd]

More....

'There were brothers playing mother*****’ African drums in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can’t do it anymore because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud.'

'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!'


 

[buwaya]

I’m male, but I recall walking the babies at 3am to try get them back to sleep. In a safe part of San Francisco. Maybe 125th in NY is that safe now.

[dennisw]

Washington DC is now black minority. So many whites and Asians and Hispanics have moved in due to the FedGov’s Godzilla like growth. Blacks used to be the majority population there

[gaijin]

At a time that MOST black babies conceived in NYC, the problem is GENTRIFICATION...? WOW.

If he still lives Brooklyn why doesn’t he LIVE THERE?

[bgill]

Yet, he’s not in jail for threatening to kill the questioner.

In 1973, the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, TX changed overnight due to “white flight” when the almigthy DISD decided that the poor widdle black kids needed to go to the big rich (aka middle class) white schools and the well educated wealthy (same middle class) kids needed to be bussed to the dregs of black schools outside their neighborhoods. Now days, no one would be caught out past high noon on some streets there. What does that tell you, Spike, huh?

[dennisw]

All those inserted “mother ******s” are just Spike Lee keepin it real

[Tax-chick]

Maybe 125th in NY is that safe now.

That's a possibility. I've been known to take the babies out on the doorstep at 3:00 a.m., but not go pushing up the street, because I'm in my pajamas for one thing.