Translation:
"When black people move into white neighborhoods, that is 'diversity,' which must be celebrated. When white people move into black neighborhoods, that is 'gentrification,' which must be fought with violence and vitriol."
Spike Lee had some harsh words for whites moving into predominantly black neighborhoods in New York City while speaking at a Black History Month lecture at Pratt Institute on Tuesday.
As 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria reported Wednesday, the director and Brooklyn native said that white newcomers to neighborhoods like Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant are doing the wrong things.
Lee told the audience that while he’s all for democracy, he doesn’t like that whites are trying to impose their standards and wealthy ideas on everyone and everything, D’Auria reported.
According to Lee, with white gentrification comes disruption. The entire rant was transcribed by New York magazine. Here’s an excerpt:
“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? The garbage wasn’t picked up every (expletive) 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.”
Some Fort Greene residents who spoke to D’Auria on Wednesday agreed that high-priced restaurants and bars that cater to whites could breed resentment.
“I’m not an old-timer, I go to these places. But I could imagine if I was – you’d feel excluded,” said Drew. “If an area that had been tolerant of or open to a certain kind of culture and then it’s changing. That could cause a lot of conflict. I can see that happening here.”
Meanwhile, Whyel told D’Auria that he doesn’t have a problem with the changes. He said if because of the whites the neighborhood improves, that’s great. And of Spike Lee’s complaints, “If he needs something to complain about focus on some other stuff: shootings, drugs.”
Rafeal said he doesn’t agree or disagree with Lee’s comments, but that he has noticed more white people in the neighborhood and doesn’t have a problem with it. “To me, everything is still the same. You know what I’m saying? Nothing’s changed. (It’s a good neighborhood?) Yeah, for both, for everybody to live out here.”
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/02/...n-fort-greene/
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...ification.html
I imagine all the white neighborhoods that used be really nice before the blacks moved in and they ended up turning into a crime infested shithole, used to say the same thing.
Translation:
"When black people move into white neighborhoods, that is 'diversity,' which must be celebrated. When white people move into black neighborhoods, that is 'gentrification,' which must be fought with violence and vitriol."
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Hey, white people weren't 19th century slaves. We've gotta give black people all the breathing room they need; even if it means white people have to stop breathing.
Vandal strikes Spike Lee's former family home in Brooklyn following his rant
Two homes on Washington Park were vandalized, including the Washington Park address Lee referenced in his angry tirade on gentrification. Graffiti and vandalism comes three days after Lee said Fort Greene looked like the 'm-----f-----g Westminster dog show.' The irate tagger hit Lee’s former home and neighbor.
One building on Washington Park had “Do the Right Thing” spray-painted on it and a window on the front door smashed, while Lee’s family’s home had the movie’s partial title written on the side of the stoop.
“I think that Spike needs to stop mentioning the house in his comments,” Lee’s half-brother Arnold, who lives at the home, told the Daily News.
“He can say whatever he wants, but don’t mention that.”
Dianne Mackenzie, whose property bore the brunt of the vandalism, said she’s sure that Lee’s recent comments prompted the damage. “I’m sure it’s directly connected with the remarks he made,” Mackenzie said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1706408
Is that the liberals favorite symbol I see in the pictures, the anarchist symbol???
America has gone from can Blacks and white coexist.
To can Conservatives and everybody else coexist!
KILL ALL WHITES
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
Why would any sane white person want to move into a negro neighborhood?
I never rented to negroes, muslimes or spics.
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Spike Lee is a racist. Black racism was the impetus for White Flight.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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