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Spike Lee Believes Hollywood Is Racist
Starpulse.com ^ | 2.20.06

Posted on 02/20/2006 10:06:38 AM PST by gopwinsin04

Spike Lee has attacked Hollywood studios for not including African-Americans as executives.

The director is appalled that the major studios only recruit white men and women for executive positions.

He tells the style magazine Complex, "You go to any studio, the only black guy you see is the one at the gate.'

'In Hollywood there is not one African American who is an executive that has a gatekeeper postion to greenlight a picture.'

He added, 'They will make a movie with Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx or Eddie Murphy because they can make money off of them.'

'The studios might think that there is diversity because four white women run studios.'

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: hollywood; marsblackmon; potkettleblack; spikeleeisaracist
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I'm guessing Spikes funding is drying up for his movies, time for a shakedown!
1 posted on 02/20/2006 10:06:39 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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A bunch of Nihilistic Uber-Marxists are Racist?
Say it ain't so!
2 posted on 02/20/2006 10:08:38 AM PST by bikepacker67 (Mohammed's Mother wears Army Boots)
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To: gopwinsin04

Little Spike Lee should talk to Michael Moore.


3 posted on 02/20/2006 10:08:58 AM PST by TexasCajun
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'They will make a movie with Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx or Eddie Murphy because they can make money off of them.'

I don't know what that's such a bad thing. That's the only reason anyone every gave me a job, and I'm a white guy!

4 posted on 02/20/2006 10:09:07 AM PST by krb (ad hominem arguments are for stupid people)
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Spike should fit right in, being a weasly litle racist himself.


5 posted on 02/20/2006 10:09:35 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: gopwinsin04

Spike does have a point, would a black man have approved "Brokeback Mountain?"


6 posted on 02/20/2006 10:09:47 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: gopwinsin04

Spike's a great one to talk about being racist.


7 posted on 02/20/2006 10:09:49 AM PST by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate our country.)
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To: TexasCajun

That was my first thought.


8 posted on 02/20/2006 10:10:02 AM PST by MarkeyD (Make Love, Not Cartoons. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: gopwinsin04
The all-purpose headline:

Spike Lee Believes ___________ Is Racist

9 posted on 02/20/2006 10:10:04 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Spike Lee Believes Hollywood Is Racist

His little corner of it certainly is.

10 posted on 02/20/2006 10:10:06 AM PST by Klatuu
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To: gopwinsin04

Jungle Fever
Do the Right Thing
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How about his comments about hating it when he sees interracial couples?

He needs a good ass kicking


11 posted on 02/20/2006 10:10:06 AM PST by misterrob (Islam is a hate crime)
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To: gopwinsin04

Sheldon Lee's only real talent is for race racketeering..


12 posted on 02/20/2006 10:10:28 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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"He added, 'They will make a movie with Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx or Eddie Murphy because they can make money off of them.'"

And they make movies with other people because they're white.

But then...there are probably many opportunities on the horizon for blacks if they're homosexual.

13 posted on 02/20/2006 10:11:09 AM PST by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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Another liberal whiner. "It's not that I make bad, boring movies that no one wants to see--it's that The Man is prejudiced against me! It couldn't be my fault, because nothing is my fault! I'm a victim!"

What a sad way to live.

14 posted on 02/20/2006 10:11:15 AM PST by American Quilter (Lucidity of speech is one of the surest tests of mental precision. - David Lloyd George)
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"Spike Lee's Pungent Protest Points To a Plantation Paradigm"

(maybe there's a word of the day in that protracted prose!)

15 posted on 02/20/2006 10:12:29 AM PST by Young Werther
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Ummm... SPIKE LEE is racist.


16 posted on 02/20/2006 10:12:42 AM PST by nuffsenuff (Don't get stuck on Stupid - General Russ Honore Sept 21, 2005)
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To: gopwinsin04

When a multi-millionaire claims that he isn't treated fairly by the folks who helped him make his money, what does one say?


17 posted on 02/20/2006 10:12:48 AM PST by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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To: American Quilter

Exactly, no one wants to see his crappy movies anymore so all he can do is whine!


18 posted on 02/20/2006 10:12:55 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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I believe Spike Lee is racist.


19 posted on 02/20/2006 10:14:16 AM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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I'm still waiting for Spike Lee, Jesse Jackass and Al Sharpton to call for an investigation of the huge racial imbalance of the players in the NBA and NFL.


*crickets chirping*
20 posted on 02/20/2006 10:14:20 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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