Spike Lee taking his crazy pills again
If anyone saw Spike Lee on Real Time with Bill Maher a couple weeks ago, you already know and agree that perhaps he should go shopping for one of those white jackets with the extra long sleeves. He is convinced that the government blew up the levees in New Orleans to get all the black people out of town. This makes sense, of course, because New Orleans had about a 67% black population, so that would really make a town which previously sported a population of about 400,000 to 500,000 quite roomy for all the whites left behind (after making deodorant mandatory as a way to get rid of all the Frenchman too, of course). That and we all know black people can’t swim, so they probably would have just gotten killed straight away and not bothered any other towns with their blackness (note the sarcasm). When Tucker Carlson challenged him on spreading what could not be true, Spike responded by challenging Tucker back on whether or not he knew of the Tuskegee experiment, taking a tangent to put him on the spot to discredit him (and the audience, although I know damn well very few if any knew of the Tuskegee Experiment, groaned in unison because apparently Spike had beat that ignorant white boy).
The problem here is not that one man had a “dismissed from reality” opinion on what happened during the time of the hurricane; I am certain others share his view. The problem is that some people are actually going to believe him. Why? The black population of America is starving for leaders and role models. That is why you keep seeing Jesse Jackson’s face on TV. Any real man (especially a Reverend) would have apologized, hung his head in shame, and crawled under a rock after being caught stealing tens (possibly hundreds) of thousands of dollars from the very people he proclaims to care about to give hush money to a woman he had an illegitimate child with. Not Jesse! He did none of this and in fact is still in charge of the very company he used to steal from other black people. Al Sharpton, another black leader, has had his share of problems as well, but is still getting listened to. Upstanding members of the black community, however, such as Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, and Clarence Thomas are disowned by blacks because they have the audacity to be conservative. Tiger Woods is not a role model because he has no “Street Cred”. It’s a freaking joke. Spike Lee seems to be acting in the black people’s best interest because he made some movies about black people, Malcolm X being extremely well done. Because his quality of work is very high, it should not matter that he borrowed his definition of “documentary” from Michael Moore.
The point of all this to remind all people to just think for themselves and not buy in to what someone is selling just because they are famous or they appear to be intelligent. Our celebrities are as a whole a low educated demographic. When someone does challenges an idea, don’t get fooled by ancient tricks of debate like Spike used on Tucker Carlson, read between the lines and see what the real information is. Most of all be very cautious when a man that falls in the upper 1% of income in the United States pretends as if he has the pulse of the minority he once was a part of.
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just a thought, and i did not see the interview, so don’t take too seriously.
bringing up the Tuskegee experiment in retort to Carlson challenging him on spreading “what could not be true” seems logical to me. He’s giving an example of something similar to what he believes happened. While i would guess the government did not bust the damns, I wouldn’t say it could not have happened.
Also, I agree that we need more black leaders, however your list of a few “upstanding members of the black community” I would consider to just be leaders who happen to be black. Its semantics I know, but I think there are plenty of leaders who happen to be black, but there aren’t enough black leaders, who are leading the black community.