Spike Lee released the trailer for his forthcoming film, Chi-Raq last week. In an interview with ABC Chicago, the director explains what he hopes people get out of the film.
“What we hope to do with this film is to have some really, really have people be honest and stop putting their head in the sand act like it’s not happening and spark discussion, dialogue,” he says. “How can we give our young people hope? These young guys, they don’t have any hope. They don’t have any value in life.”
When asked about the criticism the trailer has received, especially from Chicago rappers saying the film falsely portrays their lives, Lee compares the situation to another historical time period.
“That sounds like those redneck crackers in the South,” the Brooklyn, New York director says, “when Civil Rights people come down to Mississippi or Alabama, ‘These rabble rousers come down here. We know how to treat our Negros good. We don’t need nobody else come up there tell us how to work with our Negros.’ Same type of mentality.”
To watch the interview, visit ABC Chicago.
Dumb ass emo fucks, y’all go around saying’ niggas’ all day(albeit when there are no black folks around) as if it were the ‘in’ thing yet got your panties all torn up because he said ‘rednecks’. Bunch of dumb ass, this isn’t for y’all, this movie is directed at black folks, we are the ones suffering in these inner-cities no ma’s land. Stay comfy in your little suburbs et al. Stay out of this one.
no man’s land…
What a fucking lame
i seriously don’t understand that analogy at all. spike lee is a clown.
You don’t comprehend the analogy?? smdh.
Rednecks: commence to speak!
Spike lee always crying about racial stuff but just referred to group … good one spike, u hypocrite jealous
Now listen to all the one-track minded types who want more simplistic violence talk
Hiphopdx won’t let me put the exact quote of what spike lee referred to white people as.. lmao this is stupid it’s asking me “you kiss your mother with that mouth” …. I’m requiring what u guys reported how retarded
*requoting
Jealous ass pos
Trey to type in redd neckk crack erss the correct way and it won’t let u post
Hiphopdx is fucking stupid
He’s a fuckin bigot.
He’s just trying to use racism for promotion is why he said that. He is just as much a problem rather then the solution
This is where the word is accepted he’s a n i g g e r Just like if someone white said something like that they’d be a pig fuckin piece of shit. Same thing.
I don’t understand the critique from the rappers. Spike lee is an artist prominent for reflecting the struggle. He is putting an artistic twist on the issue. Rappers rap about violence in Chi all day long there is no need for Spike to reflect the situation in the same way as everybody else. Is hip hop not an art form? This shows me how removed minders day hip hop is from understanding what hip hop is about
he just gave rhymefest and all those other idiots ether in one paragraph…
Redneck crackers