2007-01-24 02:47:01 · 12 answers · asked by portraitoftracy222 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
Yes. I am glad someone else realizes this.
2007-01-24 02:49:19 · answer #1 · answered by Melissa 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Spike Lee grew up in Cobble Hill an historically Italian Neighborhood. So I guess he felt presecuted, but Cobble Hill is not Watts or Brownsville or East New York. It is and has been a quiet upscale (formerly middle class increasingly upper middle class as the standards decline) area. Spike Lee had professional parents and if they were living in Cobble they weren't doing too badly. Spike does not fit the mold of the physically assured black man (he is very small and probably not too athletic). While ethnic and racial divides in the once blue collar but ever more gentrified (Midwestern white now) burrough were very real and not to be discounted I don't think Spike caught the worst of it by a far sight. His complaint seems to amount to, "Some Italian guys weren't particularly nice to me as a kid, and I hate them all." Like most fake-revolutionary-director (I include Tarantino in this Stone whose movies I like less than either still gets points in my book for leaving Yale to go to Nam when he really didn't have to (Same reason I voted McCain (seriously anyone who gets tortured for this country for five years gets points in my book(it's a better credential than most)))). Anyway, whatever his complaint I think its very easy to hate a community, white black or other, when you are not held immediately accountable for your opinions.
2016-05-24 04:12:38 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...I don't think he's ever said that. Are you basing that question on the fact that some of the movies he's made deal with race relations? (i.e. Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, He Got Game).
Not all of his films do...(i.e. 25th Hour, Kings of Comedy, Summer of Sam, Girl 6).
Please elaborate......
2007-01-24 03:06:57 · answer #3 · answered by YSIC 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm pretty sure he hates everybody. It's a Napoleon complex. He just has the good sense not to criticize Black people because he knows they are his key demographic.
2007-01-24 03:18:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think he hates white people. I think he's bringing issues that deal mainly with blacks on the big screen. I think he wants blacks to be able to relate to characters they see in movies.
2007-01-24 04:20:10 · answer #5 · answered by baadfishii_35 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. A perfect example of reverse racism for you.
2007-01-24 02:55:18 · answer #6 · answered by Cunnilinguist 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nah, he just thinks he's the only one who knows how to be Black.
2007-01-24 03:05:42 · answer #7 · answered by HipHopGrandma 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hows he rascist? i dont really pay attention to anything he says or does. i'm not tryin to come off as defending him but whats he done?
2007-01-24 03:02:39 · answer #8 · answered by AmandaRae 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't know where this came from. But do you have any facts or theories on why you would ask this!?!? I don't think so
2007-01-24 02:51:39 · answer #9 · answered by kcal60616 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
OF COURSE!!.... but no one would call him a racist....only whites can be racist...right?....lol
2007-01-24 02:52:10 · answer #10 · answered by voiceofreason 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