spike lee should stick to making movies. that's more than enough of a medium to indoctrinate the public with his views.
the "people like him" comment is a prime example of what happens when people make assumptions. i get the imagery that is attached to hangings in the black community, but the phrase "so and so should be hung" is not in itself racist. when the phrase is inserted into a racial discussion it is up to the observer to recognize the context, which did have to do with racism. but was the statement itself racist? would it be racist in a completely different context?
let me ask phillipchristian this: is the statement "spike lee should be hung" racist because it is about spike lee (a black man), or is it racist because of the conversation in which it was uttered (typed?), which itself has to do with racism? if i say "bill o'reilly should be hung, it's people like him that keep racism alive.", could that be considered racist because i'm mentioning hanging in the same sentence as racism, or is it not racist because bill o'reilly is white?
my point in all this is to illustrate the big sickening game of telephone that ensues when someone makes a comment and someone else assigns social or political undertones to it. what could have simply been a bad choice of words has now spiraled into a racial argument. if a racial argument was not the original intent of the comment, then who is to blame if a racial argument ensues?
this is why racial tensions will never be quelled in my lifetime.
