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Spike Lee rants about gentrification - New York's black culture being erased by white residents
dailymail. ^ | 26 February 2014 | By Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 02/26/2014 12:11:24 PM PST by dennisw

The Brooklyn-raised director launched into an argument about the drawbacks of gentrification Compared Fort Greene Park to the 'motherf*****' Wesminster Dog Show' because it is so clean Lee was raised in Brooklyn but has lived in the Upper East Side since 2000

Spike Lee went on a long-winded rant against gentrification in New York City on Tuesday night when he was asked to argue against the development of poorer neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Harlem.

The director, who has focused on racial issues and gentrification in his films, blasted an audience member at the Pratt Institute who started defending the changes in the neighborhoods.

'Let me just kill you right now,' Lee said to the unidentified questioner.

Lee pointed the finger at white New Yorkers who have moved into historically black neighborhoods and changed the environment, arguing that those changes have caused the areas to evolve into something completely different.

'Here’s the thing: I grew up here in Fort Greene. I grew up here in New York. It’s changed. And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better?' he said.

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'The garbage wasn’t picked up every mother*****’ day when I was living in 165 Washington Park. P.S. 20 was not good. P.S. 11. Rothschild 294. The police weren’t around.

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

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1 posted on 02/26/2014 12:11:24 PM PST by dennisw
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But he’s not a racist.


2 posted on 02/26/2014 12:12:59 PM PST by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: dennisw
Spike Lee rants

Dog bites man.

3 posted on 02/26/2014 12:14:07 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: dennisw

I’m just thinking what the MSM would say if it was the other way round; a white guy talking about what’s happened to the Italian/Jewish/etc. neighborhoods taken over the opposite way ...


4 posted on 02/26/2014 12:15:16 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice.)
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To: dennisw

Better that they remain decrepit, crime-infested Hellholes.


5 posted on 02/26/2014 12:15:26 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Shoot cops that shoot dogs.)
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And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better?’ he said.

Because maybe they don’t trash it out as much and respect property? Just sayin’ homey.


6 posted on 02/26/2014 12:15:58 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: dennisw
Maybe Spike Lee can get a map of New York City and draw red lines around the districts he doesn't want to allow whites to move into.
7 posted on 02/26/2014 12:16:06 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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To: dennisw
Lee pointed the finger at white New Yorkers who have moved into historically black neighborhoods and changed the environment, arguing that those changes have caused the areas to evolve into something completely different.

Lee pointed the finger at black New Yorkers who have moved into historically white neighborhoods and changed the environment, arguing that those changes have caused the areas to evolve into something completely different.

Notice the difference?

8 posted on 02/26/2014 12:16:42 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better?' he said.

Gee, I don't know. Maybe it is because they don't p*ss in the elevators. Or smoke crack on their front stoops? Or toss their trash down the stairways? Ya think?

9 posted on 02/26/2014 12:16:50 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: dennisw

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

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Sure does. The order to kill them cracker babies was not taken seriously.


10 posted on 02/26/2014 12:16:58 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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the weird thing is, I’ve liked several of his movies. He actually can be subtle and insightful in that format.

John Savage played a mostly sympathetic white homesteader in Bed Stuy in “Do The Right Thing”


11 posted on 02/26/2014 12:16:59 PM PST by babble-on
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Don’t look now, Spike, but there’s been millions of black abortions concurrent with the arrival of tens of millions of Hispanic illegals. What do you think of that wholesale population replacement?


12 posted on 02/26/2014 12:17:59 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Cowboy Bob

less crime, less decay, MORE mixed racially

oh how horrile for Spike Lee


13 posted on 02/26/2014 12:18:07 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: dennisw

But I bet ole Spike doesn’t own a house in any of those ghetto neighborhoods.


14 posted on 02/26/2014 12:18:16 PM PST by circlecity
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How’s he going to be able to make money by making movies about terrible neighborhoods if whitey fixes them all up?


15 posted on 02/26/2014 12:18:20 PM PST by jiggyboy
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To: Arm_Bears

You can bet that Thug Lee doesn’t still live in a decrepit, crime-infested Hellhole.

He must be mad that white people cleaned them up.


16 posted on 02/26/2014 12:18:38 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: dennisw

Maybe he should be ranting about Planned Parenthood and their ongoing genocide of black babies.


17 posted on 02/26/2014 12:18:42 PM PST by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: dennisw

But of course the moron forgot to mention that the white and immigrant culture was wiped out by the black culture before this.


18 posted on 02/26/2014 12:19:20 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: dennisw
Spike Lee went on a long-winded rant against gentrification in New York City on Tuesday night when he was asked to argue against the development of poorer neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Harlem....

Lee pointed the finger at white New Yorkers who have moved into historically black neighborhoods and changed the environment, arguing that those changes have caused the areas to evolve into something completely different.

Typical Liberal. He doesn't want blacks to do any better either. He thinks they should be proud of their squalor and dependency. But he managed to move out of the "poor" neighborhood that was inhabited primarily of African Americans.

No Hypocrisy here.

19 posted on 02/26/2014 12:19:57 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: dennisw

Black culture?

Baby mommies and daddies. Food stamps. Mother’s Day. Gangsta. Hold your gun like ‘this’. Obamaphones. Welfare checks. Colt45. Thug Ball. Keep your pimp hand strong.

Such a rich culture I could go on forever


20 posted on 02/26/2014 12:20:47 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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