Filmmaker and civil rights advocate Spike Lee joined SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show” on Friday to denounce implications made earlier this week from President Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner that Black Americans lack a drive to succeed.
“I am so tired of white folks telling us what we need to do,” Lee said on the radio program. “How could this guy, how could this punk-ass say what Black folks need to do? You know, it’s like there wasn’t 400 years of slavery, systematic racism, go on, list, list list list […] this guy to say to Black people, that we don’t wanna succeed? Hey, let him come to Brooklyn talking that. Let him come to Harlem talking that mess.”
Kushner faced instant backlash on Monday after an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” where he defended his father-in-law’s relationship to Black voters. “I think we...
“I am so tired of white folks telling us what we need to do,” Lee said on the radio program. “How could this guy, how could this punk-ass say what Black folks need to do? You know, it’s like there wasn’t 400 years of slavery, systematic racism, go on, list, list list list […] this guy to say to Black people, that we don’t wanna succeed? Hey, let him come to Brooklyn talking that. Let him come to Harlem talking that mess.”
Kushner faced instant backlash on Monday after an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” where he defended his father-in-law’s relationship to Black voters. “I think we...
- 10/31/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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