Showing posts with label Spike Lee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spike Lee. Show all posts

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Spike Lee, the whiny bigoted victicrat who thought W. blew up levees?

November 01, 2014 America with George Ramos , Fusion.net 0 Comments
Spike Lee: Post-Racial USA Is ‘Bullshit’

By America with George Ramos, Oct. 31, 2014, Fusion.net

Spike Lee calls it like he sees it. And he told Fusion’s Jorge Ramos that a post-racial America is “bullshit” and police departments don’t treat all Americans equally. He also took a swipe at the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” TV show, saying it highlights the “destruction of the modern world.”

“There’s a big division for the police departments, I think, in this country, versus people of color,” Lee said.

Lee has been a filmmaking force for over thirty years, and his raw portrayals of urban life and racial issues drove his early success. His 1989 masterpiece “Do the Right Thing’ climaxes with a scene of police brutality, and life imitated art in July when Eric Garner died during a routine arrest in Staten Island after being put in a chokehold by a NYPD officer. It was all captured in a cell phone video by bystander Ramsey Orta.

“When I saw Ramsey’s footage… it was very eerie… I said, ‘This is just like Radio Raheem!’” Lee told Ramos. “I said we’ve got to cut this stuff.” The resultingmashup grew into a documentary about Garner called “I Can’t Breathe.”

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Race Card Sighting!!!

August 21, 2014 Anderson Cooper , Darren Wilson 1 Comments
Spike Lee On Ferguson: "I Just Hope That Things Will Really Blow Up"

 By Jim Treacher, Aug. 20, 2014, Dailycaller.com

 The last time America’s race-baiters and their helpful idiots worked themselves into a frenzy over someone shooting a violent criminal in self-defense, Spike Lee gave out the home address of an elderly couple who had nothing to do with it. If you think he’s learned anything from that experience, you don’t know much about Spike Lee.

 I’m not sure if Cooper thought bringing the diminutive racist and former filmmaker on the air would help him in his nightly battle with MSNBC for second place in the ratings, but at least Spike said some really stupid crap.

 Here’s Lee’s disjointed, seemingly disoriented rant. He doesn’t start contradicting his own appeal for peace and calm until toward the end:



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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Why The NBA Is Taking So Long To Oust Donald Sterling

May 15, 2014 Adam Silver , Donald Sterling 0 Comments
By Roger Groves, May 15, 2014, Forbes.com

The question raised by NBA’s Stephen A. Smith, Spike Lee, and several NBA players, current and past, is “Why is it taking so long to fire Donald Sterling?” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was so strong and strident in his announcement that steps would be taken “immediately” to do just that. There was no ambiguity about whether they were going to fire Sterling for his racist comments against African Americans. It is a done deal. Commissioner Silver surely would not have made such a profound announcement without having consulted the other NBA owners. So why hasn’t the first shoe dropped?

Like an onion, the answer has several smelly layers, and several lawyers. The first shoe is Donald. The second shoe is Shelly, his estranged wife and 50% owner of the family trust that owns the LA Clippers. The NBA is more concerned about the second.

The most important deliberative point I suspect is this: One or both of those shoes may sue the NBA and its owners. I have several legal reasons for why they suit would ultimately fail, not the least of which is that the controlling owner from the trust was Donald. He is the only one on the governing board, and the removal of him effectively removes the trust. But that does not stop either Sterling from commencing the action, and getting to a stage we call discovery. During discovery, a lot of dirt can be discovered about the other owners.

Donald, himself a lawyer has been litigious in the past. Shelly is lawyered up with tall cotton firms. While their lawyers oppose each other for divorce purposes, I bet their lawyers will agree on exposing any evidence they can find that current owners have been complicit, accepting, acquiescing, or joking along with Donald in ways that are considered racist. The claim would be, “See these guys are just as bad, so ousting Donald is arbitrary or an antitrust-level conspiracy, and an abuse of discretion of its own rules.”

