Posted on 01/16/2013 7:56:00 AM PST by chessplayer
Former 2 Live Crew rapper turned music promoter and VH1 star Luther Campbell isn't pleased with Spike Lee's comments about filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and the new movie "Django Unchained."
Writing at his Miami NewTimes blog Tuesday, Campbell called Lee "Hollywood's resident house negro."
For those unfamiliar with the controversy, Lee has come down strongly on Tarantino for amongst other things his excessive use of the N-word in the film.
"Show me a white man in the 1800s who wasn't dropping n-bombs left and right," Campbell responded.
"Lee needs to get over himself," Campbell continued. "He's upset because Tarantino makes better movies. The man who put Malcolm X on the big screen is Hollywood's resident house negro; a bougie activist who wants to tell his fellow white auteurs how they can and can't depict African Americans."
"Lee could never pull off a movie like this," said Campbell as he crescendoed toward a conclusion. "When he's not being an ass from his court side seats during New York Knicks games, he's making bull crap films that most African Americans cannot relate to."
"Spike is upset because Samuel L. Jackson's character in the movie is just like him," Campbell added, "a conniving and scheming Uncle Tom."
“He cannot make a decent film himself, so angrily lashes out at anyone who can.”
Not to mention he has short man syndromee from only being 4’ nothing!
The word in question is derived from the Latin adjective niger-nigra-nigrum, meaning “black”. It would have been value neutral at the time, only gaining its pejorative connotation since Reconstruction.
Cambell makes Spike Lee look good.
How can we help nurture this wonderful internecine warfare progress to the next several levels?
Interesting. Since Django is set before Reconstruction, the pejorative use of word in question in the film is inaccurate?
I’m not an expert in this subject, that’s an educated guess. The fact that blacks themselves use the word affectionately or casually in addressing each other suggests that it hasn’t always been an insult to them.
I guess neither of you bothered to read the article. The rapper was criticizing Spike Lee for being too pro-white. But heck, if you’re a Freeler, why bother to read the article before sounding off? Nobody else does.
I did read the article. What are you complaining about?
Because most of the commenters got it all wrong. The rapper was charging Spike Lee, who made some reasonable complaints about Tarantino’s odious film, of being a bourgeois white lackey. So why are people cheering for the rapper?
I will give you the fact that the article was very poorly written and probably many people didn’t have any idea what the point of it was.
You said it best, they’re ALL idiots.
Well I most certainly never cheered for either of them.
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