‘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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Spike Lee, 63, recently compared swastikas to the Confederate flagCredit: AP:Associated Press

“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 .”

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 .

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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.”

, slavery ended, and Confederate sympathizers almost ever since have argued the war wasn’t just about slavery.

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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.”

[and] , where there ain’t no Black folks for a minute.”

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Robert E. Lee descendant says Confederate monuments ‘MUST come down if we want peace and equality’

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On Tuesday, Governor Tate Reeves , which has red, white, and blue stripes with the Confederate battle flag in the top left corner.

And last month, associated with the racing company.

The Confederate flag isn’t anywhere close to being gone from the southern US, but 155 years after the Confederacy lost the Civil War, it’s losing its prominence.

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