Lee said that gentrification is shown by more than just a heavier police presence on the streets but also by the dismissal of cultural customs. Then comes the mother*****’ Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here. You just can’t come and bogart. There were brothers playing mother*****’ African drums in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can’t do it anymore because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud. He boasted that his critically-acclaimed film Do The Right Thing, which was released in 1989, predicted the gentrification debate like a crystal ball, citing a scene where a white man in Harlem is berated by his black neighbor after the man accidentally scuffs up his new Air Jordan sneakers. Lee told a story about how a party in Fort Greene park was proposed in honor of Michael Jackson when the singer died but the plan got nixed after residents complained that there would be too much garbage. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568548/Spike-Lee-mouths-rant-gentrification-saying-black-culture-erased-new-white-inhabitants-like-motherf-Christopher-Columbus-syndrome.html https://youtube/watch?v=jlmi9Oq7oNc
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