Spike Lee Wants Us to Respect Our White Allies: 'White People Have Died For Justice'
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Lee never holds his tongue. In fact, instead of addressing your lil’ president by name, he calls him Agent Orange or more affectionately, “Orange Motherfucker,” which is what he called him during our very candid chat.
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TR: I was moved towards the end of the movie where you show protest footage from now, drawing a parallel to Klan activity in the past. There was a moment where I paused because you chose to show a lot of non-black people protesting ...
SL: Here’s the thing, my sister. If you look the civil rights movement, white people died in Mississippi, Alabama, Kent State during the Vietnam protests. White people have died for justice. So it was not a matter of saying, ‘I can’t put Heather Heyer at the end of the film because she’s not black.
First of all, she was out there protesting those motherfuckers. If you look at Charlottesville footage, those were not all black people protesting, those were good white people who we have alliances with. I didn’t tell those people in the film to scream and yell, ‘Black Lives Matter!’ They were doing it on their own. So I have no problem. Right is right and Heather Heyer is a martyr. She gave her life for justice.
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Charlottesville, that was not just black people out there. I had no hesitation at all showing her face the end. She was courageous. It’s not a black and white thing for me. Heather Heyer was on the side of truth, of justice. She was out there trying to say no to the Klan, no to alt-right, no to those motherfucking Neo-Nazis.
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I like Spike Lee. I bought the tickets for Saturday night already. 
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for posting these pictures! 
According to SNOPES and later confirmed by the Sanders' campaign.....
Bernie Sanders Marched with MLK at Selma?
A photograph doesn't show Bernie Sanders marching from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 with Martin Luther King, Jr.
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CLAIM
A photograph shows Bernie Sanders at a 1965 civil rights march with Martin Luther King, Jr. See Example( s )
EXAMPLES
Collected via e-mail, January 2016
Did Bernie Sanders really march from Selma to Montgomery? People seem to think it's him in this photo:
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RATING
False
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ORIGIN
On 20 January 2016, the web site Democratic Underground posted a photograph purportedly showing Bernie Sanders participating in a 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery (Alabama) with Martin Luther King, Jr. The web site identified the man standing “behind Coretta King, just right of Old Glory in the glasses, white ‘t’ shirt, open collar and dark jacket” as the future United States senator and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate:
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The man pictured in the above-displayed photograph does bear a resemblance to a young Bernie Sanders, but that similarity isn’t sufficient by itself to confirm that Sanders took part in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march:
The above-displayed image was taken on 26 March 1965, and a caption to the photograph provided by licenser Corbis Images identifies Martin Luther King, Jr. along with several other prominent political leaders but makes no mention of Bernie Sanders:
Dr. Martin Luther King (C) leads thousands of civil rights demonstrators out on the last leg of their Selma to Montgomery 50-mile hike. Others identifiable in the front row include John Davis (2nd from L) of SNCC, King’s aide Reverend Ralph Abernathy (3rd from L), Dr. Ralph Bunche (5th from L), Mrs. King (next to her husband) and Reverend Hosea Williams (carrying little girl, R).
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This photograph has been widely available for decades, but it wasn’t until January 2016 that Bernie Sanders’ name became associated with a face in the crowd. Although Sanders has stated that he did participate in the landmark “March on Washington” civil rights event of August 1963 (where Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech), we haven’t found any record of Sanders’ claiming that he was also present at any other civil rights march involving Martin Luther King, Jr:
On the national holiday named for the civil rights leader, Sen. Bernie Sanders called the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., “one of the great leaders in American history.” Sanders, then a college student, was in the crowd on The Mall in Washington when King delivered his “I have a dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. “We must never forget his heroic efforts to end segregation and racial injustice. It is also important, however, to remember that he fought for a society in which all people had good jobs at good wages and that quality education and health care were available to all. At a time when we have an almost record number of Americans living in poverty, obscene levels of income and wealth inequality and millions working longer hours for lower pay, we still have much to learn from Dr. King’s extraordinary life.”
As Mother Jones noted, Sander’s active participation in the Civil Rights movement was “brief and localized” and effectively ended in 1963:
Sanders’ involvement was brief and localized, his sacrifices limited to one arrest for protesting and a bad GPA from neglecting his studies. But Sanders was, in his own right, an active participant in the movement during his three years at the University of Chicago.
Although Sanders did attend the 1963 March on Washington, at which Lewis spoke, most of his work was in and around Hyde Park, where he became involved with the campus chapter of CORE [Congress of Racial Equality] shortly after transferring......
For complete article: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sanders-mlk-selma-march/
Spike’s a great human. Deeply loyal too, as any Knick fan will tell you.
allies. It's the hateful subculture I do not respect. Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman, Viola Luizzo, Heather Heyer to name just a few of many KIA, and all the WIA's I put my hand out too. I have bled with them, literally. Spiro Agnew got me hit in the head by a nightstick-truncheon. It hurt. I respect anyone on the line... All allies and comrades to me. No problem. It's the snakes in the grass that makes me careful.....they'll be in D.C. this weekend.
