Spike Lee's racist, vulgar rant...

[unsmiley 111]

This, from the little racist that has been living for years in the lily white Upper East Side of Manhattan in a multimillion dollar mansion, complaining about gentrification in Brooklyn and Harlem...

Then comes the motherf--in' Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can't discover this! We been here. You just can't come and bogart. There were brothers playing motherf--in' African drums in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can't do it anymore because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud. My father's a great jazz musician. He bought a house in nineteen-motherf--in'-sixty-eight, and the motherf--kin' people moved in last year and called the cops on my father. He's not — he doesn't even play electric bass! It's acoustic! We bought the motherf--kin' house in nineteen-sixty-motherf--in'-eight and now you call the cops? In 2013? Get the fu-k outta here!

These real estate motherf--ers are changing names! Stuyvestant Heights? 110th to 125th, there's another name for Harlem. What is it? What? What is it? No, no, not Morningside Heights. There's a new one. [Audience: SpaHa] What the fu-k is that? How you changin' names?

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/02/26/spike_lee_delivers_epic_antigentrification_rant.php

Courtesy of Curbed.com - (FYI I had to edit the MF and F words with dashes, but I am sure you get the idea.)

[deleted-05292014 331]

He's not a racist & he is correct in his assessment.

[unsmiley 111]

Utterly racist, and ignorant.

As many of the commenters have pointed out on the link, the neighborhoods he is ranting about were white well before blacks moved in. Yet somehow they are "his" neighborhoods.

[deleted-05292014 331]

Utterly racist, and ignorant.

As many of the commenters have pointed out on the link, the neighborhoods he is ranting about were white well before blacks moved in. Yet somehow they are "his" neighborhoods.

So it's now "racist" to point out "racist" ? Do you see the problem with your statement you just made. I really don't understand your logic.

[lostinblue 1,989]

He is as racist as can be. Modern day archie bunker... You thought he was racist...... Jeffersons moving next door . Just don't have any white people move into the neighborhood... If a white person said that Jessie would be having a boycott by now. What if he said I don't want a gay white person moving into the neighborhood. How would you feel about that ?Maybe some one will be along here and give him a PASS

[unsmiley 111]

So it's now "racist" to point out "racist" ? Do you see the problem with your statement you just made. I really don't understand your logic.

I am afraid I do not understand your comment. My point is clear.

[deleted-05292014 331]

He is as racist as can be. Modern day archie bunker... You thought he was racist...... Jeffersons moving next door . Just don't have any white people move into the neighborhood... If a white person said that Jessie would be having a boycott by now. What if he said I don't want a gay white person moving into the neighborhood. How would you feel about that ?Maybe some one will be along here and give him a PASS

HUH ?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

right wingers...lol.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Utterly racist, and ignorant.

As many of the commenters have pointed out on the link, the neighborhoods he is ranting about were white well before blacks moved in. Yet somehow they are "his" neighborhoods.

He is as racist as can be. Modern day archie bunker... You thought he was racist...... Jeffersons moving next door . Just don't have any white people move into the neighborhood... If a white person said that Jessie would be having a boycott by now. What if he said I don't want a gay white person moving into the neighborhood. How would you feel about that ?Maybe some one will be along here and give him a PASS

I knew this would make it here sooner or later. I also knew you and those that think like you would call this racist. I'll try to explain but somehow I think it will fall on deaf ears:

1. His first point is when you have middle/upper class white people move into this type of neighborhood, the property value goes up. The folks that have been living there(read: poor minorities) now have to move because they can no longer afford to live in a place they're inhabited for the last 40 years. He uses the Christopher Columbus reference meaning they've already been living there, you can't discover something that's already been found. There's no way a few black people could move to an all white neighborhood and turn the name from Sunny Side Groves to Hood Rich.

2. His MAIN reason for the rant was the abundance of government services that followed the white people into his neighborhood when they showed up, which is why people were applauding. His family and others that had lived there for decades didn't get the trash picked up every day, nor did the cops come and police the area. He accurately asked why does it take white people coming into the neighborhood to change the system. The minorities who lived there first paid taxes like everyone else, yet the city didn't clean the streets. They paid their dues, yet the cops wouldn't respond to their calls. Now that there are some white people living there, they give a damn. When it was all black and hispanic, they didn't.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/us/new-york-spike-lee-gentrification/

Here's a link that explains what Lee was talking about:

There's good. But what cost? If we lose half of the African-American population, in my neighborhood, Fort Greene, and the schools become better, what happened to half the people that left?"

