Spike Lee Slams Gentrification in Profanity-Laced Rant

Oak Bluffs Stirring the Race Pot Again

Spike Lee Slams Gentrification in Profanity-Laced Rant

by Breitbart News 26 Feb 2014

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/02/26/lee-blasts-gentrification

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)

http://www.oakbluffsma.gov

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/us/21gates.html?_r=0

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.