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

46. @ little spikey lee=RACIST

Good points and light years beyond some of the childish racist drivel that preceded it.

Bottom line: Spike, if it isn't historically accurate, do as Clint says and shut your pie-hole. The plantation comment was childish and unnecessary and you KNOW your wouldn't have said it to a fellow black man, so NOW who's the racist? Quit making us look bad. Some of these idiots (*cough*sickofnonsense*cough) are actually dumb enough to believe ALL blacks support your beliefs and think similarly to you.

Posted at 3:07PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Finally, Intelligence

47. P.S. if you're on here WHINING about reverse racism and COMPLAINING about inequities to whites, you're NO BETTER than SPIKE, SHARPTON, or any of the people YOU whine so much about. Here's an idea.... EVERYONE GROW UP and stop whining. Our nation is slowly being taken over by the east because immigrants are busy innovating and building up their worth while blacks and whites still sit around throwing little race pebbles at each other.

Posted at 3:11PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Finally, Intelligence

48. Glad to racism is still alive and well in the U.S...I was concerned you undercover neo-nazis had given up the fight...LOL @ you simps..! White Power...LOL....

Posted at 3:11PM on Jun 7th 2008 by illdog

49. Of course Spike was attacking Clint personally. He's implying Clint is racist by not exaggerating the contribution of blacks on Iwo Jima. He wouldn't be happy unless Clint had the Tuskegee Airmen raising the flag. I'm sick of Spike and his race card.. which is all he seems to have to play

Posted at 3:12PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Navdoug

50. Why does it have to be a black thing?
There are so many famous people out there that have to say crazy sh!t about this person, that person is racist, they said this, they did this?
Black people can say racist things about white people all the time, then pull the race card and makes a big issue our of nothing!
But white people on the other hand........
Can't even dare to do something minor without being accused of being racist.
Im sure Jesse Jackson will be making a big issue out of this! (that is if he hasnt yet-)

Posted at 3:17PM on Jun 7th 2008 by RoXaNnE

51. funny how it is always a black person caling racism if there aint no black in anything. just an appetizer of things to come with Obama. always a white mans fault if a black person doesnt get their way. man am i sick of that crap.

Posted at 3:20PM on Jun 7th 2008 by sick of race cards

52.
Spud Lee should shut his face.

Posted at 3:46PM on Jun 7th 2008 by phil

53. It's not his fault ... Spike feels very inadequate and one's inferiority complexes surface like this.

Actually, asking him to shut his face is a most kind response, and advice for him

He should just throw up his hands say sorry ... "I was just stupid, even going there. All people of any human decent have various levels of selfishness or discrimination ... I the most in making only black movies and here puting this false farcical staement on a pedestal was wrong ... I know how much Clint admires and values people of different races to the point of honoring Nelson Mandella with a movie of his life ... and surely Clint has put money where his mouth is there ... sorry if there were no blacks with the marines during the Iwo Jima battle ... it would be a false pampering if he had interjected blacks just for the sake of pandering to people like me. AND, funnily its only I in my infinitesimally small mind who suddenly dreamt up something like this ... Sorry ... I need a psychologist to analyse what my problem is."

Please do that Spike, and this thing will go away ... in a much worse affected world where food is being turned into fuel to BURN and starving people are shafted even more ... people can't afford to go to work because of fuel prices ... and food prices .... you are thinking of IWO JIMA? a MOVIE???

Nuts!

Posted at 3:23PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Nada

54. Actually, there were plenty of blacks in the Marines and at Iwo Jima--just not at the iconic flag raising. But we're talking about a 2 -year old movie. Why didn't Mr. Lee criticize it when it came out? Because he didn't need the press. Now that he has his own WWII black perspective movie coming out, he raises the issue to both get attention and draw comparisons between the two movies. Good luck, Mr. Lee. Your movies aren't all that bad, but you do have trouble with the endings. And remember, the angry young man becomes the bitter old man.
Peace,
JCS

Posted at 3:27PM on Jun 7th 2008 by JCS

55. "17. So why did Clint not show black soldiers in both movies? Why could'nt he just answer the accusation instead of berating the man?"

