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Spike Lee: ‘There Is a War on the Black Male’
The National Review's The Corner ^ | August 19, 2014 | Andrew Johnson

Posted on 08/19/2014 10:39:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Filmmaker Spike Lee weighed in on the death of Michael Brown and said the “uprising” in Ferguson, Mo., is in response to years of racial tension and mistreatment towards the black community in the United States. “When people get to a point — to that tipping point — they can’t take it anymore,” Lee said on CNN on Tuesday, listing the tragedies involving Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Rodney King, and others.

While he seemed to disapprove of looting and burning property, Lee also said that he “just hope[s] that things will really blow up if people aren’t happy with the verdict of this upcoming trial.”

The deaths of Brown, Martin, Garner, and others are extreme examples of a growing trend in America, he continued.

“I just think there is a war on the black male, and it’s tearing the country apart, in my opinion,” Lee said. “It’s not just killing us — it’s educational system, it’s the prison system, it’s these young black men growing up with no hope. It’s systematic.”

Earlier in the interview, Lee also questioned the validity of the account of a friend of Officer Darren Wilson, who killed Brown, which was substantially more favorable to the officer than other witnesses’ accounts. Lee said the timing of the friend’s statement was orchestrated and said she’d been reading from a script.

Lee infamously involved himself in the media frenzy surrounding the 2012 Trayvon Martin case, at one point distributing to his hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers what he thought was the address to the house of Martin’s killer. (The address ended up belonging to an elderly Florida couple, who received a series of death threats in the subsequent months.)


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; ferguson; racism; spikelee
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The deck is stacked against them. In fact, i am going to start a crusade to bring awareness and shutdown colleges that do not allow black people, trade schools that do not allow black people, any scholarship or financial aid program that does not allow black people. And to make everything fair, all court cases involving black defendents should be dropped


41 posted on 08/19/2014 11:41:25 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree...

There IS a war on black males, but it is a war with OTHER black males, as evidenced every single night in our Democrat-run inner-city hellholes.

Oopsy...
That might make a DEMOCRAT look bad, so we can’t talk about THAT.


42 posted on 08/19/2014 11:42:12 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“When people get to a point — to that tipping point — they can’t take it anymore,”

What Spike Lee is REALLY saying is that the “tipping point” is when you're so bored being unemployed, dropping out of school, hanging out, collecting food stamps, using drugs, making babies and abandoning them, carjacking, burning down houses, Rapping all day, smoking, robbing and killing YOUR OWN African_American Brothers...then, at some point, you snap, can't take all the boredom no more. You go nuts, you gotta lash out at White cops because they are the reason for your own downfall...

Thanks for clearing that up Spike.

43 posted on 08/19/2014 11:46:06 PM PDT by Netz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Here’s the thing. I grew up in Fort Greene ["minorities"]...

... Lee, who now lives on the Upper East Side ["white privileged"]

44 posted on 08/19/2014 11:48:42 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Boomshakalaka!)
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To: rolling_stone

Rodney King was not available for comment...


45 posted on 08/19/2014 11:58:56 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Black shoots black - crickets.
Black shoots white - crickets.
White shoots black - all hell breaks loose.
46 posted on 08/20/2014 12:22:46 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What verdict of what upcoming trial??


47 posted on 08/20/2014 12:23:09 AM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trial, what Trial?

Spike must have been talking to Governor Nixon.


48 posted on 08/20/2014 12:36:04 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Things can always be worse and the Democrat Party is here to prove it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dear Spike,

Not yet, but keep trying.

Love,

George


49 posted on 08/20/2014 1:31:07 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
" “uprising” in Ferguson, Mo., is in response to years of racial tension and mistreatment towards the black community in the United States."

Ok, who is causing the racial tension and who is mistreating the black community. Name them!

50 posted on 08/20/2014 1:37:43 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sure, Spike. Whatever you say. {Yawn}


51 posted on 08/20/2014 1:51:27 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>>“I just think there is a war on the black male, and it’s tearing the country apart, in my opinion,” Lee said. “It’s not just killing us — it’s educational system, it’s the prison system, it’s these young black men growing up with no hope. It’s systematic.”

The education system in many black majority cities has been run by blacks for decades. Fat lot of good that has done, eh, Spike?


52 posted on 08/20/2014 2:35:45 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

....by the black male


53 posted on 08/20/2014 2:57:40 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can anyone point me to the Caucasian riots during the Great Depression?


54 posted on 08/20/2014 2:59:54 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The rules of a civilized society are completely violated by a large portion of both black (and brown) people.

Obedience to laws, social graces, personal responsibility, work ethic, and most of all...individualism are absent from their list of rules to live by. The minority who do have those traits are looked down upon and excluded from their putrid society (if you want to call a society).

In 1964 LBJ “let the dogs loose” on society with the total destruction of our society with “The Great Society” and the damage it has done is catastrophic. The political “bullet” has hit its target.....PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and INDIVIDUALITY! They all swim as a school of fish following whatever is the fad of the day.

Granted, there are millions of good and decent black and brown people out there but their society is quickly being eaten away by the cancer of irresponsibility.


55 posted on 08/20/2014 3:10:55 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Mark17

“I was in England in 1983, while in the USAF...”

It was the same way at Lakenheath in 1967.


56 posted on 08/20/2014 3:15:23 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
that things will really blow up if people aren’t happy with the verdict of this upcoming trial.”

death whether he's guilty or innocent

57 posted on 08/20/2014 3:15:51 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stand up Spike,oh,God love ya you are!


58 posted on 08/20/2014 3:31:56 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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Spike Lee: ‘There Is a War on the Black Male’

In the week and a half since Brown was killed how many Black males were killed by other Black males in Chicago and New York and New Orleans and Houston? If there is a war on Black males then it's a civil war.

59 posted on 08/20/2014 3:36:02 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DH
It was the same way at Lakenheath in 1967.

Lakenheath is where I was, plus Mildenhall and Greenham Common. I was TDY from Germany. I was in the Control Tower at Greenham Common, when a C-5 landed with the first ground launched cruise missiles on board. This was a month after the Marine Barracks in Beirut had been bombed, when we saw a vehicle heading across the runway, straight for the C-5 on the ramp. Two USAF security police vehicles stopped him cold. As it turns out, there were no explosives in the car, but those cops did not know that.

I see that not much had changed in that time period, in reference to the subject we were discussing. It is probably still the same now too, if those USAFE bases are still open.

60 posted on 08/20/2014 4:19:40 AM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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