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- From: grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea)
- Subject: Re: Malcom the Tenth
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 01:06:28 GMT
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- In <1992Nov21.230642.13941@seq.uncwil.edu> session@seq.uncwil.edu (Zack C. Sessions) writes:
-
- >grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea) writes:
-
- >>Actually, my opinion of Lee is drawn entirely from his movies and from the
- >>comments he has made in the press. I'll agree that Helms has him beat in
- >>terms of actual racist action taken, but not in terms of racist opinion
- >>espoused.
-
- >Then that's your problem. You need to listen to a real live interview
- >with HIM and not reports of whayt he has said which you heard from
- >the media. Remember when the press said that he thought students
- >should cut class and go see his movie Malcomn X? Well, turns out he
- >never said that. He was referring to a scenario where students go
- >to see the movie as part of a school function. He himself as a high
- >school student was taken to see movies in that manner.
-
- First of all, as I said before, I base my opinion of Lee on comments that
- *he* has made in the media, not that the media has made about him. I have
- seen interviews with him; I have seen him speak on television; I have read
- columns that he has written; and I have seen some of his movies.
-
- Second of all, I read a quote in Newsweek by the wife of the late Malcolm
- X, in which she chided Spike Lee for suggesting that black children skip
- school to see his movie. If, as you claim, he never suggested that, I'm
- not the only one who was misinformed. What's your source?
-
- >>Lee is, by his own admission, a racial separatist. He thinks that inter-
- >>racial marriages are a mistake for several reasons, one of which is that
- >>it would weaken black strength. He believes that AIDS is a government
- >>engineered disease designed to destroy undesirables (implicity, blacks).
- >>Lee made racist caricatures of Jews in his film "Mo' Better Blues".
- >>Those are only a few examples.
-
- >I just saw an interview with Spike Lee on Larry King Live. He didn't
- >mention any of those things. I have heard other so-called black leaders
- >make such claims, but never Spike. I didn't see Mo' Better Blues
- >so I don't know if it contained racists views of Jews, but I never heard
- >it mentioned in the press anywhere and I read and watch a lot of news.
-
- Well, if you'd like, I can give you some direct excerpts.
-
-