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afrokock 
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Posted: Jan 15 2013 at 5:41pm |
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i know theres a thread on spike and his comments, but this needs a thread on its own
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Posted: Jan 15 2013 at 5:43pm |
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we talmbout history man, huh, we talmbout history!
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Posted: Jan 15 2013 at 5:44pm |
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In an interview posted to YouTube.com, Gregory says that the movie spoke to him in ways that no film had in all his years on earth. He then calls out Lee for criticizing a film that he’s never seen, saying that if anyone has created movies that are disrespectful to our ancestors, it’s Lee himself:
I’ve seen ‘Django Unchained’ 12 times. Never in the history of Hollywood, have they ever made anything that freed the inside of me. The inside of me. I’m 80-years-old, I saw cowboy movies, wasn’t no Black folks in cowboy movies. I’m looking at a Western, plus a love story. To those of you all that see it, you’ll never see a love story about a Black man and a Black woman where it wasn’t some foul sex and foul language, huh. And Spike Lee can’t appreciate that. The little thug ain’t even seen the movie; he’s acting like he White.
So it must be something personal. And all them Black entertainers that know Spike Lee, how you gone attack this man and don’t be attacking them … and then say everyone’s a fool but me. [Talking about] ‘it offended my ancestors,’ but when you did ‘She’s Got To Have It’ and some of those other thug movies you did…you took Malcolm X and put a Zoot suit on him…did that offend your ancestors, punk?
It’s a game, man. So whatever he’s mad about is something that happened way, way long ago. Thank God it didn’t work [to stop the movie from being successful].
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Posted: Jan 15 2013 at 5:45pm |
Nah didn't even need to watch this vid.. to say I'm not riding with Dick on this one.. #Teamspikelee
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Posted: Jan 15 2013 at 5:47pm |
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you probably need to listen to what he is saying
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Posted: Jan 15 2013 at 5:48pm |
 afrokock wrote:
you probably need to listen to what he is saying
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ughhh okay since you "axed" me to. 
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Posted: Jan 15 2013 at 5:55pm |
f8dagrate wrote:
Nah didn't even need to watch this vid.. to say I'm not riding with Dick on this one.. #Teamspikelee
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you need to its long but its worth it i'm curious to hear what RT thinks
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Posted: Jan 15 2013 at 6:10pm |
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Dick Gregory is an underrated legend
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Posted: Jan 15 2013 at 6:26pm |
He speaks 'old man' so I only got half of what he was saying.He made good points, i never thought of.
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Posted: Jan 15 2013 at 6:34pm |
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I've been over Spike lee for years.. He acts as if he is the black people movie police.
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