Spike Lee: ‘There Is a War on the Black Male’

The National Review's The Corner ^ | August 19, 2014 | Andrew Johnson

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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.)

[freeangel]

I think all cops should be pulled from black areas and let them have at each other. No harm no foul for any officer.

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“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.”

You should test that theory, but when you gather your data, gather all of it, not just the data you like best.

When you have all of the data, look at it closely for cause and effect relationships relating to the black family before and after the "great" society welfare reforms of FDR, Johnson and others.

You might be surprised to discover that the political philosophy and "friends" you've come to trust and depend upon are not as they seem.

Study the data. Let it tell you what it wants to instead of what you want to hear.

If you do, you will find out what kept black families together back in the days before the dads disappeared, why dads disappeared and what they took with them.

Build on that discovery and this war you speak of will evaporate right before your very eyes!

[hal ogen]

Crappy filmmaker, talentless spike lee should keep his racist uninformed mouth shut. The guy has been smoking some bad juju. If it were a “war against black males” the degenerate idiot wouldn’t be worth many, many millions. Heck...someone would take it all from him by now. What a clueless, malignant idiot.

[DH]

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.

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I was at Wheelus AFB in Tripoli when we got our asses kicked out of Libya back in 99. It was the first indication that we had some really, really rough road ahead of us with the “rag-heads.” Now, it has come to pass.

48TFW A&E (F-100s)

[wac3rd]

Zimmerman or the cop?

[cableguymn]

The cop. earlier reports that he was black turned out to be wrong.

[jersey117]

Yep. Every weekend in chicago.

[cableguymn]