So even if there is enough legal support for ultimately winning at trial, the possibility of negative exposure in the media during months, if not years of discovery and motion hearings is probably causing the NBA to consider a form of pretrial settlement to avoid litigation. And I would bet your season tickets that a primary strategy being considered is the creation of a new diverse ownership group and then carving a non-operating passive piece of it for Shelly.

As for Donald, someone is likely looking at ways to structure a deal where he minimizes his multi-million dollar capital gains taxes he would pay on his forced sale. The taxation of capital gains is one of the most complicated least-understood areas of the law. To find loopholes is not a new quest among lawyers so the IRS has a myriad of regulations to avoid them.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

FLASHBACK: Spike Lee Calls Clint Eastwood A Racist And Angry Old Man --Oh yeah, that...

May 14, 2014 Clint Eastwood , Racist Comments 0 Comments
Spike Lee
June 9, 2008, Popcritics.com

The war of words between Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood has reached a fevered pitch as Spike Lee obviously doesn’t know when to “shut his face” as Eastwood so eloquently put it.

As we told you the other day, Spike Lee is upset with Eastwood for not putting black actors in his WWII movies, Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. In response to Lee’s racist-tinted accusations against him, Eastwood said that.  A guy like him should shut his face.

Well, Spike Lee started talking some more. ABCNews.com was able to get this response from Lee:

“First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either,” he told ABCNEWS.com. “He’s a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ — come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.”

Lee has a proposal for Eastwood:

“If he wishes, I could assemble African-American men who fought at Iwo Jima and I’d like him to tell these guys that what they did was insignificant and they did not exist,” he said. “I’m not making this up. I know history. I’m a student of history. And I know the history of Hollywood and its omission of the one million African-American men and women who contributed to World War II.”

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Inquisitr: Not Everyone On Board Donald Sterling ‘Ban’ Wagon – Larry Elder Cites Bill Maher Hypocrisy

April 30, 2014 Al Sharpton , Bill Maher 0 Comments
"The Blind Leading the Blind" by Pieter Bruegel's 1568 
By Sean Mahoney, May 1, 2014, The Inquisitr

Donald Sterling has spent the week being figuratively pummeled, disgraced, humiliated, scoffed, derided, shamed, dishonored, tarred, feathered, and run out of town. Or at least out of the NBA.

Said NBA has also put forth a not so polite request for the Los Angeles Clippers owner to pony up $2.5 million dollars for what he was clandestinely recorded saying by his supposed “mistress”.

But not everyone in the media has jumped aboard the Donald Sterling is the worst human being to ever walk the earth “ban” wagon.

In fact, Larry Elder, who hosts an afternoon drive show on KABC 790 in Los Angeles, told TMZ, Donald Sterling is getting “SCREWED” by the NBA, and that it’s actually Magic Johnson who blew the whole Sterling-is-a-racist thing out of proportion.

The African American libertarian, author, and radio personality, Elder, acknowledges Donald Sterling is a “dolt” and that Sterling has long said stupid and racist things, but that the current outcry against Sterling is that of “black and white victicrats” and those in the “racism industry” are making the most of Donald Sterling’s idiocy.

Elder has long railed against the likes of Bill Maher, Michael Moore, Al Sharpton, Spike Lee and many other outspoken liberal personalities, generally winning any debate against anyone willing to take him on. Both Bill Maher and Michael Moore choose not to.

Appearing on Fox 11 in L.A. on Tuesday, TMZ says Elder defended Donald Sterling, arguing that the only reason Sterling was taking so much heat is because Magic didn’t keep his cool after the audio was released:

“Magic Johnson could have taken this thing to a nice high level… and he could’ve said, ‘I don’t care what Donald Sterling says,’” Elder said.

What TMZ leaves out, however, in a very Michael Moore-ish fashion, is that Elder started his comments by saying Magic should have acted more like Larry Bird when Isaiah Thomas said that if Bird was black, he’d just be regarded as just another player. Bird’s response when asked what he thought? “I don’t care what he said.” Which is what Elder thinks Magic should’ve said with regard to Sterling’s comments.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Spike Lee Unloads On Sterling: Has ‘Mentality of a Slave Master' --Sermon from bigot who hates interracial couples?!