He DID answer the question. There were no black people involved in the flag raising at Iwo Jima which the film is all about.

and what the hell is REVERSE racism? It's racism, period.

Posted at 3:27PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Brei

56. Hey Lee! That will be Mr. Eastwood To You

Posted at 3:35PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Cottonmouth

57. # 15 your comment is dumb. Blacks fought in the Civil War, WWI and WWII in both the front lines and as relievers. I believe that SPIKE LEE has a valid point in his claim. WHY? Because how can we just dismiss the fact that BLACKS were a major part of the American WARS and that most if not all of them were in the FRONT LINES fighting to gain something. Did you watch GLORY? Perhaps most of you here should. I love Clint and He is a faboulous Director, but to no show Blacks in his movies just makes it a bit pointless. IT's the same as to not show WHITES in all of the War Movies that have been filmed in that passed decades. Do you also know that most of the young men and women that Enlist in the Armed Forces happen to be mostly Blacks and Hispanic? I could imagine that it was the same back then as well. Spike has the right to play the race card just as many have done before him. How about the fact that many whites didn't like that Blacks and Hispanic were allowed in to great schools because of their race? Or even allowed to participate in the Armed forces even after they proved that they belonged there? Go back and do some reading. I am not White and I am not American, but I have studied about many Wars. And what's funny is that most of the thing I learned in MY country differs greatly from What I've learned in this one. History books only reflect a portion of the truth.

Posted at 3:39PM on Jun 7th 2008 by anne

58. I think what Spike Lee was pointing out is natural for him. He is a black man who cares about black people's issues. The first thing he is going to notice about a historical anything is "are black people being portrayed and how". Thats who he is. There is nothing wrong with that. People have their areas of expertise and interest. So his commet is not surprising. He asks, "why there are no black soldiers being portrayed?" To white people this might seem a meaningless point, but if you are black and you are watching this movie with your child, its kind of awkward when there are no black people portrayed. White people, if you cant relate, picture what it would feel like to only watch Spike Lee movies. It would be a little awkward.... We need someone like Lee who is willing to take the heat for asking questions that shouldnt need to be asked. Lastly, Clint is a jerk for not admitting he was (at least subcoinsiously) being racially exclusive by not at least including som black extras to represent acurately the contribution of black soliders in American Wars.

Posted at 3:41PM on Jun 7th 2008 by dreamer

59. I think what Spike Lee was pointing out is natural for him. He is a black man who cares about black people's issues. The first thing he is going to notice about a historical anything is "are black people being portrayed and how". Thats who he is. There is nothing wrong with that. People have their areas of expertise and interest. So his commet is not surprising. He asks, "why there are no black soldiers being portrayed?" To white people this might seem a meaningless point, but if you are black and you are watching this movie with your child, its kind of awkward when there are no black people portrayed. White people, if you cant relate, picture what it would feel like to only watch Spike Lee movies. It would be a little awkward.... We need someone like Lee who is willing to take the heat for asking questions that shouldnt need to be asked. Lastly, Clint is a jerk for not admitting he was (at least subcoinsiously) being racially exclusive by not at least including som black extras to represent acurately the contribution of black soliders in American Wars.

Posted at 3:42PM on Jun 7th 2008 by dlite

60. Spike Lee is a bigot, and always will be one. Eastwood wanted the film to look real. At Two Jima, you did not have a black person involved with the flag. Lee only wants to create problems. Too bad, he does not place some of that energy into films, that everyone wants to see. This article with TMZ has comments that are leaning toward Spike Lee instead of netural reporting. Eastwood is a great Actor and Director, and Spike Lee has not even reached to that point of success as Eastwood.

Posted at 3:57PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Mim