Dennis Prager mentioned this story on his radio show today and it is quite interesting. Spike Lee was in Wilmington, North Carolina and spoke about education:
One of the keys to success, he believes, is education.
"I was very fortunate when I was growing up the slave mentality wasn't
espoused in my house," he said. "Education was valued. It was expected that
I would go to college."
He also grew up when those who were smart and did well in school were
respected.
"Now many African-Americans are ridiculed if they speak correctly, go to
school and aren't on a corner drinking a 40," he said. "How is it that the
values that our parents taught us, our grandparents taught us, have been
turned around?"
"Parents, we have to be vigilant with our children, not let them watch
television without adult supervision," he said.
Mr. Lee said that music videos, with their images of liquor, expensive cars,
gyrating semi-nude women and "bling-bling" are a problem.
"BET does one of the biggest disservices to black people," he said of the
cable channel. "You have to think, 'What is the content? What is the
message?'
"That's worse than crack," he said.
The director also encouraged people to not support those who promote a
message that doesn't benefit black people
"You don't have to go to their movies. You don't have to buy their records. A
whole lot of black people don't want to say anything about R. Kelly," he said
about the entertainer who is being accused of child pornography. "Well, I've
got a daughter."
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Can you imagine the reaction if a black conservative or a white person had made the same comments?
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