Spike Lee Unloads On Sterling: Has ‘Mentality of a Slave Master' --Sermon from bigot who hates interracial couples?!

April 29, 2014 Donald Sterling , Los Angeles Clippers 0 Comments


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Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Elder Statement: Maxine Waters / Fatherless Communities

March 22, 2014 Crime , Fatherless Communities 1 Comments



The Left's War on Father's Day

By Larry Elder, Jun. 06, 2013

"We know the statistics," said President Barack Obama, "that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or become teenage parents themselves."
The Journal of Research on Adolescence found that even after controlling for varying levels of household income, kids in father-absent homes are more likely to end up in jail. And kids that never had a father in the house are the most likely to wind up behind bars.
Tupac Shakur, the rapper killed in an unsolved and possibly gang-related murder, once said: "I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence." Tupac admitted he began running with gangs because he wanted structure and protection: "Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man."
Where have all the fathers gone?
When I was a child, my father and mother often complained about "people going on the county," a term they used for the rare young mother in our neighborhood who relied on government welfare. My parents, who often disagreed politically, saw eye-to-eye in their opposition to what they called wrongheaded incentives that encourage people to have children without marriage. "The worst thing that ever came down the pike," Dad would often call "county money."
In "Dear Father, Dear Son," my latest book, I write about my rough, tough World War II Marine staff sergeant father, whose gruff exterior I mistook for lack of love. Born in the Jim Crow South of Athens, Ga., he was 14 at the start of the Great Depression.
He never knew his biological father. The man with the last name of "Elder" was one of his mother's many boyfriends, only this one stayed in my dad's life a little longer than the others. A physically abusive alcoholic, Elder would give my father's mom money from his paycheck to ensure he would not blow it on booze and gambling. After a couple of days, Elder would get drunk and demand his money back. She would refuse. He would beat her and take the money back. My father witnessed this ugly scenario over and over. "Why she just didn't give him the damn money," Dad told me, "I'll never understand."
One day, my father, then 13, came home from school, and his mom's then-boyfriend accused him of making too much noise. They quarreled. His mother, siding with the boyfriend, threw my father out of the house. He never returned.
Growing up, I watched my father work two full-time jobs as a janitor. He also cooked for a rich family on the weekends and somehow managed to go to night school to get his GED. When I was 10, my father opened a small restaurant that he ran until he retired in his mid-80s. "Hard work wins," Dad would tell my brothers and me. "The world doesn't owe you a living." My parents drilled into us the importance of education and self-reliance. "Go out into the world unprepared," Dad would say, "and you're going to get your behind kicked and your feelings hurt."
Studies back up the link between the explosive growth in government welfare -- begun in the '60s -- and the increase of out-of-wedlock births.
In 1960, 5 percent of America's children entered the world without a mother and father married to each other. By 1980 it was 18 percent, and by 2000 it had risen to 33 percent. Today, the number is 41 percent. For blacks, out-of-wedlock births have gone from 25 percent in 1965 to 73 percent today. The ethnic group with the next-highest percent of births to unmarried mothers is that of Native Americans, at 66 percent. For whites, out-of-wedlock births stand at 29 percent. For Hispanics, out-of-wedlock births are at 53 percent.
In every state, a woman with two children "makes" more money on welfare than were she to take a minimum wage job. The array of federal and state programs amounts to over $60K spent for every poor household. But because of costs, the recipient household ends up getting far less.
How do we know that the welfare state creates disincentives that hurt the people we are trying to help? They tell us. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times asked whether poor women "often" have children to get additional benefits. Most of the non-poor respondents said no. When the same question was asked of the poor, however, 64 percent said yes.

People, of course, need help. A humane society does not ignore those who cannot or even will not fend for themselves. But good faith does not substitute for sound policy. The welfare state is an assault on families.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Ted Nugent Apologized --- When Will Spike Lee?

