Posted on 03/01/2014 3:05:35 AM PST by oblomov
It’s interesting that the director of the richest oeuvre of black films in the history of the medium doesn’t understand what the Civil Rights revolution was for. In his expletive-laced comments about the gentrification of Fort Greene during an interview at the Pratt Institute, Spike Lee seemed to think that what we Overcame for was to be grouchy bigots.
Basically, black people are getting paid more money than they’ve ever seen in their lives for their houses, and a once sketchy neighborhood is now quiet and pleasant. And this is a bad thing… why?
Lee seems to think it’s somehow an injustice whenever black people pick up stakes. But I doubt many of the blacks now set to pass fat inheritances on to their kids feel that way. This is not the old story of poor blacks being pushed out of neighborhoods razed down for highway construction. Lee isn’t making sense.
“Respect the culture” when you move in, Lee growls. But again, he isn’t making sense. We can be quite sure that if whites “respected” the culture by trying to participate in it, Lee would be one of the first in line to call it “appropriation.” So, no whites better open up barbecue joints or spoken word cafes or try to be rappers. Yet if whites walk on by the culture in “respectful” silence, then the word on the street becomes that they want to keep blacks at a distance.
In his interview with Anderson Cooper on Wednesday to clarify, Lee mentioned the controversy in Harlem some years ago over park drumming, which new white residents protested. Lee thinks whites were supposed to put up with being woken up on weekend mornings by the drums. That was a subtle issue.
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Tell that to the illegals and Muslims.
Spike is one of the racist jerks that keeps adding fuel to the fire :/
spike lee is such a hypocrite. The wealthy talentless fool made his money then skipped to a tonier neighborhood in a massive townhouse and continues to spew his racist crap. What a poltroon.
Maybe I F***ed his mother, but I am certainly no Hipster.
Forget Ft. Greene. Your dollar will go much farther in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Buy what remaining unrenovated brownstones are left and watch real estate prices double and triple over the next decade.
Tell that to the illegals and Muslims.
IMHO the post of the day, so far.
FMCDH(BITS)
Has he tried saying this to La Raza?
NO.
Now the bass solo begins...
If the "fires" (of racism) ever went out, Spike Lee and other race hustlers (like Jackson and Sharpton) would have to fine a new angle to make their cash.
Ah, but the wealthy Lee doesn't see himself as an "aggreieved racist". I'll bet he is sure that negroes, like himself, cannot be racist no matter what they say or how they act toward others.
My wife’s first comment too
Lee is the first black hipster
OK Spikey boy. But don't complain when some honkey does a driveby on your crib.
I believe its because russians typically are immune to appeals to racial consciousness. They just don't care about black grievance & I guess blacks, although they may not like it, tend to respect that.
There's your answer to the problem of race relations in America, right there. IMO.
Yeah, I remember when Krinton was being touted as the first black president. I’ll bet ole Spike was nearly bursting a blood vessel over that.
I wonder if Spike has any comment for Hitlery rolling into NY and becoming a senator 5 minutes after she got there.
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