Oak
Bluffs Stirring the Race Pot Again
Spike Lee Slams Gentrification in Profanity-Laced Rant
by Breitbart News 26 Feb 2014
Spike Lee isn't happy
with the current wave of gentrification in his beloved Big Apple and
neighboring communities.
The vocal director implied that
racism is behind some of the perks from gentrification, from better police protection in neighborhoods with
an influx of white citizens to improved amenities for newer city dwellers.
So, why did it take this great
influx of white people to get the schools better? Why’s there more police
protection in Bed Stuy and Harlem now? Why’s
the garbage getting picked up more regularly? We been here!
Lee made the comments during a
Black History Month event at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
The director's outrage wasn't limited to the contrast in attitudes by local
officials. He also said new residents should pay their proper respects to the
existing populace and not expect the local culture to do their bidding.
Then comes the motherfuckin’
Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here. You just
can’t come and bogart. There were brothers playing motherfuckin’ African drums
in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can’t do it anymore because the
new inhabitants said the drums are loud. My father’s a great jazz musician. He
bought a house in nineteen-motherfuckin’-sixty-eight, and the motherfuckin’ people
moved in last year and called the cops on my father. He’s not — he doesn’t even
play electric bass! It’s acoustic! We bought the motherfuckin’ house in
nineteen-sixty-motherfuckin’-eight and now you call the cops? In 2013? Get the
fuck outta here!
Lee then compared the wave of
gentrification to efforts, in his view, to wipe out the Native Americans
already living in the U.S.
during America's
formative years.
Nah. You can’t do that. You can’t
just come in the neighborhood and start bogarting and say, like you’re
motherfuckin’ Columbus
and kill off the Native Americans. Or what they do in Brazil, what
they did to the indigenous people. You have to come with respect. There’s a
code. There’s people.
Spike Lee
Spike
Lee is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, and married to Tonya Lewis Lee.
Note: Town of Oak
Bluffs Massachusetts (Spike Lee’s neighborhood)
Welcome
The Town of Oak
Bluffs is a resort town on the northeast shore of the island of Martha's Vineyard,
Massachusetts.
Originally incorporated in 1880 as Cottage
City, in 1907 the town's name was
changed because of the growth in the year round population and the changing
face of the resort required an acknowledgement the town was not just "Cottage City" any more.
Oak Bluffs operates the largest
marina on Martha's Vineyard, which not only has the most slips, but is situated
in the midst of the historic gingerbread campgrounds, and offers easy access to
the rest of the Island. "OB", as it is sometimes referred to, also is home to
several beautiful public beaches, a teaming shore of wildlife, fish and
shellfish, fabulous public parks, a golf course and even a microbrewery.
Tonya Lewis Lee
is married to Spike Lee, and a
director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Charles J.
Ogletree Jr. is a director at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a Harvard
Law School professor, and was Barack
Obama’s college mentor.
Harvard Professor Jailed; Officer Is Accused of Bias
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: July 20, 2009
Professor Gates, who has taught at Harvard for nearly two decades, arrived
home on Thursday from a trip to China to find his front door jammed, said Charles J. Ogletree, a law professor at Harvard who is representing him.
Henry Louis Gates
Jr. is a director at the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund, an Oak
Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a Harvard University
professor, and was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Jon M. Huntsman
Jr. is a fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and was the U.S.
ambassador for China.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Spike
Lee is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, and married to Tonya Lewis Lee.
Tonya Lewis Lee
is married to Spike Lee, and a
director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration, and a trustee at Morehouse School of Medicine.
Louis W. Sullivan
was the president of Morehouse School of
Medicine, and is Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner.
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