Spike Lee Lashes Out at Eastwood: ‘The Man Is Not My Father and We’re Not on a Plantation’

June 9th, 2008 Posted By Lftbhndagn.

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If you haven’t been following the saga - Pat has the first part of the story in DT June 6th here @ 6:24 A.M.

One word for Mr Lee - Racist

That about sums it all up.

ABC News

Some people might back down when Dirty Harry tells them to shut up. Not Spike Lee.

After Eastwood told him to “shut his face” and stop criticizing him about not including African-Americans in his 2006 Iwo Jima movies, “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima,” Lee’s lashing out.

“First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either,” he told ABCNEWS.com. “He’s a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ — come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.”

Lee has a proposal for Eastwood:

“If he wishes, I could assemble African-American men who fought at Iwo Jima and I’d like him to tell these guys that what they did was insignificant and they did not exist,” he said. “I’m not making this up. I know history. I’m a student of history. And I know the history of Hollywood and its omission of the one million African-American men and women who contributed to World War II.”

“Not everything was John Wayne, baby,” Lee added.

For weeks, Lee and Eastwood have been battling over the inclusion of African-Americans in their WWII films. At the Cannes Film Festival in May, Lee, whose next film, “Miracle at St. Anna,” is about an all-black U.S. division fighting in Italy, slammed Eastwood, saying the filmmaker overlooked the role of black soldiers during World War II.

“He did two films about Iwo Jima back to back and there was not one black soldier in both of those films,” Lee told reporters at Cannes. “Many veterans, African-Americans, who survived that war are upset at Clint Eastwood. In his vision of Iwo Jima, Negro soldiers did not exist. Simple as that. I have a different version.”

Then, Eastwood threw some punches of his own. In an interview to promote his latest film, “Changeling,” Eastwood said Lee should “shut his face.”

“Has he ever studied the history?” Eastwood growled to British paper The Guardian, which published the interview today. Regarding “Flags of Our Fathers,” Eastwood admitted there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima, “but they didn’t raise the flag. The story is ‘Flags of Our Fathers,’ the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go, ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.”


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10 Responses

  1. franchie

    “First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either”

    sure, but he made “True Crime”, something that can label Clint Eastwood of non-racist

  2. Leatherneck

    ‘The Man Is Not My Father…’

    I’m sure Eastwood wouldn’t want a bratty little baby like you anyways.

    ‘…and We’re Not on a Plantation’

    You *are* on a plantation, deep inside your barren wasteland of a mind.

    Pack your shit & move to Rwanda. They’ll show you what enslavement really is. 800,000 of your own people chopped to bits & pieces by…..your own race.

  3. AmericanJarhead

    Good on Clint for standing up to PC Spike Lee. Sure there were blacks on Iwo but Clint argues correctly that the film was about the flag raisers not an overall snapshot of the battle.

    There are a lot of different types of people who fought on Iwo and everywhere else but that does not mean you are required to represent them all if you’re making a film.

    I suppose Lee would want a story about the Apollo space program to include black astronauts! Dimwit.

  4. Phil N Blanx

    Lee sounds like another Wright disciple - don’t let facts get in the way of spreading the hate.

  5. Dan (The Infidel)

    You ought to join the KKK Spike, you sound just like them.
    The only one on the plantation in this story… fool… is you. Everyone else has moved forward….or are you just stuck on stupid?

  6. robbie

    Spike should “shut his pie hole” History is always being rewritten by the libtards who want us to believe their history. the facts are that blacks did not fight on Iwo Jima. they were cooks or ammo handlers and spike should read a real history book. These are the same people who want us to believe that the egptians were blacks which they were not.

  7. Gary in Midwest

    Spike Lee’s attitude makes the hyphenated American seem like someone standing with one foot in this country and one foot out. If everyone hyphenated their ancestry assimilation would never take place and the “melting pot” would be nothing but various oils and waters.
    Eastwood was telling a specific historical account. I don’t view this as a race issue, but obviously Spike Lee does.
    I would imagine he’s pissed that a white Mathew Broderick played the part of Col. Robert Gould Shaw in the movie Glory.

  8. deathstar

    Spikes a dildo. What does he want, Eastwood to distort history and put black troops in the movie who were not there in real life? BS. Blacks have a proud military history in the US, they dont need it embellished with lies. If clint were to do what lee wants then we should remake the movie about the Tuskegee Airmen with token whites thrown in for PC.

  9. Lock and Load

    Spike Lee, Rev Wright and all of these race baiters should take the advice of one of their own, the late great Bob Marley. In one of his popular songs he said this… “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none can free us but we ourselves.” :beer: :beer:

    As long as these people continue to view everything through the prism of race, for them racism will continue in perpetuity. :roll:

  10. Boo Boo

    OK, Clint wasn’t making a documentary, either. So he doesn’t have a high duty to be accurate. Spike Lee has gotten way farther in life than his talent or personality would otherwise dictate. It seems to me that most of the “stars” on TV, media, movies, have gone far on being an obnoxious borderline crazy, probably crazy person. The “normal” people are too boring to be put on TV, to be given a chance at being a director, etc. Spike Lee does view everything through the prism of race. That is what makes him so obnoxious and wrong.

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