I probably chose to go to the bathroom at the wrong time, but, whatever happened to Rick, Richard Belzer's character, the driver, that stopped him from making it back to the bus, after the stop?
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Ok, thanks. It was kinda dissapointing
shareThat wasn't it. It was more that he didn't feel morally right doing it, he was against Fara Khan's remarks against his people, and didn't like being bullied.
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Rick brought up the fact that Louis Farrakhan was/is an anti-semite who said that Jews are gutter people. Rick tried to reason with the driver, saying that asking him to drive a group of men to a rally being hosted by an anti-semite was tantamount to a black man driving a group of people to a KKK rally. It was a very ambiguously written scene, with Rick immediately being painted as a racist and a bigot; as soon as Rick voices his feelings the driver responds with, "Well go ahead, why don't you just call me [the n-word]!?" Rick responds that he's never said the word before in his life, and makes it clear that while he supports black rights, he does not believe that a racist is the person to be holding a rally to speak out against racism; nevertheless, he departs the movie essentially despised, as the driver, in spite of shaking Rick's hand before he leaves, refuses to either look Rick in the eye or even face the same direction; he turns away and then reaches his hand kind of to his side/back in order to shake Rick's hand.
As an ethnic Jew myself, I found the scene very troubling, because it seemed to be written to indicate that, because of black struggles, other races should be subjected to bigoted rhetoric from black leaders and individuals and be expected not only to take it, but to enable it. The scene doesn't really paint two sides of an argument and let the viewer decide for themselves which one is right; it paints two sides of an argument, and then tells you, "Rick is an evil and/or stupid racist."
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Now, these last two replies are what I was waiting for
shareI hated that scene. It was badly written.
It made perfect sense for Rick as a Jew to have a problem with Farrakhan. Add that to the constant harassment he was subjected to on the bus and I don't understand why George had the gall to act surprised let alone self righteous. It could have been a great way of showing how race rhetoric can complicate interpersonal relations, since George and Rick obviously had a good relationship up until then.
But Spike Lee will never be accused of erring on the side of subtlety or nuance.
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you are wrong. every race in this country feel as though they been screwed one way or the other. other than the holocost, excuse my spelling, you cant tell a black man jews has been screwed and a white american definitely can't tell a black man he's been screwed
the only pll we'll listen to is the native indians--now that's being screwed. so when black leaders tell us every day we been screwed we been screwed. so which is it, the white took this country from the indians or the white man brought us over here against our will to made us build this country free of charge?
and when Farrakahn, ect says so he's wrong!!!!!!
I didnt care for the scene b/c no matter what he said no one wanted to listen. It could have been written with a better understanding but it seemed to be more about pointing fingers at the only white man than thinking, "Yeah 6000 years of countless empires trying to rid the world of jews, no black people had it worse"
To be honest, I never really cared for Spike Lee, thou i did enjoy this movie. But as a Latino, i haven't seen him really ever say anything about us. We have footnotes in his films about race, Rick did bring up a great point before it happened. "What about a million man march for Latinos, Chinese, Jews?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xETgGym8cnE
If the Latinos, Jews, Chinese, etc would like to have a Million Man March - they should organize one....no one is stopping them....Just like when Shelly was bitching to Gary at the beginning of the movie about women not being able to go....she should have organized a million woman march...one was organized, but hardly anyone participated.
shareWhich is the problem with Spike Lee's films. It's his ethnocentrism that makes him a one-trick pony.He's only interested in the the black community and how it interrelates. The characters in his films never have to look outseide their communities and learn lessons, or accept others.
I'm not that proud of everything I've done, but I'm not that ashamed, either.
Why the frack would you want anything like a Million Man March for Latinos or Asians? The march celebrates a racist anti-Semite using the religious custom of Jews to get Black men to atone for sins-what sins? The sins of being a flawed human being? That's a part of us no matter what we are or what we accomplish in life. If anybody should be atoning, it's Farakhan, not any of us.
shareThey kicked his jewish A off tha bus. Colods only, ya'na'mean?
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Well other people have had marches and sometimes it gets them killed. Joseph Columbo, a member of the Mafia, organized the Italian-American Civil Rights League in 1970 in New York. He said all Italians were tagged with the Mafaia label. That it was asked of any Italian American running for office, applying for a job, etc.
150,000 people turned out for an Italian Unity Day on Columbus Circle in June 1970 in response. He also picketed the FBI offices for harrassment,
In 1971 he joined forces with the Jewish Defense League saying both groups were harrassed. He posted bail for 11 JDL members. In June at the second Unity Day event he approached the podium to speak. An African-American named Jerome Johnson stepped forward and fired three times hitting Colombo in the head and back. Johnson had been provided with press credentials and was immediately shot to death by an unidentified man who stepped out of the crowd and disappeared.
Colombo lingered for many years paralized before finally dying. Law enforcement went through th motions of an investigation and labelled Johnson as a lone gunman who must have been insane. It was obvious he had been recruited and murdered to prevent him from talking.
Meanwhile Meir Kahane, head of JDL, who worked with Colombo left in 1971 for Israel and ran for office and was elected. in 2007 the FBI released over 1,000 documents that showed they had him under daily surveillance.
In 1990 he was murdered by an arab gunman while speaking at a Manhattan Hotel. The killer was a member of the Al Queda cell connected to Osama Ben Ladin. Kahane is considered their first victim. The killer was dressed as an orthodox Jew and was with two other cell members who later exploded a truck bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center in 1993.
The killer was shot in a shootout outside by a policeman he wounded. Despite eye witness testimony a jury actually let him slide on the murder. He was convicted of other charges though. The cell under Abdul-Rahman had planned to use s truck bomb on the gates of Attica State Prison and shoot their way in to free him. He was later moved to a super max prison at Marion, Illinois.
The famous statute of Justice shows her wearing a blindfold. Maybe so she won't see the crud done in her name.
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THEY PUT HIS ASS IN A POT AND COOKED HIMB! STIRRED HIM WIF A BIG DINOSAUR BONE!
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