Spike to Clint: "We're Not on a Plantation!"

31. Everybody is missing the point. Wether SPIKE should have brought this up or not is somthing different. The question is Valid. Why didn't CLINT Show any Black Soldiers in this Two War Movies. If he just explains why and bring about a discussion about this, it would be much more productive than Character assassination. Whcih is always the argument of the Lame. It's a simple Question. Stick to that.

Posted at 2:44PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Joeffrey

32. Its funny in life how people always find what they are looking for....

Spike Lee is a racist and that's why he sees racism, those are the glasses he sees all life through....People's skin

Clint shouldn't even respond to this piece of trash....

Plus Spike is CHEAP! I have a good friend who waits tables in NYC and said Spike is a well known cheap tipper at his restaurant and complains about EVERYTHING. This guy is real LOSER! Go home SPIKE! Even your Michael Jordan commercials were lame...

Posted at 2:47PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Harvey\\\'s Boyfriend

33. Im a little tired of the emailer 'tiredofnonsense' whose abhorrent lack of education appears in his child like hate emails....what nonsense!...a guy like him should shut his face!

Posted at 2:46PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Theseer

34. Everybody is missing the point. Wether SPIKE should have brought this up or not is somthing different. The question is Valid. Why didn't CLINT Show any Black Soldiers in this Two War Movies. If he just explains why and bring about a discussion about this, it would be much more productive than Character assassination. Whcih is always the argument of the Lame. It's a simple Question. Stick to that.

Posted at 4:19PM on Jul 10th 2008 by Joe

35. Why the hell does this littlle Jimminy Cricket F*** have to go around looking to make EVERYTHING a race issue. Look, uh, SPIKE, you just keep making those haed-hitting purpose-driven sham movies tou make, and leave a real filmmaking MASTER alone. By the way, SPIKE, if there were a new war declared, and there was a draft , we wouldn't see anything of you but the soles of your LUGZ getting your weenie ass OUT of here.( America) You got a real big troublemaking mouth brutha.

Posted at 2:50PM on Jun 7th 2008 by bedhead

36. Hey Joe, what do you think would happen if Clint asked why Spike Lee never has white people in HIS movies? There would be a tirade like you've never seen, without a doubt lead by Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, about a "white man questioning a black man's film making." Clint doesn't have to answer to him about why he didn't include black soldiers in his films. Perhaps if someone intelligent had presented the question to him in a presentable forum, he would have provided the answer. Or, maybe he assumes Spike can find something like that in, oh, say, a HISTORY book? Maybe he's trying to encourage him to educate himself instead of always giving him the answers like he's apparently used to. I know it's like Kryptonite to him, but he should try picking up a book once in awhile instead of pulling out his well-worn race card.

Posted at 2:58PM on Jun 7th 2008 by ManBearPig Hunter

37. mildbrew

He did answer the question. Shut his face was only part of what he said. Stop using TMZ as your only news source.

Posted at 2:55PM on Jun 7th 2008 by me

38. Let Spike keep talking he just keeps showing the ignorance of himself. Spike is not a hide in the wool racist he is very open and always has been. I am a minority but probably not in Spike's eyes because I am not black. His movies employ majority of Blacks. Why doesn't Spike make a movie about the Japanese battalion in WWII that had more Medalof Honor Winners than any battalion in the history or US. We, Japanese lost everything in WWII, what did we do? We went back to work and earned it!

Posted at 2:57PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Minorityinseattle

39. Spike Lee....waiste of oxygen. A guy like him should keep his mouth shut. Remember his joy when an innocent man was pulled out of a truck and nearly beat to death...somethings last forever...his idiocy being one of them...so Spike..people dont make fun of you cause your black...its cause your stupid..rude..uninformed..

Posted at 3:43PM on Jun 7th 2008 by jer

40. This would only be a big deal if a talented African American were disturbed by this, but Spike Lee isn't happy unless he's trying to play off white guilt. Plantation? Are you serious? Clint has made culturally diverse films, and done so with the premise in mind that they were historically accurate. Spike has made movies casting Denzel playing they role of Angry Black Man No. 1, and to his credit, has never said anything about his own movies making African Americans seem like angry, self-serving shills. He is a sad blow hard who should join with other useless blow hards like Rev Al who do nothing but take black people down a road of shame and sadness. Spike, you weren't a slave, you weren't raised on a plantation, and no one is out to get you. I'm Native American, and my people have been S'd on more than anyone in this country, we don't continually cry and whine and aren't on the news everyday as you try to ploy off another races guilt. The Japanese in this country were totally S'd on for years, ever here of a prison interment camp, that was recent buddy. I don't hear George Takei crying about how white people take him down everyday. Do something about it, make an important movie, and do one that is accurate. Malcom X, you should be ashamed at that horrible piece of historically inaccurate claptrap.

Posted at 2:56PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Chris

41. Spike is just an idiot regardless of his race. This isn't the first time he's opened his mouth and shoved a foot in it. He's free to say what the heck he wants but what was he trying to start? The only thing he has done is make myself look like a damn fool.

Posted at 6:13PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Brewer4

42. The only nonsense thinking people are tired of is your racist tirade back to Africa speech.

Spike made these remarks all by himself not all black people. Spike started this argument w/ Eastwood not all black people.
This is about Spike and not about Obama. Obama is not and never was a Muslim. So for thinking people do the legitimate rsearch yourself and ignore the fools.

By the way Mr. tired of, Mr. Eastwood's wife would be included in your back to Africa tirade as her father is a black man.

Posted at 3:33PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Rachelwithsense

43. Racism is a cave man way of thinking and I think that some Americans are immature and need to evolve.

Grow up and use your brain for something other than hatred. This is the 21st century. Go back to the cave you crawled out of.

Here's to Spike and Eastwood - you both make important films, but really Clint, that was a pretty uneducated response.

When will this generation of thinking die off???

Posted at 3:01PM on Jun 7th 2008 by homo sapien

44. What is Spike bringing this subject up for anyway? It is gratuitous.
By the way, I was really looking forward to the film version of 'Clockers' one of the best New Jersey ghetto books of all time. Spike ruined it and made it a cartoon.

Posted at 3:17PM on Jun 8th 2008 by tombarnes

45. is this the coming presidential election, race card, that is why obama no!

Posted at 3:04PM on Jun 7th 2008 by susan