Spike Lee Sued
Posted: June 27, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Entertainment, Law & Justice | Tags: David McClain, Do the Right Thing, Florida, George Zimmerman, Shooting of Trayvon Martin, Smoking Gun, Spike Lee, Twitter 2 Comments
Finally: Justice in the Zimmerman Case
The suit claims the “Do the Right Thing” director tweeted out the Florida address along with George Zimmerman’s name in March 2012 to his 
240,000-plus Twitter followers.
[court documents obtained by the Smoking Gun]
“While defendant intended to post the home address of George Zimmerman, he actually posted the address of plaintiffs Elaine McClain and David McClain,” the complaint reads.
“I don’t give a f— what you think kill that Bitch,” Lee wrote. “HERE GO HIS ADDRESS, LET THE HUNGER GAMES BEGIN.”. . .(read more)
Spike Lee Gentrification Controversy: Hipster Is the New Honkey
Posted: February 28, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Health and Social Issues, U.S. News | Tags: Anderson Cooper, Fort Greene Brooklyn, Harlem, John McWhorter, Pratt Institute, Spike Lee, W. E. B. Du Bois, White people 1 Comment
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What’s really bothering Lee is that he doesn’t like seeing his old neighborhood full of white people, which makes him historical detritus.
John McWhorter writes: It’s interesting that the director of the richest oeuvre of black films in the history of the medium doesn’t understand what the Civil Rights revolution was for. In his expletive-laced comments about the gentrification of Fort Greene during an interview at the Pratt Institute, Spike Lee seemed to think that what we Overcame for was to be grouchy bigots.
Basically, black people are getting paid more money than they’ve ever seen in their lives for their houses, and a once sketchy neighborhood is now quiet and pleasant. And this is a bad thing… why?
Lee seems to think it’s somehow an injustice whenever black people pick up stakes. But I doubt many of the blacks now set to pass fat inheritances on to their kids feel that way. This is not the old story of poor blacks being pushed out of neighborhoods razed down for highway construction. Lee isn’t making sense.
pundit from another planet 