i used to think this FPOS was just short, i see i was wrong... he's merely small.
Posted on 03/04/2006 10:48:42 AM PST by Deek1969
Firebrand director Spike Lee has found an unlikely new target for his latest spray: the secretary of state.
Says Lee: "I dislike Condoleezza Rice more than [President] Bush. The thing about it is that she's gotten a free ride from black people."
Oh no, he didn't.
"People say, 'She's so successful' and 'Look at her position as a black woman.' She is a black woman who grew up in Birmingham, Ala., and said that she never experienced a day of racism in her life," Lee tells the April issue of Stuff magazine.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Racist of colour, shurely?
Just ask Havoc. He hates everyone who is successful. And them tries to wish their success away into the cornfield.
Fresh Wind:
What you said is damned important. We had a meeting this week at my school as to what book freshmen (oops, first year students) should all read. The discussion focused relentlessly around what book we could use that would focus on empoverished minorities who did drugs and identified with "Brokeback Mountain." Ok, that's sarcastic--but not much.
I and another professor wanted to focus on what made people--regardless of color successful--and what would keep them successful. It was a disaster. Yet, if we taught our minority students about Condi Rice, instead of some downtown crack-dealer oppressed by (?), what better lesson could we teach them.
McVey
Spit Lee makes this sound like a bad thing. HE IS SICK, Isn't this what they want. But yet when Black's don't experience racism they ALSO complain.
I would ask why it is you feel the need to lie about people as you do. But, I won't. In your sort of politics, the ends justify the means.
Anything to keep his hatred going.
i used to think this FPOS was just short, i see i was wrong... he's merely small.
bingo
What an idiot!
Abuse filed.
Spike Lee, worthless puke. Makes living by biting the hand that feeds him. Self-hating white liberals love his routine.
His name is now Spike Flea.
Who is LESS qualified to complain about racism?
This is a flat-out lie. Here is Dr. Rice speaking at Commencement at Stanford in 2002:
The 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church was meant to suck hope out of the future by showing that hope could be killed -- child by child. My neighborhood friend, Denise McNair, was killed in that bombing, and though I didn't see it, I heard it a few blocks away. And it is a sound that I can still hear today. [whole speech here].
More about the bombing:
Rice remembers being frightened, by not only the church bombing but many others before and after. By this time, Birmingham was known to the world as Bombingham. One bomb devastated the home of the Rices' friend Arthur Shores, a prominent black lawyer for civil rights causes. A firebomb was tossed in Titusville, but didn't go off. Rice's father went to police headquarters to demand an investigation. "They didn't investigate," she says. "They never investigated."
That story, likes the following anecdotes, is from a profile in WaPost [read the whole article here] :
LONG AGO, in segregated Birmingham, on the children's floor of a downtown department store, a white saleslady spotted an exquisitely dressed black mother heading with her young daughter for fitting rooms reserved for whites only. The year was 1961, and downtown Birmingham was an apartheid society, with blacks assigned inferior status in where they ate, where they relieved themselves, even where little girls tried on pretty dresses.
The saleslady stepped into the path of the mother and child, took the dress from the little girl and motioned to a storage room. "She'll have to try it on in there," she said.
No sooner had the clerk laid down the law than the black mother upped the ante. Stepping coolly out of her caste as a "colored" woman, she addressed the clerk as the hired help she was: "My daughter will try on this dress in a dressing room, or I'm not spending my money here."
This was not the only such episode:
Condi Rice recalls another shopping trip when she saw a pretty hat and was touching it admiringly, when a white saleswoman snapped, as if addressing a dog, "Get your hands off that!" In an instant, Angelena Rice was warning the woman through clenched teeth, "Don't talk to my daughter that way," then lovingly instructing her little girl, "Condoleezza, go touch every hat in this store." Rice happily complied.
More from the same article:
FROM INSIDE HER PARENTS' MODEST, two-bedroom bungalow at the corner of Center Way and Ninth Terrace, Condi Rice saw herself as just one of the girls. All her playmates lived in an all black, upwardly mobile world. From school to church to ballet classes, they all had the same watchwords – "twice as good," which meant you had to be twice as good as white kids to pull even (three times as good to pass them).
Racism was always there, "but so there – there all the time – that you ceased to notice its existence," Rice recalls. If children asked about it, she and her friends remember, grown-ups often responded, "Don't worry about it. It's not your problem."
The present-day race establishment can't forgive Dr. Rice's insistence that her family were not passive victims waiting for an elite to liberate them. Of course she supports the original goals of the Civil Rights Movement, but she still tells Booker T. Washington's version of the story about race in America: that black people had the potential to undermine the system through education, dignity, and hard work. She believes that Washington's program was working, and that the Civil Rights movement only hastened the inevitable. I have the impression that she believes that black people like her family made the Civil Rights Movement possible by decades of slow, patient labor.
It's ironic that her perspective is sometimes shrugged off as the viewpoint of "privileged" middle class blacks. How do they think that the Rices and Rays got to be middle class? The Booker T. Washington view was that ordinary black folk (like both of Dr. Rice's grandfathers!) could rise above the system by force of character. The dominant view today is that of WEB Du Bois, who always believed that ordinary "ignorant" black people needed to be rescued by an elite, whether by northern free blacks like himself or (at the end of his life) by the Communist Party.
Do The Right Thing Spike. STFU!
Condi to Spike:
Be Seeing you,
Chris
Spike Lee should GET A JOB!
That's a dang lie. Condi stated that her father tried to register as a Democrat when Blacks were given the right to vote and they refused to register him so he registered as a Republican and voted.
And he complains about her buying designer boots all the while he gets center seats in the first row to the LA Laker basketball games? What a hypocrit.
LOL - thank you for the great definition!!
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