Funny how Spike Lee criticizes everyone for being racist...
... and then he whitewashes the entire cast of his remake of Oldboy.
shareSpike Lee isn't just racist...he's very racist.
It must suck to wake up every day and blame white people because you ran out of orange juice for breakfast or because it's raining outside.
I do love "Do The Right Thing" and "25th Hour" though. Great movies from the racist.
How is he racist?
Not being a trouble maker here but I honestly have no idea how he comes off as racist to you
The guy is a good director and story-teller...I enjoy his work and I don't think Spike is a racist
Look up all of the times he's had complaints on the basis of race. Constant.
There are hundreds of times he's complained about race. He does it more than anyone.
Just because you're an African American, when everything that comes out of your mouth has to do with some complaint about race you're a racist in my eyes. Anyone is free to feel differently.
I'm sick of every topic in the world today being about race. There are issues with racism from all races, but not every damn thing that goes on is because of the color of someone's skin, or their genitalia for that matter.
That's just how some people choose to deflect issues about themselves, or not being able to handle any criticism, or being able to handle anything that doesn't go the way they want it to.
So yeah, in my book, Spike is a racist.
I never really saw him in this light
He's made some fine movies that I really enjoyed
I guess we see it differently
Fair enough sut👍
Complaining about racism isn't racist. People need to speak out against injustices or it continues and becomes worst. If people had your attitude, the U.S. would still be a British colony paying taxes without representation.
shareNot everything is racist, and not everything is an injustice.
shareThat's not what I wrote. Fight or prepare to lie down and have people walk all over you. Why would anyone complain about a fighter unless you're what he's fighting against or support being a wimp?
shareI support honesty and personal responsibility.
Racism exists, but not in every single facet of life. Someone needs to let Spike know this. 90% of the time he is "fighting" racism where there is none.
It's also really funny that he spends so much time calling the Oscars racist, but when he is nominated, why is he sitting right there in the audience begging for their approval?
The answer is, The Oscars are not racist, he was mad he didn't get nominated, he doesn't accept that someone was better than him that year, so he resorts to calling people racist, and when he is finally nominated for his film (about, you guessed it, racism), he is right there with everyone else wanting the acceptance of the people he was calling racist. So what is it? He's a hypocrite, and tosses the old race card on the table whenever he feels like it will help him. So now he has an Oscar for best screenplay...are the Oscars still racist?
I'm not saying racism doesn't exist...it most certainly does, but that doesn't make it right to exploit it, like Spike Lee and so many people in his position do.
A supporter of "being a wimp"? What does that even mean? Jesus Christ.
The Oscars have always been biased, political, sexist, ageist and racist. Where have you been? I knew that since I was 7.
Bias is repeatedly rewarding a movie in which blacks play a subservient character (aka: stereotype) instead of an empowered character which was a major complaint.
Traditionally, the Academy was represented by middle-aged and elderly white men while the movie audience is much younger and now more diversified. Their movie tastes don't reflect the audience. They have been out of touch which is part of the reason why the ratings continue to drop each year.
It's not the place of a white person (if that's what you are) to decide if a black person was discriminated against or determine when a black person should fight against racism. That type of arrogance is racist, too.
"It's not the place of a white person (if that's what you are) to decide if a black person was discriminated against or determine when a black person should fight against racism."
lol, just no.
Even thinking that is actually racist. A person of any race can make a judgment about the actions of a person of another race. If you believe the reverse scenario is okay, you are actually racist.
Are you saying that a black person (or any discriminated person) needs to ask permission from a white person before fighting against racism?
Are you saying that only a white person can determine if a black person was legitimately discriminated against by another white person?
I'm asking these questions because the previous poster who is likely white has decided his/her opinion and judgement about racial discrimination outweighs Spike Lee's.
"A person of any race can make a judgment about the actions of a person of another race."
Do you believe it's appropriate for a white person to tell a black person that racism doesn't exists?
I believe any person can make any judgment in their opinion as to whether something is racist. The problem is that its so overused and people like Spike Lee use it inappropriately. For example, my movie didnt get nominated so RACISM. I didn´t get the job so RACISM. Are there instances where this happens? Sure, but too many minorities use it as an excuse for their own failures where it doesn´t exist. This happens in all facets of life and racism is just one of the many common excuses. I believe anybody of any colour has a right to make that observation.
shareYou're saying that a white person knows more about what it's like being black than a black person does.
An observation and an experience are two different things.
How do you know it doesn't exist or that it's overused? The only people who say racism is overused are white people who aren't victimized by it.
Most ignorant whites are in denial about how much 400 years of white supremacy and racism is responsible for "failures".
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really
No, I´m not saying that. I agree about experiences being different to observation but the observation here is that Spike Lee is making an allegation about the Oscars because things didn´t go his way. This is what I mean by "overused". He is jumping to a conclusion based on his own movie failures. Not everything is racism. Should we automatically assume it must be racism because a black guy said so? That is ridiculous. How long can you blame historical racism for not being able to succeed? 50 years, 100 years, 500 years? When does it end? If racism is truly affecting peoples´ ability to succeed, why are Chinese Americans thriving more than Whites?
shareIf racism is truly affecting peoples' ability to succeed, why are Chinese Americans thriving more than Whites?
Great factual argument-stopper. SJWs hate simple (obvious) facts. share
spike lee is a huge piece of shit racist.
and when he doesn't get what he wants he cries racism.... a low IQ moron, which happens to get a lucky break in the 90's on the hip hop movie wave
complaining about racism that isn't actually racism is racist
Who decides if it's actually racism?
sharerational, unemotional common sense
shareWho?
shareAdam Corrola
Who still?
sharehim, & a few select others that i will nominate to an oversight committee
Seriously, who? I never heard of him. I had to google. He's been accused of sexism and homophobia which makes him an unlikely authority to define racism.
Nominate another.
He´s definitely a racist. He´s one of those people that likely doesn´t believe he is being racist because he is a black person that isn´t backed by institutional racism. I remember seeing Hoop Dreams, and Spike Lee was ranting to black kids about them being used for their athleticism by universities. Like heaven forbid, a black kid uses his athletic ability to better his life. People like him will never be satisfied with society. There was a time when blacks weren´t even allowed at universities and he still finds a way to complain about something positive.
shareI don't know what he believes but I've never witnessed him making racist statements and so forth
He does seem like the angry contrarian type and not very friendly but that's a different matter and his right
Not saying I'd have a beer with the guy but racist..?
I'm not going with that
The real racists are those who talk constantly about race.
shareI wasn't bothered by it until he called the Academy "racist" because Chi-Raq and Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus didn't get Oscar noms. Nevermind the fact that those movies just simply may not be very good, it MUST be because the Academy is racist...
shareYet since complaints by many, the Academy has brought in more people of color, women and younger people to better represent the audience. There was a reason why nominations and winners never reflected the taste of most people and now the changes can help.
shareyes, just adding blacks will always improve everything, from movies to neighborhoods..... we all clearly see it everyday.
does not matter if you have great skill, as long as you aren't white, but "diverse" , then you will make a positive impact.
According to you, only whites can have great skills. Based on your comment, would you consider yourself to be prejudiced, bigoted or racist?
shareHe seems like the type that would say "I'm not racist, I love Sam Jackson and Ice Cube! I would totally butt bang Jennifer Lopez! See, I'm not racist! YOU'RE the racist!"
share"He seems like the type that would say "
you seem to be the type that spew a lot of bullshit.... and seems to pretend you know other people.
replace seem with are!