Debbie Schlussel has an interesting hit piece on Spike Lee for Front Page Magazine. I'm going to call it what it is: race baiting.
On "Inside Man" she writes:
The first is an exciting action thriller . . . if you don't mind that Whites and Jews are weak, idiotic, evil, and/or calculating, while the Black police detectives are the exact opposite of all these and save the day. Probably to quell criticism of his past films' rampant anti-Semitism, there is even a Holocaust theme in "Inside Man."
There is a problem with what she wrote: Spike Lee directed the movie but didn't write the movie. The writer of the movie is a man named Russell Gewirtz.
She writes this about "Get On the Bus":
1996's "Get on the Bus"--Ditto, again. It celebrates Lee's hero, racist loon Louis Farrakhan and his Million--or is that 300,000--Man March. A Jewish bus driver, who refuses to continue to drive because of Farrakhan's blatant anti-Semitism, is the movie's villain for doing so.
There's a problem, again, with what she wrote:
- Spike Lee didn't write the film, he was a director.
- Two Jewish men wrote the film.
About "Malcolm X" she writes:
And don't forget "Malcolm X" (1992), which justifies the Black Islamic leader's hatred of Whites and Jews.
Well, the movie was about Malcolm X. There was no justification of Malcolm's hatred of whites nor Jewish people. She seemed to have missed what happened to Malcolm X after his visit to Mecca.
Finally, her next to last paragraph:
But no more cameos or starring roles in movies for Lee. Instead, he's gunning for the Lifetime Achievement Award for Best Race-Card Player.
Sorry, but with this piece, maybe she is in the running.
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