And he was angry that city services improved when the neighborhood profile changed.

"I just find it interesting you have to have an influx of white New Yorkers to move into these neighborhoods for the services to go up, for the schools to be better," he told CNN. "They get better sanitation, get more police protection. Why didn't that happened before gentrification? We're still paying taxes. We're still New Yorkers."

Edited February 28, 2014 by Su and Marvin

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

He does like to swear a bit, old Spike Lee. I still can't take him seriously after he threw his toys out of the pram because Quentin Tarantino made a better 'black' movie than he did.

Jackie Brown is better than pretty much anything Spike Lee has ever done.

[Karee 4,190]

Gotta love it. So the reason that some neighborhoods go bad when minorities move in is because of the lack of city services? And the reason they get better when white folks move back in is because the city services improve? Could it be that when the minorities moved in, they didn't take care of their own neighborhood? Keep their houses and yards up?

Talk about displaced blame.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Gotta love it. So the reason that some neighborhoods go bad when minorities move in is because of the lack of city services? And the reason they get better when white folks move back in is because the city services improve? Could it be that when the minorities moved in, they didn't take care of their own neighborhood? Keep their houses and yards up?

Talk about displaced blame.

So, you're reasoning that the cops that don't patrol the neighborhood is because they didn't cut the grass? It's been documented that when whites move out of a city and it's filled with minorities, the services go away. It's like that now in my city.

Why is this so hard for you to believe? My aunt lives in a diverse part of the city. When I took her home after Christmas dinner at my mom's house, my wife asked why the streets were clean on one block, yet ice and snow heavy on the others? I replied, because on the block that's clean, that's where white people live. My aunt said, is it that obvious? I said the houses look the same, but you can tell where black folks live by looking at the street.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

He does like to swear a bit, old Spike Lee. I still can't take him seriously after he threw his toys out of the pram because Quentin Tarantino made a better 'black' movie than he did.

Jackie Brown is better than pretty much anything Spike Lee has ever done.

You need to go back then. School Daze, Mo betta blues, hell Do the Right Thing is been recognized as culturally significant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_right_thing

The film was a commercial success and received numerous accolades and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Lee for Best Original Screenplayand one for Best Supporting Actor for Aiello's portrayal of Sal the pizzeria owner. It is often listed among the greatest films of all time.^[3][4][5][6] In 1999, it was deemed to be "culturally significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, one of just five films to have this honor in their first year of eligibility.

[Karee 4,190]

So, you're reasoning that the cops that don't patrol the neighborhood is because they didn't cut the grass? It's been documented that when whites move out of a city and it's filled with minorities, the services go away. It's like that now in my city.

Why is this so hard for you to believe? My aunt lives in a diverse part of the city. When I took her home after Christmas dinner at my mom's house, my wife asked why the streets were clean on one block, yet ice and snow heavy on the others? I replied, because on the block that's clean, that's where white people live. My aunt said, is it that obvious? I said the houses look the same, but you can tell where black folks live by looking at the street.

I lived it. In the 70s and early 80s. Guess what, where I lived the city was almost entirely run by black folks. Black mayor, and almost entirely black city council and city management. When the neighborhoods went to $hit then, was it because the black mayor and black city management were racist?

It's all a racist conspiracy Marvin. You're starting to remind me of these gun nuts and conspiracists that think the govt. is out to get them.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You need to go back then. School Daze, Mo betta blues, hell Do the Right Thing is been recognized as culturally significant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_right_thing

The film was a commercial success and received numerous accolades and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Lee for Best Original Screenplayand one for Best Supporting Actor for Aiello's portrayal of Sal the pizzeria owner. It is often listed among the greatest films of all time.^[3][4][5][6] In 1999, it was deemed to be "culturally significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, one of just five films to have this honor in their first year of eligibility.

So is Pulp Fiction.