From the NY Daily News: New Orleans will be on camera again soon, filmmaker Spike Lee told CNN. Lee is planning to make a documentary for HBO on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – and Lee said his film will even consider whether the government’s response was deliberately slow.
“I don’t find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of New Orleans,” he said.
At first glance it sounds as if Spike has had a lobotomy. But the truth is the poor guy’s feature career is over and he has to drum up a little work here. Can you imagine Spike Lee in a race blind society? He wouldn’t have a thing to do. He must be getting worried, considering that recent poll that said seventy-five percent of Americans are cool with interracial dating.
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3 Comments
1. Duke:Lee follows Farrakahn in propagating the “whitey blew up the levees in New Orleans” line. Good choice by HBO, no?
Oct 14, 2005 - 7:58 am 2. Percy Dovetonsils:Methinks Spike is just a wee bit pissy that he’s considered old hat, and that the hot new race-baiter du jour is the pisher who does “The Boondocks.”
But he does bring us back to the eternal tension: isn’t George Bush (aka Hitler VonHalliburtonKatrina) supposed to be a moron, or is he an evil Machiavellian genius instead? Do his moron/evil genius sides switch on and off, like some sort of Sybil, or what?
I wish our betters would enlighten us peons on this.
Oct 14, 2005 - 8:44 am 3. kparker:What’s “interracial dating”? Around here (greater Seattle area) it’s so common no one even notices or thinks about it anymore.
Oct 14, 2005 - 10:47 am