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2008-06-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Spike Lee hits back in war of words over black soldiers

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Posted by gorb 2008-06-09 03:51|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 Original. Very original. It's all about slavery, isn't it. Seems to me that meme wore out long ago.

Yep, considering that they ignore the payment in blood for that little issue. Over 250,000 white northerns et al paid with their lives to get the 13th Amendment added to the Constitution, long with the 14th and 15th. In 1860 the census said there were about 32 million of us. Today there's over 300 million. On a very rough extrapolation that means to end slavery that war took the equivalent of over 2 million casualties in four years. Given that today far too many people can't even handle 4,000 casualties in four years to free men from tyranny, it showed a commitment of historic proportions. All of which is ignored because it undermines the sense of entitlement and POWER.

I wonder where his sensitivity to slavery was when in the last burning of LA, his community was looting and burning down Korean mom and pop stores in the hood. There are Koreans still alive today who were literally slaves under the Japanese, not something several generations ago. However, that doesn't generate POWER does it Spike.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-09 09:00|| 2008-06-09 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 ...over 2 million casualties in four years.

in todays population.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-09 09:02|| 2008-06-09 09:02|| Front Page Top

#3 "For him to insinuate that I'm rewriting history and have one of the four guys with the flag be black ...

Didn't they do just that for the two-towers memorial in NYC. Change the ethniticity of one or two of the people to raised the flag over the WTC ruins when they made a statue or plaque? To make it more 'inclusive' and PC....

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-06-09 09:18|| 2008-06-09 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Obama took Michelle to see "Do the Right Thing" on their first date? That's not a shocker.

I have it on good authority Spike took the first Mrs. Lee to see "Pink Flamingos" on their first date. Let that settle in...

One movie we'll never see Spike make is a documentary of the 1400 year old and continuing muslim slave trade of black africans.

Posted by MarkZ 2008-06-09 11:59|| 2008-06-09 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I bet he hits like a girl...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-06-09 13:37|| 2008-06-09 13:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Lee was technically correct that a black company was on Iwo Jima. That would be about 150 men among well over 100,000.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-09 14:03|| 2008-06-09 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Didn't Secretary Rumsfeld say something about making movies with the army you have, or something?

Will Morgan Freeman play him in the upcoming feature film about OIF?

Posted by Shomosh Tojo7120 2008-06-09 15:25|| 2008-06-09 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 But after the remarks were reported around the world, Lee hit back, reminding the older man that they were not "on a plantation".

Dats right Spike, us old white mens needs remindin!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-06-09 18:59|| 2008-06-09 18:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Wotta crocka shit.

Spikey has never been "on a plantation," nor has anyone he knows. Slavery ended in this country in 1865.

Then the DEMOCRATS (including the Yankee Dems) spent the next hundred years passing laws that disarmed and disenfranchised the black community, until the Civil Rights Act was passed, in spite of DEMOCRAT "nay" votes and filibusters, with the votes of the REPUBLICANS in Congress.

So who does Spikey hang out with? The DemoncRats, of course.

You want to make a significant movie about black slavery, Spike? Then make one about the black Africans who are kidnapped and sold into slavery TODAY by Arabs and other black Africans. But you won't, of course. You don't give a rat's ass in hell about them, because you can't use them to blame whitey and claim grievances for yourself that for the most part were gone before you were born.

You have never wanted to be a solution; you just keep stirring up the same old problems so you can whine and play victim and wallow in hate.

You're just like all the other Hollyweird lib/lefties - it's all about you.

As far as I know, I haven't seen anything you've made, and it will be a cold day in Hell before I bother to. I'd rather watch oil paint dry. >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-06-09 19:41|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-06-09 19:41|| Front Page Top

#10 "played a significant part in Iwo Jima"

Sorry SPike, They didnt. THey hauled a bit of ammo but miniscule contribution compared to the rest of the troops there.

And even it it was miniscule, its stil a HELL of a lot more than your lefty ass has EVER put on the line for the nation, you spoiled punk-ass bitch.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-09 19:54|| 2008-06-09 19:54|| Front Page Top

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