‘F**K THAT FLAG’
Spike Lee compares Confederate flag to swastika and says monuments need to ‘come the f**k down’
DIRECTOR Spike Lee has compared the Confederate flag to swastikas, and said such monuments need to be taken down.
Lee, 63, said during a recent interview on Luminary’s Black List podcast: “F**k that flag.”
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“That flag, to me, [makes me feel] the same way my Jewish brothers and sisters feel about the swastika,” the BlacKkKlansman director said, .
“And them motherf**king Confederate statues .”
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Across the US, have been torn down or lawmakers have been working to remove them following the death of on May 25.
Floyd was a 46-year-old for nine minutes while .
A national debate ensued over racial inequality and after his death.
The Confederacy was founded in Montgomery in 1861 with a Constitution that prohibited laws “denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves.”
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, slavery ended, and Confederate sympathizers almost ever since have argued the war wasn’t just about slavery.
Many instead have said the “lost cause” version centered around state’s rights, Southern nobility, and honor.
The topic with Lee came up as they discussed the many movies he’s worked on during his career.
He brought up the while they discussed his 1989 film, Do the Right thing, that “climaxes with a riot following the murder of a Black man by a police officer.”
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Lee said on the show: “It’s like the film was made yesterday.”
“So, there are two ways to think about it. That it’s still unique. It’s still new. And then also, Black people are still being murdered [and] dying.”
“If you’ve seen Do the Right Thing, how can you not automatically think of Eric Garner, and then king George Floyd?”
“It’s never been about how [Black people] respond to it. It’s been about how our white sisters and brothers respond to it,” the director said.
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“And have you been watching CNN like I have? People are marching all over God’s Earth chanting, yelling, [and] screaming ‘Black lives matter,’ and they’re not Black… That’s the big difference.”
Lee said now, “You see a young generation of my white brothers and sisters [and] they are out there in full effect. I mean, forget about the rest of the world for a second."
"White folks are marching in [and] , where there ain’t no Black folks for a minute.”
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