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20 February 2006 03:21

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Spike Lee Attacks All-White Hollywood

Outspoken movie-maker SPIKE LEE has attacked the Hollywood studios for not including African-Americans as executives.

The MALCOLM X director is appalled the major studios only recruit white men and women for executive positions.

He tells US style magazine Complex, "You go to any studio, the (only) black guy you are going to see is the guy at the gate. In Hollywood, there is not one African-American who is an executive that has gatekeeper position that could greenlight a picture.

"They'll make a movie with DENZEL (WASHINGTON) and JAMIE (FOXX)and EDDIE (MURPHY), but only because they can make money off them.

"They (studios) might think there's diversity because four white women run studios."

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29th April 2006 06:07 mushmush (1)

	spike lees recent movie, inside man was great. so great that i have seen it in the movie theatre four times. it is prob doing so well cause it is more mainstream than his other films. however, he gets his digs in. jodie foster plays a character whose surname is white. and she is called a very derogatory curse word.

25th February 2006 00:12 scarlettroyal (74)

	Thank you. I appreciate whatever compliments I can garner. If by bigot, you mean zealot, yes, I would agree. There is no problem being passionate about a belief IF the belief is a good one. I believe that people can move mountains . . . PROVIDED . . . they are free of the shackles of "victimhood" . . . Leftism . . . feel-goodism . . . and excuse-making. I have a profound belief in the innate ability of human beings. And I see ALL humans as able. ONLY the aged, the infirm, and children need special attention. I do not believe that ANY adults need consistent extra help (or extra excuses) based on something as meaningless as the color of their skin. Some people are the willing victims of their own paranoia. It is MUCH EASIER to blame the lack of a raise on one's skin color rather than entertain the possibility that one does not do the best job possible. It is MUCH EASIER to blame the lack of an invitation on one's skin color rather than entertain the possibility that one's personality is not the nicest possible. I once had a black man tell me that "I don't get paid for anything after 5:00" and he was always the first one out the door every day. Then, after a period of time, he had the nerve to ask why he was never considered for a possible promotion up to supervisor. This same "genius" also informed ALL the white employees that they didn't really understand basketball. He said "You have to be black to really understand basketball." [And he wondered why people didn't seek out his company as a lunch companion.] I was not going to focus on "census workers" because that is not where I obtained my figures. However, since you brought the subject to the forefront, I can comment on what I observed of the census workers in the "ghetto." I was appointed by a Democrat mayor to a position that included the "inner-city" (a polite word for "ghetto") and I became used to how business is done in that community. Also, my sister is a principal at an "inner city" school and she works with those who have made some bad decisions and basically ruined their lives. For example, only a small percentage of the children come from traditional homes. Back to the census. Why are you so eager to blame census takers? Do you not realize that many of them were unemployed people from the community? Why are you so eager to call them lazy? I did not find them lazy at all. I watched them in action, and I found their methods to be extremely thorough and even inventive. They were long on initiative and cleverness. Secondly, I am also aware that the "community leaders" helped the census workers by arranging meetings in area churches and local social halls to enable the census takers to reach even more people. Thirdly, the census takers have supervisors who PHYSICALLY check their progress. The workers were given routes and they were not aware of the supervisor's visual inspections. Do you realize that you CONSISTENTLY accuse those in authority? Doesn't that sound a bit narrow-minded and judgmental? It sounds as though you have a real problem with authority. PS. Do not confuse me with a white supremist. They are misguided. I am a pure GOPer. I believe that IN A DEMOCRACY everyone has an obligation to make the very best life they can . . . . . . BECAUSE we are "all in it together" and the better everyone else is, the better I am. The better you do, the less I have to do for you, and vice versa. And, we are only as strong as our weakest link. So, the stronger the weakest link, the better our society is as a whole. My philosophy is ENTIRELY at odds with the Leftist theory that people can't be dependent enough. That people must never be pushed, or goaded, or challenged. That no one should ever fail, so don't even try. That no one should ever be offended, so keep silent. The philosophy of the Left is anti-intellectual, anti-humanity, and anti-success. If that is the definition of a "non-bigot" then bigot doesn't sound that bad. At least I'm not a racist like Spike Lee. He believes that blacks are better than whites. That is truly the proof of a racist.

23rd February 2006 01:52 White Boy (4)

	Oh...and P.S. If you really believe that census workers spend as much time in the ghetto as they say they did... Then you're not only a poor judge of human nature (see:Laziness and duty report fudging) but you're more naive than I thought.