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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Spike Lee just premiered the fifth film in his “continuing chronicles of Brooklyn, N.Y.,” at the Sundance Film Festival, but the filmmaker is still frustrated at the lack of diversity in the entertainment industry.

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Lee said Monday that in the “upper echelons of television and studios, it’s 1950. It’s Eisenhower.”

He says there is much work to be done before the film industry reflects the diversity of the United States. He noted that the U.S. Census shows that “white Americans will be a minority by 2045, maybe sooner,” and said it makes “good business sense” for companies, including entertainment companies, to diversify their workforce.

Lee unveiled “Red Hook Summer” on Sunday to a full house that included such guests as Chris Rock, Alfre Woodard and Cuba Gooding Jr.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    Spike Lee Speaks Out On Lack Of Diversity In Film
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    When will these negroes stop talking about diversity and start doing for SELF!

    Negroids are the ONLY cult(ure) running around here, still trying to make their caucasoid enemies LOVE THEM!

    ONCE THE MIND IS CONTROLLED, EVERYTHANG ELSE BECOMES EASY!!!!

    DIVIDE (from your enemies) and UNITE with your OWN!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KD3U2KZS3WVFGH6W5ZPOTDRAE TimH

    Fatherless welfare negro, please.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FM6424AAPB6JJHQUMA4LJAV4XM Nadia Hutak

    broke ass NEGROID still living in ur mamas basement. you are nothing more than an internet coward. get a life and job. you are even to scared to post ur ugly pic. i laugh at you b***h.

  • Anonymous

    Once again Spike is begging white folks for jobs when he needs to be begging black millionaires to establish their own production company and studio and then you can hire all the minorties you want. When are we going to understand we are following a broken formula that doesn’t work? Don’t understand why we feel the need to force ourselves on other people as if we aren’t smart enought to do it ourselves. Wakeup.

  • Anonymous

    No one says a country that is 100% black needs more diversity.

    No one says a country that is 100% Arab needs more diversity.

    No one says a country that is 100% Asian needs more diversity.

    They are already 100% diverse.

    ALL white countries and ONLY white countries always need to be more diverse. White countries only stop needing to be more diverse when there are no more white people left.

    Diversity is a codeword for white genocide.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JI3QN2SAWGME3CUQSVQ43FXZIU Eric

    SPIKE IS RIGHT.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    Come back. Spike we NEED you so that the MEDIA stop FOCUSINZG on Tyler Perry and HIS vision of US…….

  • Anonymous

    Spike Lee has made some very good films over the years…..but his constant complaints of the lack of diversity in films/tv is starting to sound more like “whining” and as if the whitefolks owe him something. Too whom much is given, much is required……..more is expected of you Spike than the same ole “angry black man” syndrome……jmo

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CobaltBlu/ CobaltBlu

    With all these damn rappers who are multimillionaires, and have their own so called production companies, why does he need to beg them to do the right thing?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CobaltBlu/ CobaltBlu

    Thing is Elmo, america is not 100% white.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you Spike Lee. He hit out the park again with the truth.

  • Anonymous

    Thing is Elmo, america is not 100% white.

    And it NEVER was and NEVER will be all White. They can’t take of themselves any damn way. History tells us that, yet some call Black folks lazy. smh.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tacarah/ Tacarah

    First of all, I probably would agree with Spike Lee, if he didn’t have his own agenda..Second, at what point will people stop talking about what is needed within a certain industry, when they are not PREPARED to enter into that industry. Saying it does not make it so…..What IF the industry was ready to open itself up…would we as black people be READY and up to the task??!!

    I think people need to research the HISTORY of Hollywood and understand WHY things are the way they are. In fact, some people need a LESSON in AMERICAN and BLACK History…cause many are clueless.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tacarah/ Tacarah

    I agree with one point of yours…However, that won’t happen because too many are so self-absorbed that unity is not in their vocabulary. Black people need economic change and that won’t happen just opening up a barber shop or beauty salon. Lastly, how about getting educationed?!!…An educated man (or woman) is a free one.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tacarah/ Tacarah

    Because owning (or sponsoring) a production is not the same as being involved in HIGH FINANCE. That is what it takes to be involved in Hollywood..The ability to negotiate, to fiance, to conduct business. Most film makers allow their money to work for them. There is a method and most do not even know about it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jaedot/ Jaedot

    I don’t know what y’all are talkin about, but I thought the main reason why Spike even started doing films is to gear towards the black coomunity, his and our’s communtiy? I think maybe y’all misunderstand what he’s saying here. I don’t think he’s begging, seems like he wants more black films to be made and ACTUALLY put on tv and not only found only on blu-ray / dvd or something.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jaedot/ Jaedot

    TimH yo it was your daddy’s forefathers left his ass that’s why he your ass cos we all know that white ppl were the first ppl to abandon you bastards. No wonder you so mad

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jaedot/ Jaedot

    Exactly!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Roiyar/ Roiyar

    He is right..there is also too much rehashing of old been there done that formula movies when there are so many great untold stories to be told…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Cool_Gee_Rap/ Cool_Gee_Rap

    F@ck off!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tewdrowos/ tewdrowos

    SPIKE HAS ALWAYS SHOWED DIVERSITY IN HIS FILMS…

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