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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

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.'

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KEYWORDS: blackkk; brooklyn; crownheights; gentrification; harlem; limolibs; newyorkcity; spikelee; thugculture
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To: DwFry

Pretty much that.
The rent is too d*** high, as the other fellow put it.


41 posted on 02/26/2014 12:31:22 PM PST by buwaya
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To: dennisw
white New Yorkers who have moved into historically black neighborhoods

There are no "historically black neighborhoods" in NYC - not even Harlem - that weren't previously white neighborhoods.

Spike Lee likes to talk about history a lot, but doesn't like to read it.

42 posted on 02/26/2014 12:31:58 PM PST by wideawake
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To: hal ogen

I disliked his first movie, and never watched anything else he did.


43 posted on 02/26/2014 12:32:22 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’ve never seen a single one, just read about them.


44 posted on 02/26/2014 12:33:13 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: Tax-chick

The only thing you’ve missed is being annoyed.


45 posted on 02/26/2014 12:34:02 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

“Boys in the hood”
Spike must think its a comedy movie.


46 posted on 02/26/2014 12:34:51 PM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: dennisw

What I got our of his racist rant is that he thinks blacks makes for bad neighborhoods and white make for safer neighborhoods.


47 posted on 02/26/2014 12:34:58 PM PST by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: dennisw

White removes blight....

Don’t understand the problem.

No one’s telling em they can’t peddle drugs and practice acts of violence elsewhere....


48 posted on 02/26/2014 12:34:59 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: dennisw

Poor Spike wants to go back to the Reagan years, he is just to stupid to know it.


49 posted on 02/26/2014 12:36:51 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: dennisw

Preserve the crime-infested ghettos!


50 posted on 02/26/2014 12:37:56 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: dennisw

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

Why, yes it does Mr. Spike but I don’t think you want to know what it is.


51 posted on 02/26/2014 12:39:54 PM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: dennisw

So how would the media cover it if some WHITE guy responded to Spike Lee in a public forum by cutting him off and saying “let me just kill you right now”?

Hmmm... lemme think...


52 posted on 02/26/2014 12:40:41 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: CodeToad

Yep. Oh, and brothers cant play “mother*****’ African drums in Mount Morris Park” anymore.

Pity.


53 posted on 02/26/2014 12:40:42 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: zerosix

My parents fled Brooklyn in 1954 for Long Island. What had been a lovely neighborhood was quickly going down hill. It’s done a complete turn around in the past few years with brownstones selling in the millions.


54 posted on 02/26/2014 12:42:12 PM PST by surrey
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To: trisham

Any time I miss an opportunity to be annoyed, that’s good. One can only drink so much and still be functional ...


55 posted on 02/26/2014 12:44:55 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: Tax-chick

Heh. :)


56 posted on 02/26/2014 12:45:25 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: Responsibility2nd

Yeah, and my father lived there from 1931 on when his father lost everything in the crash and they were forced out of Manhattan into Brooklyn. It’s called a cycle, you stupid man.


57 posted on 02/26/2014 12:45:42 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: dennisw

He’s just pissed because he has a dogs name.


58 posted on 02/26/2014 12:46:17 PM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: trisham

But seriously, we’re always being told we “have to” see this or that movie for some reason, but I never do. It’s all entertainment, and if I don’t think it’s going to entertain me, I don’t have a dime or minute for it.

Maybe I’ve missed some movies I would have liked, but oh well. I don’t have time to watch all the stuff on my Netflix queue as it is.


59 posted on 02/26/2014 12:47:14 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!”


60 posted on 02/26/2014 12:47:27 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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