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Is Spike Lee the Jesse Jackson of Film?

June 10, 2008 - 9:15 am - by Roger L Simon
Sam
2008-06-11 06:37:11

So, let’s suppose that Clint HAD included in his film a shot–to placate Spike’s professed desire for accuracy–of black troops humping munitions and crates of C rations up onto the beach at Iwo Jima. I mean, that’s what that black company of soldiers did at Iwo, right? Haul supplies? Wouldn’t that lead Spike to level an even more viscous charge of racism against Clint, this time for depicting blacks working like…slaves?

There is of course no way to appease racist grievance mongers like Spike and Al Sharpton and that whole bunch, for their grievances are just a sham. What they really want is attention, power, and money.