When
acclaimed director, actor, producer, Spike Lee broke onto the Hollywood
scene in the 1980s; he truly had to fight the power. Hollywood was not ready for a young, brash, provocative filmmaker like Lee.
He burst on the scene with provocative movies like She’s Gotta Have It, School Daze and Do The Right Thing. These
movies created spirited debates in the Black and White communities
centered on the hot social issues of the day; feminism among Black
women; racism within the Black community; and race relations between
Black and White.
Back
then, you may not always agree with Lee’s movies, but you could count
on him to stimulate heated conversations throughout America.
Lee
has never tried to hide or shy away from his liberal beliefs and his
public support for Democrats and Obama; thus his latest movie, Chi-Raq.
The
movie is a profanity laced, liberally biased, finger pointing diatribe
that blames Republicans and Whites for all the murders taking place in
Chicago.
Of
course, as usual for Lee’s movies, there is the perfunctory swipes and
ridicule of Black Republicans; in this case Ben Carson. This is why it is extremely imperative that Republicans have an active surrogates program. Black Republicans are constantly ridiculed in movies, TV sit-coms, and in pop culture.
I
have constantly expressed to party leaders the necessity of having a
vibrant surrogates program where Black Republicans are seen on TV, heard
on the radio, and interviewed in newspapers.
In
marketing, if you product or message is not seen, heard, or read about
in the media, then you and your product does not exist. Politics, after all is nothing but the art of marketing.
So,
as is common for liberals like Lee, they never miss an opportunity to
blame the murder rate in cities like Baltimore, New York, or Chicago on
the National Rifle Association (NRA); though he never mentions that
these cities are all run by liberal Democrats. He never mentions that each of these cities all have some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country
Spike
couldn’t bring himself to lay the blame where it belongs—at the feet of
liberal policies being propagated by Democratic politicians.
Spike
couldn’t bring himself to blame Obama for the dismal unemployment rate
in the Black community; the lack of job training in cities like Chicago;
or the lack of access to capital for Black owned businesses who are the
job creators.
He
couldn’t bring himself to blame Rahm Emmanuel, the sitting Democratic
mayor of Chicago for having absolutely no answer to the crime wave
taking place in his city. William Hale Thompson was the last Republican mayor of Chicago. He left office in 1931, so you are talking about 84 years ago.
Since
Republicans refuse to create a surrogates program for Black
Republicans, we continue to be caricatured as “sell-outs” to our
community and those who want to run from our Blackness.
Republicans
constantly allow liberals to spew all sorts of lies about them and
allow them to go unchallenged; and as we know, a lie that goes
unchallenged becomes the truth.
Name me the last big city Democratic mayor that made lives of the Black community better. It
wasn’t until Republicans Dick Riordan took over from Democratic Mayor
Tom Bradley in Los Angeles or Giuliani took over from Democratic Mayor
David Dinkins in New York City that Blacks began to flourish.
Why Republicans continue to allow liberals to blame them for the woes of liberalism simply baffles me. The murder rate in Chicago has nothing to do with the NRA; but have everything to do with liberalism.
Liberalism
says that the breakdown of the Black community has to do with the
legacy of slavery; or because of Reagan and Bush; or racism. Of course, none of this is true.
Liberal policies like welfare are to blame for the breakdown of the Black community. Liberal
policies like open borders for illegals are responsible for the high
unemployment rate for Blacks in cities like Chicago.
So, if you are a liberal and like to blame others for the plight of the Black community, then you will love Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq; but I think a better title for the movie would me Chi-rade because the movie is exactly that, a charade.
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