Mamma mia!

*groans*

But then in Jungle Fever, Flipper Purify didn't hate on that Angie character, but her dad was pissed…which I think was just Mr. Lee's way of showing the older generations still seething racism? Hmmmm…

Well, Ima gonna go get a slice of da pizza and mull it over :)

John Turturro is such a fuckin' great actor.

eaaaaatt it spike

that's the best part of that entire movie. *LOL*

I was a kid in NY in the 1980s when Yusef Hawkins and Michael Griffith were murdered by two separate gangs of Italian-American teenagers for the crime of being black and entering their neighborhoods. Hawkins was a 16 yr old responding to an ad for a used car for sale in Bensonhurst and Griffith's car broke down in Howard Beach. When my friends and I watched Spike Lee's movies as teens with this history in mind, we didn't see stereotypes — we saw the folks who were held up watermelons and screamed racial slurs at the demonstrators protesting these murders.

Spike Lee>>> pot, kettle, black.

Sterio types and cliches exist FOR A REASON. A really cool guy I met right after high school gave me awesome advice; never, ever be a cliche of whatever you are. If your gay, don't act like a Nancy, if your Jewish, don't be cheap, if your Irish, don't be an alcoholic and write sad stories about how mean the english are…..etc.

that guy doesn't seem so cool to me.

I agree Jasmine L.

I grew up in the Bronx. I have had only negative experiences with Italian Americans from being called a "dirty darkie" by a pizza shop owner in Castle Hill when I was 7 to my uncle being beaten into a coma by a group of Italian men for yes being in the wrong neighborhood. Of course the men got away with it. My aunt also had her florist window smashed in the 80s because they did not want her in the neighborhood. I am also Catholic and had to go to church with them and school with them. It was awful. My unfortunate experiences have run the spectrum from dim to dismal to down right disgusting. The sad part is that while the race relations arent as overt, confrontational and heated (I guess), they still exist in a big way! I know exactly where Spike Lee is coming from in his films.

P.S. I was too young to remember the deaths of those men but I have heard enough about them.

I'm a black italian who grew up in a swedish neighbourhood in france. Eveyone threw watermelon pizzas at me when i walked down the street. And i'm 68!

stop moaning.

I also live in a hole in the ground.

And i have one leg. And my good leg has a club foot. talk about bad luck!

prago!

Life's tough.

For those of you crying about "Spike Lee is right - I grew up with racism from Italians (wine wine wine)" you're blind if you don't see that you're acting racist. Prejudice is to "prejudge someone with little to no knowledge" of them. Taking your slice of history and holding all Italians to your personal experience is no different from me saying, "I grew up in an all-black neighborhood and EVERYONE was in or related to someone in a gang. All the black kids were loud, ignorant, unmotivated, and poor." Actually, this is true. LOL. Now I live in an upper-middle class white suburb and all the kids are in school and striving to better themselves. When I pass through the old neighborhood, nothing has changed. It must be the black race.

Pretty offensive and ignorant huh? Wouldn't it be horrible if everyone (based on my personal experience) held the entire black race to that standard? Would my negative personal history with blacks and black neighborhoods make it ok to judge every black person? (make movies about them and pass it off as 100% fact?) And then when black people complained, I could fall back on the claims of other white people with similar experiences?

I don't know - it seems pretty unfair to me. But I guess that's why racists are ignorant. They lack the big picture.

White people get the shit kicked out of them when they go into black hoods…..

boo fucking hoo

Spike was not saying all Italians were the same he was making a movie about a neighborhood, and what some people did that happened to be Italians. When Spike spoke about the Clint Eastwood movie what he was not saying there should be Black people raising the flag however there should definity be some on the beach. Because there were Blacks fighting and dieing there.

i lived in new york for a few years and witnessed Italian racism first hand on a few occasions…i find the ones born in the u.s waving their little flags to be very sad.i think they know their time is up.
and whats with all this sex with children covered up by the child loving vatican.there is more gays in that city than anywhere in the world

i believe tha lee is too racist and i met too much afro american people that are the more racist group in the u.s.a…..they hate jew, latinos,white an italians,chinese and so on…
they divide the world in white and black, they don't think that we are 6 miliard of people and it's imposible that we are white , yellow or black……if i am italian, i am italian or mediterran, i am not a blond protestan so i can be and i won't be considered as white, just mediterran as our country sea! latinos are hispanic or black white mixed,mixed with maya and so on….