Spike Lee on Gentrification (Live in Brooklyn) by Daily Intelligencer published on 2014-02-26T03:01:52Z Genre spike lee Comment by dreyes2 REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA 2018-04-16T06:16:40Z Comment by NJ citizen @user-224823625: Cry me a river. 2017-02-20T01:04:53Z Comment by NJ citizen @user-224823625: In closing, your ancestors moved hundreds if not thousands of miles to put down root where you find yourselves now -- are you any less rugged than they were, snowflakes? With all the modern tools available to you? 2017-02-20T01:04:35Z Comment by NJ citizen @user-224823625: And if the cost of living becomes too high, you have every right to move. But Spike Lee complaining about that is laughable, as Democrats *drive* taxes and typically *block* development of housing stock -- and he's a rather high-profile example. 2017-02-20T01:04:00Z Comment by NJ citizen @user-224823625: Don't want to be pushed off the land beneath your feet? That's a good reason to own it; apparently most of you don't. 2017-02-20T01:03:49Z Comment by NJ citizen @user-224823625: Contrary to your assumptions, these objections to newcomers (as voiced here) are not any more understandable or defensibe when people of color (and their allies) do it, even when those arriving are well-heeled and white. To reference Michael Jackson, it's human nature -- no matter *who's* coming, and who's *already there*. 2017-02-20T01:03:36Z Comment by NJ citizen @user-224823625: Here it's the opposite: those same effete, educated liberals are invading *your* turf: the skipped-over, neglected, and run-down parts of American cities. Shoe's on the other foot now, isn't it. 2017-02-20T01:03:26Z Comment by NJ citizen @user-224823625: Well, note how so-called red states and districts shift blue as liberals move in and alter the political ecosystem, affecting the prevailing attitudes toward agriculture, hunting, and other activities. But those are primarily rural areas being changed -- for the better, I suspect most of you believe. 2017-02-20T01:03:15Z Comment by NJ citizen @user-224823625: However, when whites do it, you all drip with resentment. 2017-02-20T01:03:05Z Comment by NJ citizen @user-224823625: When Koreans, Arabs, and Hispanics move into urban areas and boost safety, real estate values, local economic activity, and school performance it's supposedly cultural enrichment, community revitalization, in short a welcome and even praiseworthy development. 2017-02-20T01:02:51Z Comment by NJ citizen "You can’t just come in when people have a culture that’s been laid down for generations and you come in and now shit gotta change because you’re here? Get the fuck outta here. Can’t do that!" (Spike Lee) 2017-02-20T01:02:39Z Comment by Thomas Meader what up girl!!! 2015-09-08T13:01:07Z Comment by Professor X @corpsicles: Proof, or STFU. 2015-02-14T22:26:44Z Comment by John DeLello Communities and realtors and politicians could care less about community or history, they are all high dollar call girls willing to play with the highest bidder. 2014-08-29T01:38:40Z Comment by John DeLello Spike has a pointe two. It's not cool to have the newcomers calling the pope on your pop for playing acoustic bass. Nice restaurants and shi shi cocktail bars and nice looking people does not counter the negatives of gentrification. Every American knows that The NYC metro area is unattainable for even educated well employed people. This same phenom is happening to those that grew up in places like Reno, Denver, mountain towns in the west and farms in the mid-west. No one living in a beach town in Cal. Has the time or. Means 2014-08-29T01:37:12Z Comment by Runnin76 "Reverse migration". Excellent point. This atrocity occurs nation wide. It's happening in my town. Basically being told, "to heck with you & the pursuance of the american dream"! 2014-07-28T15:43:36Z Comment by sheryl-bullock-hooper @maofdeuce: But having this been going on in Hartford, Ct since the 80's. I lived in the town from 82- 88, right across from St. Francis Hospital. 2014-06-09T23:36:11Z Comment by Victor Velasquez 12 @nathaniel-vasquez-o-fearghaile: I don't get it 2014-06-07T01:41:33Z Comment by Lenair tucker This is why he is more than a Filmmaker. Spike is an Icon. 2014-03-31T04:36:33Z Comment by 6v4i76 http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/gentrification-spike-lee-article-1.1703113 2014-03-29T16:36:45Z Comment by StanLovesHouse! I love that. "We've been here" we weren't important enough for these services and benefits. It wasn't profitable 2014-03-05T01:33:15Z Comment by neuronburg an ignorant racist speaks 2014-03-04T15:38:03Z Comment by Akeem James 1 OOOOOhhhhhhh!!! 2014-03-03T04:21:52Z Comment by Akeem James 1 I can't wait to see the new NYC 2014-03-03T04:20:51Z Comment by Akeem James 1 Yo I can't wait till I'm back in NYC. I love living near The Whites. 2014-03-03T04:19:44Z Comment by VIVVYDOLL Spike spoke the TRUTH!! ... folks can't handle the TRUTH!! 2014-03-02T03:59:15Z Comment by guitarwizardsofthefuture this is goofy! 2014-03-02T00:50:36Z Comment by maofdeuce I totally agree with Spike. I'm not from NY but I Love it, it's my other home & my close friends in Brooklyn, Harlem and The Bronx are being treated as if they're the outsiders when they've BEEN there the whole time!! I'm from Hartford, CT and we are experiencing the same thing. 2014-03-02T00:09:38Z Comment by ImanE II Download house.me.ma/78916.htm 2014-03-01T18:37:55Z Comment by Rakita O'Neal Boom!!! Because it doesnt matter if its 1964 or 2014 our country still believes White is Right!!! 2014-03-01T08:39:12Z