March 11, 2014 Benghazi , Democrat 0 Comments

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By Larry Elder

Ted Nugent apologized. Now it's Spike Lee's turn.

Rocker Ted Nugent, a Republican and a fierce defender of the Second Amendment, said this about President Obama: "I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame, enough Americans to be ever-vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America."

The reaction, not surprisingly, was strong.

Nugent apologized, sort of: "Instead of using terms like 'subhuman mongrel,' I'm going to get right to the meat of the matter where our president is a liar. He lies about you can keep your doctor, period. Over and over again he lies about Benghazi. He's lying about the IRS. So I won't call him names anymore. I'm going to get right down to the nitty-gritty and identify the criminal behavior by the people abusing power in the United States government."

Now another apology is in order.

Director Spike Lee is an Obama supporter. For a fundraiser, Lee had a $38,500-per-plate dinner for Obama and about 60 people. Curious, did Lee's and Obama's guests commiserate on "racial oppression" and "income inequality" while dining in Lee's home, currently on the market for $32 million? But we digress.

Lee sided with Minister Louis Farrakhan when the leader of the Nation of Islam accused President George W. Bush's administration of intentionally blowing up levees during Hurricane Katrina. "It's not far-fetched," Lee said, "And also I would like to say it's not necessarily blow it up. But, the residents of that ward, they believe it, there was a Hurricane Betsy in '65, the same that happened where a choice had to be made, one neighborhood got to save another neighborhood and flood another 'hood, flood another neighborhood ... " Far-fetched? "Presidents have been assassinated," Lee said, "So why is that so far-fetched? ... Do you think that election in 2000 was fair? You don't think that was rigged? If they can rig an election, they can do anything!"

No apology from Lee for accusing Bush of mass murder?

Lee also called a sitting U.S. Senator a "card-carrying member of the Klan" Former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., celebrated the 100th birthday of Sen. Strom Thurman, R-S.C. In 1948 Thurman, then a Democrat, ran as an independent candidate for president as a segregationist. Fast forward to Thurman's birthday celebration in 2002, where Lott said, "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, (Mississippi) voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."

Lott apologized, insisting he did not mean he wants America segregated. But the damage was done. Lott's a "racist"! On ABC's "Good Morning America," Lee said, "(Trent Lott) is a card-carrying member of the Klan. I know he has that hood in the closet."
This brings us to Lee and the Trayvon Martin case.

In Chicago, Obama's hometown, murders in 2012 topped 500. 2013 saw a "low" murder total of 421 — the equivalent of a Sandy Hook every three weeks. Most of the killers and the killed are black. Worse, only about one-fourth of these cases are "cleared," where a suspect has been identified and arrested. Nationwide, the No. 1 preventable cause of death among young black males is not accidents — as it is with whites — it is homicide, almost always committed by another black person
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But when a black is killed by a non-black, even where the shooter could reasonably claim self-defense, out comes Lee's agenda. To Lee, the killing of Martin, a 17-year-old black teen, by non-black George Zimmerman was a referendum on how America's criminal justice treats black victims. Incensed that authorities had not yet arrested and charged Zimmerman, Lee tweeted what he thought was the home address of Zimmerman's parents. Wrong address. Lee did apologize for this one, later paying a financial settlement to the owners of the "wrong" home.

Lee also once publicly stated his opposition to "interracial couples." About a year after he released "Jungle Fever," a film about a black-white couple, Lee said: "I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street." This might have been news to Obama's parents.

Lee, a gun control proponent, seems okay with the use of a firearm — depending upon the target. He once verbally threatened NRA head Charlton Heston. Lee said somebody should "shoot him with a .44-caliber Bulldog."

No president ever held a fundraiser in Ted Nugent's mansion. Lee, on the other hand, has a close relationship with Obama. Will Lee apologize for calling Lott a "card-carrying member of the Klan," for urging the assassination of the president of the NRA or for affirming accusations against George W. Bush of mass murder?
Nugent apologized. 

Now it's Spike's turn.

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