Spike Lee rants about gentrification - New York's black culture being erased by white residents

dailymail. ^ | 26 February 2014 | By Daily Mail Reporter

[buwaya]

Pretty much that.
The rent is too d*** high, as the other fellow put it.

[wideawake]

white New Yorkers who have moved into historically black neighborhoods

There are no "historically black neighborhoods" in NYC - not even Harlem - that weren't previously white neighborhoods.

Spike Lee likes to talk about history a lot, but doesn't like to read it.

[trisham]

I disliked his first movie, and never watched anything else he did.

[Tax-chick]

I’ve never seen a single one, just read about them.

[trisham]

The only thing you’ve missed is being annoyed.

[right way right]

“Boys in the hood”
Spike must think its a comedy movie.

[CodeToad]

What I got our of his racist rant is that he thinks blacks makes for bad neighborhoods and white make for safer neighborhoods.

[Vendome]

White removes blight....

Don’t understand the problem.

No one’s telling em they can’t peddle drugs and practice acts of violence elsewhere....

[eyedigress]

Poor Spike wants to go back to the Reagan years, he is just to stupid to know it.

[windsorknot]

Preserve the crime-infested ghettos!

[dljordan]

“’When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o’clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something.”

Why, yes it does Mr. Spike but I don’t think you want to know what it is.

[Talisker]

So how would the media cover it if some WHITE guy responded to Spike Lee in a public forum by cutting him off and saying “let me just kill you right now”?

Hmmm... lemme think...

[Responsibility2nd]

Yep. Oh, and brothers cant play “mother*****’ African drums in Mount Morris Park” anymore.

Pity.

[surrey]

My parents fled Brooklyn in 1954 for Long Island. What had been a lovely neighborhood was quickly going down hill. It’s done a complete turn around in the past few years with brownstones selling in the millions.

[Tax-chick]

Any time I miss an opportunity to be annoyed, that’s good. One can only drink so much and still be functional ...

[trisham]

Heh. :)

[miss marmelstein]

Yeah, and my father lived there from 1931 on when his father lost everything in the crash and they were forced out of Manhattan into Brooklyn. It’s called a cycle, you stupid man.

[12th_Monkey]

He’s just pissed because he has a dogs name.

[Tax-chick]

But seriously, we’re always being told we “have to” see this or that movie for some reason, but I never do. It’s all entertainment, and if I don’t think it’s going to entertain me, I don’t have a dime or minute for it.

Maybe I’ve missed some movies I would have liked, but oh well. I don’t have time to watch all the stuff on my Netflix queue as it is.

[Zionist Conspirator]

“There goes the neighborhood!”