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Spike Lee rants about gentrification - New York's black culture being erased by white residents
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| 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
I took a nap today while sitting in front of the computer. It was just 25 minutes, but it helped.
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:22:44 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: dennisw
Spike, buddy, what happened to “our diversity is our strength”? Hey, you related to Robert E., by the way?
To: trisham
Spikey truly hates white people. I’d hate to walk around with that kind of hate in me. Typical lib.
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.Kind of like Detroit but in reverse.
To: trisham
I sometimes go down like the dead for a couple of hours. My Tom kindly lets me know when it’s not safe for me to drive.
On Monday night, I swiped some Diet Coke from the church kitchen so I could stay awake to drive home, but I replaced it on Tuesday ;-).
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:36:54 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
To: dandiegirl
He does seem to be harboring an excess of hostility.
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:37:27 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:39:47 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: dennisw
Most of us have the exact opposite complaint.
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:39:48 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:40:21 PM PST
by
NEMDF
To: trisham
We’re at the church so much that it seems like we live there ;-). I caught my daughter Sally coming out the kitchen with a cup of soda after Mass a couple of Sundays ago, and I said, “You know you’re not supposed to help yourself out of the kitchen.” She said, “Vinnie Mantione said I could.” I said, “If Vinnie Mantione is in the kitchen giving you permission to snarf sodas, I want to talk to him ... because Vinnie Mantione is DEAD!”
Well, it turns out he’d given this hypothetical permission before he died, not that it would surprise me if he haunted the church kitchen ... but anyway, since Tom and I drank most of a 2-liter bottle on Monday, I replaced it on Tuesday. $2 at Harris Teeter! It’s only $1 at Walmart!
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:44:01 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
To: NEMDF
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:45:01 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
To: dennisw
New York's black culture being erased by white residents Not yet Mr. Lee. Not yet. Patience.
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:48:01 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
To: Tax-chick
LOL! That’s a great story. :)
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:50:00 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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.30 years ago I moved into a neighborhood in which .... well, let's just say I was a little outnumbered. Outnumbered like the grain of salt in a pepper shaker. I had wonderful neighbors. No complaints on that score.
The neighborhood gradually changed. The newcomers, mostly white, were the fixer-uppers. The shift from primarily renters to primarily owners was a big part of this. I'm not sure that race had much to do with it.
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:50:04 PM PST
by
sphinx
To: dennisw
So according to Spike Lee Blacks should live in Black only ghettos where the culture of pimping, gangsta rap music and drug dealing can flourish. Businesses owned by Whites and orientals should be blocked and no attempt should be made to clean up these areas, rid them of crime and provide opportunity for employment by attracting new businesses.
To: trisham
We’re an interesting parish ;-). A kitchen haunted by a ponytailed Italian Knight of Columbus would be ... no surprise.
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:54:01 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
To: Talisker
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? hell...they'd go nuclear if some white guy went on a rant about blacks moving into his neighborhood.
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:54:16 PM PST
by
pgkdan
To: dennisw
‘Let me just kill you right now,’ Lee said to the unidentified questioner.
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Is that considered by law to be a threat? Good grief!
Isn’t this Lee character the one who tweeted what he thought was the address of George Zimmerman after St. Skittles died? Is he the one who tweeted that Zimmerman should be killed? Or am I thinking of some other big-mouthed racist?
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:54:16 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
To: Bigg Red
You’re correct, that was he.
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:58:55 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
To: Tax-chick
What an image. I like it. :)
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posted on
02/26/2014 1:59:44 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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