Spike Lee's techniques

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are sort of unusual too, and can sometimes go OTT enough to be distracting.

But the fact that you used a Faux Snooze-linked quote for what he said seems to suggest who benefits from his viewpoint, not much different from Hattie McDaniel's vehement defense of her ugly stereotypical work in another racist "classic" also hailed as "one of the greatest films of all time" - "Gone with the Wind", a film, like the same director's "The Wizard of Oz", was unique at the time due to use of color film -

You also have Disney's racist trope "Song of the South", highlighting another heralded Academy Award-winning film that came out not long after, perfecting the long-form use of a "live action/animation" mix in a film -

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One could also add a film that came out a little over a decade after "Birth of a Nation" - "The Jazz Singer", bringing about what was probably the most significant breakthrough in film-making as the "first talkie" -

But with all I have shown, do you see a consistent and troubling pattern there?

Lee has been been roundly criticized throughout his career regarding the problems he has with his sexist views of black women (including in "She's Gotta Have it" and "School Daze" ), and his uneven attempts to rectify that.

These types of films have always been "rewarded" by the white supremacist power structure to reinforce what is posted about over and over and over here on DU - "institutional racism".

It took the graphic real-life snuff video of a man who had the life choked out of him by a gleeful cop smashing his knee in the man's neck until he was dead, to FINALLY begin to break over a century's worth of damage to a whole community - in film, in the "memorials" that litter the nation with the celebration of traitors, and in "every day products" that many people brought into their homes to covet and enjoy while subconsciously embracing the fucking supremacist stereotyping that these products were drenched in.