Spike Lee

Spike Lee is a famous film director whom I remember showing how Brooklyn was in the movie Do the Right Thing. Spike Lee himself grew up in Brooklyn and his father still lives there. He has strong feelings against gentrification, and would be considered a very good first person source on a paper discussing said topic. While at the Pratt Institute someone asked him about the good that gentrification brings, and he proceeded to give a 7 min speech on the topic. Due to the fact that he is very anti-gentrification I thought he would be of good use when writing the cons section of my paper. I tried to also search for people that were against what Spike Lee specifically to keep this report unbiased. What I found was that Spike Lee was not so much anti-gentrification as he was anti-white people moving into these locations. The impressions he gives is that if minorities were to come and fix up these neighborhood and raise property values he would be more on board. This was too biased for my paper and not justified enough. For my paper I tried to keep race out of the picture because I know that minorities are capable of being a part of gentrification.

Works Cited

watchthis. “Spike Lee Goes On Epic Rant Against Gentrification In NYC Audio.” Video
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