Spike Lee: Channelling America's black rage

I know I’ll be criticized for this, but Ive always found spike lee's films to be very ‘white’.

Dave Chappelle did the black Klansman thing over 15 years ago and I’m sure someone else had that idea before him.

What's he complaining about? He's rich and far better off than the average American.

While certainly his ancestors suffered terribly under slavery, he himself is doing great.

Is the average American getting sick of these race baiting, virtue signalling, limousine liberals? I am.

This years Oscars was certainly something, cringeworthy at times. Got to watch it last night. Still all about race in America it seems. It was way over the top in my books. Hopefully next year things will settle down and we can get on with celebrating art! Do like Spike Lee though. Loved Do The Right Thing back in the day!

People still wondering today it seems , more confused than ever what that right thing just might be?

It’s so easy for people to lash out at Hollywood for being too “white” because Hollywood isn’t really white. The film industry there was started in the 1910s by Jewish filmmakers who were trying to get away from the Edison Trust on the east coast and its monopoly on film creation and royalties that needed to be paid. If you wanted to make a movie you needed to buy cameras and projectors from Thomas Edison and use film from Eastman Kodak, also a member of the Edison Trust. Moving to California then made being sued much more difficult. Plus, LA has great weather.

So all of this talk of white Hollywood and how racist it is? Please. Even in Edison’s day, they made movies about what they thought would be most popular with the majority of people. If America becomes majority Finnish then they’ll make movies about Finnish people. It’s not discrimination.

Is the average American getting sick of these race baiting, virtue signalling, limousine liberals? I am.

I guess you'd have to ask an average American. But as a foreign type, I'm getting tired of the strawmen constantly being invoked in any topic that relates to the struggle for equality.

Lee spoke his mind. I thought Americans favored free speech? Or is that just when it comes to actual racists?

Lee spoke his mind. I thought Americans favored free speech?

Right-wingers frequently squeal about freedom of speech when someone criticizes what they say, then they go on to criticize what other people say.

Has there ever been a more pathetic group of people in the history of America?

Dave Chappelle did the black Klansman thing over 15 years ago

IIRC, Dave Chappelle's version was a blind black man being a member of the KKK because he doesn't know he's black, lol

Dave Chappelle did the black Klansman thing over 15 years ago and I’m sure someone else had that idea before him.

Um, yeah, his name was 'Ron Stallworth', and he was the guy upon whom this movie is based.

You do realize this movie is based on a true story, right? You weren't manufacturing outrage based on not bothering to educate yourself on what you were talking about, right?

...Right?

Ignore race baiters like Spike Lee, Al Sharpton, etc. and pay attention to the following wise words of Morgan Freeman:

MIKE WALLACE: How are we going to get rid of racism until …?

MORGAN FREEMAN: Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man. And I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You’re not going to say, “I know this white guy named Mike Wallace.” Hear what I’m saying?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/morgan-freeman-on-black-history-month/

Morgan Freeman gets it. That the key to good relations between the races is to ignore skin color and look at the person within. He knows that continually harping on about it makes an avoidable problem worse.

Unfortunately, some of these race baiters are more interested in virtue signalling than sincerely fostering good relations with others.

He has about as much in common with the average black American than I do with the average Nihonjin.

@Toasted Heretic, Strangerland,

Er, you guys do know that free speech doesnt preclude criticism of what is said, right?

Er, you guys do know that free speech doesnt preclude criticism of what is said, right?

I never said it did. Did you not read my comment?

Right-wingers frequently squeal about freedom of speech when someone criticizes what they say, then they go on to criticize what other people say.

I'm pointing out how your team regularly whines about free-speech when people criticize them.