Spike Lee Quotes
You know he has that white hood somewhere in his closet.
Lott was under great fire for publicly stating that if the Dixiecrat’s and segregationists had won the Presidency in 1948, things would be better today.
Spike Lee, Filmmaker, Comment on Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (Republican, MS), Quoted on CNN, December 18, 2002
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Thomas was a Black, ultra-conservative Supreme Court justice. David Duke was a Louisiana politician who was a white supremacist and supported Nazi and Klu Klux Klan (KKK) positions and philosophy. He actually was a KKK member. See {624955} and {600279} as examples.
The Black campaign staffer was asked if he was anti-Semitic.
He was referring to the people of India and not the American Indians for who he also had little respect like almost any minority.
Senator Glen Taylor was arrested on May 1, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama by police commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, for attempting to use a door reserved for African Americans, rather than the whites-only door, while attempting to attend a meeting of the Southern Negro Youth Congress. He was subsequently convicted of disorderly conduct. It is hard to believe that such a thing happened in America but it did. ER was one of the few Democrats to condemn such behavior. She took a great deal of criticism from the Southern Democrats for this column. They claimed she called White Southerners “Stupid.”
West, a very articulate, personable and accomplished Tea Party Candidate had won one of the 2010 congressional races in Florida. After two years in office, his rhetoric was so negative, vituperative, hateful and obviously untrue that the voters turned him out.
When called upon to resign by members of the town council, he refused on the grounds that he had a right to freely express is views of President Obama or anyone else. There was no impeachment statute at the time in Wolfeboro and people were not happy about waiting for the next election. There was much pressure brought to bear including some who boycotted the town. He resigned 2 monnths later.
He was a Senator from Pennsylvania when he made this remark.
In 2017 President Donald Trump, in resposnse to a Nazi, KKK, & White Supremicists "March" in Charlottesville, Virginia and a citizen counter protest, in whcih one of the White Supremicists ran down in a car a number of citizen protesters killing one, equated the two groups be saying that there was violence on both sides. Most of the country was outraged, and Frazier was the first member of the President's Business Advisory Council resigned in protest, making this statement. Many did so also, and Trump in a desparate effort to avoid the embarassing news each time there was anotehr resignation be a leading CEO, disbanded his 3 citizen advisorty councils.
The attitude of the non-Muslims at that time was based on the Muslim attacks in the Punjab on Sikhs where entire Sikh villages and neighborhoods in towns and cities were murdered—every man woman and child. In many cases women were first raped. The Muslims had been whipped up by the leaders of the Muslim League to put terrorist pressure on the Sikh, Hindu and British to meet the League's political and territorial demands for an Independent Pakistan. Soon there was retaliation in kind and there were many Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims engaged in internecine slaughter and behaving "little better than animals".
Patton was an anti-Semite which was then not uncommon for Southerners of his socio economic class. However, for those Jews fighting in his Army his attitude was usually very positive.
This quotation was used by the Lyndon B. Johnson 1964 Campaign as: “We represent the majority of the people in Alabama who hate niggerism, Catholicism, Judaism, and all the isms of the whole world.” So said Robert Creel of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. He also said, “I like Barry Goldwater. He needs our help.” The second statement was made at a different time.
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and professor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut with She's Gotta Have It (1986). He has since written and directed such films as Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), 25th Hour (2002), Inside Man (2006), Chi-Raq (2015), BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Da 5 Bloods (2020). Lee also acted in ten of his films.
