Why Spike Lee Is Evil...

[Fart Carnage]

Mike J,
I agree with you on two points: first, House Party rules; second, I'll give 
Spike (Mr. Lee) credit for She's Gotta Have It, his only film that isn't 
heavy-handed and overly melodramatic (the soundtrack is also quite good). 
However, I've always thought that 'Do The Right Thing' was one of the most 
overrated films of the 80s. I think he's guilty of recycling the peaceful 
reform / violent resistance binary of MLK and X, as if either of these 
options could be transferred to 1980s America and still result in some sort 
of tangible results; in other words, I'm accusing Spike of being utterly 
ahistorical and of using comfortable sound-byte ideologies that are either 
outdated or, at the very least, need to be fine-tuned as conditions change. 
His politics, in short, are horribly convoluted; this is why he can make an 
utterly horrible film decrying the NBA--He Got Game--yet still act as a 
spokesman for Nike, heap praises on that idiot Michael Jordan, and make sure 
that the cameras catch his image at every Knick game. And don't get me 
started on Public Enemy, the feature group on Do The Right Thing's 
soundtrack. They've also built their reputation by spewing out black power 
slogans from the 60s while offering nothing new to the discourse. If this is 
all America has to say about race, then I'm afraid America's doomed. W.E.B. 
DuBois could produce more profound insight vis. a bout of flatulence than 
Spike Lee and John Singleton combined.
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