"Doing the right thing?

"Field, why don't you do something about the comments section on your blog? It's full of nut jobs and racist." Field, I used to read your blog, but your comments section got to be too much."

I get that a lot. And I always tell folks to just read the post and skip the comments. Although honestly, I don't know why they would want to. You can tell a lot about where A-merry-ca is heading by the comments section on blogs like mine.

For instance, tonight I want to blog about Spike Lee going off on Chris Rock, but instead of starting with the article, I will start with the comments section from the article:

"I'd like to know what was the the "controversial twist" that caused some people to walk out? Spike just showed what a big baby he is when Chris Rock cracked a joke at him, he throws a tantrum... I have a title for your next movie, Spike: "Act Like a Man".

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Shawn • 37 minutes agoReport Abuse

Racism cuts both ways, my friend!

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"Who cares what this racist idiot says anyway?

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Garth • 38 minutes agoReport Abuse

"who cares"

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2008champ • 38 minutes agoReport Abuse

"Spike Lee is racist."

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MJ • 37 minutes agoReport Abuse

"spike "who"??????????"

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Powmia • 34 minutes agoReport Abuse

"He is more racist than the people he calls racist"

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duntov • 24 minutes agoReport Abuse

"Seems like an Angry african american that continues to prey on racism for his own gain and agenda. Go away until you can talk like an intelligent human. Stop the hate and move on."

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etha • 11 minutes agoReport Abuse

"A very angry black midget."

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Dawn • Sacramento, California • 23 minutes agoReport Abuse

"I am absolutely astounded by the level of class he displays."

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Eric • 35 minutes agoReport Abuse

"Sorry Spike you have no class despite you thinking that you are the best director out there. Also LOL @ watching a picture of you googly eyed taking a picture of Obama with your 1st generation iPad explains alot."

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Bob • Cleveland, Ohio • 15 minutes agoReport Abuse

"What a punk!"

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John • Los Angeles, California • 14 minutes agoReport Abuse

"Another lousy Knicks' team sent him over the edge. And by the way, dress like a normal person! Be a role model, not a race baiter!"

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Cali-drew • San Diego, California • 35 minutes agoReport Abuse

"Spike Lee is a hundred pound little #$%$ Talks as if he's the only Black man on the planet."

And what is it that got folks so fired up over Spike? Well it seems that Spike went off at Sundance because he had to bankroll his own film. Chris Rock (who white folks just love) asked Spike a question, and was, in the writer's opinion, "joking around." Spike didn't think it was funny, and gave Rock the business.

"... Chris Rock asked a question following the Sundance screening for Lee's new film, "Red Hook Summer."

According to Entertainment Weekly, the film was screened for a large audience, some of whom left after the film took a controversial twist. That didn't seem to faze Lee. However, when Chris Rock asked Lee about financing the film, the director went off on a bit of a tirade.
2012 Sundance Film Festival Portraits

Rock, who appeared to be joking around, said, "You spent your own money ... What would you have done differently if you'd actually gotten studio money? What else would have happened? Would you have blown up some (bleep)?"
Lee, apparently unamused, responded, "We never went to the studios with this film. I bought a camera and said we're gonna do this mother(bleeping) film ourselves. I didn't need a mother(bleeping) studio telling me something about Red Hook! They know nothing about black people! Nothing!" Lee then added, "And they're gonna give me notes about what a 13-year-old black boy and girl do in Red Hook? (Bleep) no!" [Source]

Spike, another movie with Red in the title did alright  at the Box Office this past weekend. It was about black folks, but Mr. Charlie is the one who made it. And he might not know anything about "black people", but he sure knows how to make money.

Anyway, I have to go now, I have to get ready for my favorite sitcom: the republican debates.  

 

You angry black men.

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Oh Lawd! Now Tyler and Spike are having words. Seems Tyler told Mr. Do the Right Thing to "go straight to hell."

"Tyler Perry voiced his frustration with Spike Lee on Tuesday at a Beverly Hills press conference for the West Coast premiere of his new film Madea's Big Happy Family, according to Box Office Magazine.

In a 2009 interview with Black Enterprise's Ed Gordon, Lee alluded to Perry's work on film and television in particular as coonery buffoonery.

"I'm so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee," Perry said during the press conference. "Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, 'this is a coon, this is a buffoon.' I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: 'you vote by what you see,' as if black people don't know what they want to see."

"I am sick of him -- he talked about Whoopi, he talked about Oprah, he talked about me, he talked about Clint Eastwood. Spike needs to shut the hell up!" Perry reportedly said." [Story]

Now now Tyler, Spike is just as frustrated as the rest of us about the choices us black folks tend to make at times. It's not a knock on you. You found a way to plug into what black folks love to see: Laughter and religion. (That has always worked with black folks. Just keep em laughing or going to church and they will be content.) So go ahead and make your paper. Hey, if you don't do it somebody else will.

Speaking of angry black men. I see that O got into a reporter's grill in Texas the other day. Now O, you have to be careful here, you won over A-merry-ca's heart by being a calm and happy Negro; don't go making them think that you are angry like the rest of us. Nothing turns off A-merry-cans more than an angry black man, and nothing brings them more joy than to see a smile on your face.

O, you have to chill. I know that man was from Texas, and the only thing that they hate more than your beige behind in the Lone Star state is....well I can't think of anything right now. You seem to be pretty much it. Anyway, you have to suck it up and play nice. The man was just trying to ruffle your feathers. (No pun intended Obamaholics.) He would have loved for you to get up, rip off the mike, and tell him to go and f&*^ himself.

"See honey, he is just like the rest of them. I told you that it was just a matter of time before his father's side came out..."

So hang in there O, and when you leave office, you can ask Spike to direct the movie about your life, not Tyler.

* Pic from theGrio.com