I guess Lee is going to DONATE all of the money from this film to NEW ORLEANS rebuilding?!!! /sarcasm
He is concerned about ONE THING, his bank account.
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the film reminds viewers that although Katrina shattered the entire Gulf Coast, New Orleans and its mostly black residents got hit especially hard
Cameras follow trumpeter Terence Blanchard, the longtime composer for Lee’s films and a New Orleans native, as he and his mother visit the family home in the Gentilly Woods section of the city for the first time since the flood. “Oh Lord have mercy,” weeps Wilhelmina Blanchard, nearly hysterical. “You can rebuild this stuff,” Terence murmurs, clutching her shoulders. “That’s easier said than done,” she says. “I knew it was devastation but I didn’t think it was this bad.”
“We want this film to spur action,” he said. “Things still aren’t right. People are still suffering.”
Lee says he’s considering a follow-up documentary to “Levees,” perhaps focusing on how New Orleans’ black middle class has been gutted, and what that may mean to the city.
Total horse hockey. I'd venture to guess that the majority of the black residents of New Orleans who were displaced didn't even OWN their homes, so what did they lose except their personal possessions and a place to lay their heads? If they were on any sort of welfare, they came out ahead of everyone else because they can still get that welfare check no matter where they live.
I feel sorry for the black and white people of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, poor, middle class and rich, who lost the homes they OWNED and had absolutely NOTHING left. Their net worth was likely mostly tied up in that property, so they had nothing with which to start over. Many have not been able to start re-building their lives because they've been waiting for their insurance companies to determine what, if any, money they would receive for the destruction of their homes. Many folks will come out of it owing tens of thousands on mortgages for homes that simply are not there, and they have to replace them from their own pockets. Many are doing so, slowly, but the other major holdup has been that many businesses have not yet re-opened, so these folks still have no jobs.
Spike Lee is such an opportunist, he disgusts me.