Spike Lee Gets Brutally Honest When Discussing Gentrification in Brooklyn

Complex City Guide ^ | 2/26/14 | Julian Kimble

[gleeaikin]

Know people who bought into a very rough neighborhood in the late ‘60s for around $20,000. They knew it would be rough, but the improvement was moving in that direction. Several break-ins, muggings, etc. later, houses in that block now sell for $1 million.

[BenLurkin]

That looks like Charlton Heston’s place in The Omega Man.

[wac3rd]

This is 100% happening in the Bay Area. If you bought in the Mission or in Potrero Hill in the 90’s you would be sitting pretty right now.

[BilLies]

What was the name of the Expressway in Detroit, Gary-IN, Baltimore, St Louis, East Saint Louis, Philadelphia, Camden, Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland. etc.? I believe they all contained the name: WhiteFlight or GetOutOfTownHonky..
Perhaps the NFL should have threatened to pull the Super Bowl out the cites with NFL teams.

[BilLies]

Them be the One-Percent.

[gleeaikin]

The family I mentioned paid their dues. The husband had his jaw broken and was wired up for 6 weeks, the house broken into 3 times. The wife exposed to certain unpleasantness as well. A decade later the husband was also mugged once, held up at gunpoint twice, and in protecting someone else being attacked on the street had his nose broken. Early “gentrification” is not for the faint of heart or naive.

[Impala64ssa]

and then move here and try to change everything.
Yeah, when I lived in Orange County, NY the yuppies who bought the overpriced mcmansions around the onion fields in Warwick, like clockword b!tch and complain about the slow moving farm vehicles that clog up the roads and the pesticildes that are "killing their children". Not to mention, on those hot sweltering days in July and August, the unmistakable aroma of cow manure wafting in the air. A similar situation by the dirt track in Middletown, they complain about the noise from races every Sat night in the spring and summer. HEY, SCHMUCKS! you knew where you were moving to, what did you expect?

[John Galt's cousin]

At some point it crosses MLK Blvd. That is usually not the place to look for a gas station with a clean restroom

[windcliff]

Inglewood was also like that.

[DeltaZulu]

Profanity is a small mind attempting to speak with force.

[RightOnTheBorder]

None of that matters to Lee. He is a black supremesist bigot. Ever lie he tells and every truth he lets slip is to further cause of making whites second class citizens. Viewed through that prism even his illogical statements make sense.

[hosepipe]

Obviously Spike hosted a conference to finalize proper Honkification Standards..
Al mulattoes are equal except some are more Honkyified than others..

There MUST be rules in abrogating conservative blacks..
Can’t have blacks “waking up” en mass getting all OUTRAGED...

[CincyRichieRich]

pigeon-toed, pipsqueek punk azz rasis...

[FrdmLvr]

Amazing what a bitter person he is.

[publius911]

Bookmark

[SuziQ]

Hmmm. If Spike Lee bought an old home in a run down Brooklyn neighborhood, and fixed it up, would he be called a “gentrifier”, or is that term saved for whites who do the same thing?

[ExCTCitizen]

Hey Spike, let me guess -- you don't live in Brooklyn with your race. Am I correct?

I bet you aren't living in a 2 bedroom apartment either, so STFU.

[cunning_fish]

[Straight Vermonter]

I love seeing the Volvos and Beemers impatiently following the farm vehicles and getting splattered by the “mud” coming off the tires.