One of my sisters forwarded this to me and I thought I’d post it. Spike doesn’t break it down to anything super deep, but I playfully like his rationale. If I were him, that’s all the logic I’d need.
…btw, I officially turned “black” after seeing Do The Right Thing during the summer of 1989 (I’m assuming ’89 as I recall the words to that Public Enemy song). Memories… I saw it with some friends down at the movie theater that used to be in downtown Baltimore, nearish to Harborplace. I know it’s long since been shut down…Seriously though, that movie was definitely a defining moment for me.
Check out the short interview below…
Spike Lee: Hillary, ‘Massuh Clinton’ ‘would lie on a stack of Bibles’
The filmmaker Spike Lee, in New York Magazine, weighs in on the presidential race:
What do you think of Obama?
I’m riding my man Obama. I think he’s a visionary. Actually, Barack told me the first date he took Michelle to was Do the Right Thing. I said, “Thank God I made it. Otherwise you would have taken her to Soul Man. Michelle would have been like, ‘What’s wrong with this brother?’?”Does this mean you’re down on the Clintons?
The Clintons, man, they would lie on a stack of Bibles. Snipers? That’s not misspeaking; that’s some pure bulls***. I voted for Clinton twice, but that’s over with. These old black politicians say, “Ooh, Massuh Clinton was good to us, massuh hired a lot of us, massuh was good!” Hoo! Charlie Rangel, David Dinkins—they have to understand this is a new day. People ain’t feelin’ that stuff. It’s like a tide, and the people who get in the way are just gonna get swept out into the ocean.
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