Spike Lee called for people to vote for love, not hate. Trump says that's a racist attack on him.

[DetlefK]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/02/25/spike-lees-oscars-speech-enraged-trump-watch-read-it-here/?utm_term=.f05ac583aca4

The word today is “irony.” The date, the 24th. The month, February, which also happens to be the shortest month of the year, which also happens to be Black History month. The year, 2019. The year, 1619. History. Her story. 1619. 2019. 400 years.

Four hundred years. Our ancestors were stolen from Mother Africa and bought to Jamestown, Virginia, enslaved. Our ancestors worked the land from can’t see in the morning to can’t see at night. My grandmother, Zimmie Shelton Retha, who lived to be 100 years young, who was a Spelman College graduate even though her mother was a slave. My grandmother who saved 50 years of Social Security checks to put her first grandchild — she called me Spikie-poo — she put me through Morehouse College and NYU grad film. NYU!

Before the world tonight, I give praise to our ancestors who have built this country into what it is today along with the genocide of its native people. We all connect with our ancestors. We will have love and wisdom regained, we will regain our humanity. It will be a powerful moment. The 2020 presidential election is around the corner. Let’s all mobilize. Let’s all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let’s do the right thing! You know I had to get that in there.

Link to tweet

Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

[jcgoldie]

1. Lol

Spike Lee: "Racism is bad."
Trump: "Why you singling me out???"

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. That tweet is so moronic...

It’s almost beyond commenting on.

[jrthin]

5. The "tweet is so moronic..." because the tweeter is an f'ing moron.

[Botany]

7. It would be nice if Trump knew how to write

Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

It would be nice if Spike Lee could have read his notes better or better yet not have had to use any notes at all.
Spike attacked me despite that I have done more than almost any other President to help out African Americans
improvements have been made in criminal justice, we now have the lowest unemployment numbers in
history, tax cuts, and in other areas that helped out the black community too.

Sorry I still can't clean up gibberish.

[xxqqqzme]

17. "...Spike attacked me..."

Only if you want it to be an attack. I didn't hear Spike mention you at all. it was HIS history being shared. It was NOT about you. Never is. But your feeble brain only interprets one way. King con fears the silence

FOOL ON THE HILL The Beatles

Day after day, alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is sitting perfectly still
Nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool
But he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round

His head in a cloud
The man with a foolish grin is talking perfectly loud
But nobody wants to hear him
They can see that he's just a fool
But he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round

[True Blue American]

20. Guilty conscience

Trump?

[spanone]

3. Spike Lee never mentioned trump. I think little don is a paranoid racist pos.

[sarge43]

21. Remember, in that rat's nest that subs for his 'mind', everything is about him.

[femmocrat]

4. If the tiny shoe fits....

[eppur_se_muova]

6. There's already an OccupyJuly4th -- should get interesting. :) nt

[babylonsister]

8. "This morning, the US president is

spending his time attacking a movie director who made a movie that ridicules the KKK.
Think about that."

As seen on FB~

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[Joe Nation]

9. Trump correctly assumes that by hate, Lee means him...

Hey, when you're right, you're right Donnie. YOU ARE the candidate of hate.

[rufus dog]

10. Read this carefully and think

"Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all" is saying black people are too stupid to read, let alone being able to memorize. (remember Obama and the teleprompter?)

"doing his racist hit on your President" is saying a black man thinks the can criticize the master. Note use of "your President" and his heavy use of "your President" It is a tip of the hat to his racist supporters. He is their President, not the President of people of color, liberals, etc.

"who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!" is basically mirroring his racists supporters belief, that is, those people think they deserve more than what we determine is acceptable.

[AlleganCarpenter]

12. "Your President"

I didn't see any reference in Mr. Lee's comment about President Obama.

[yuiyoshida]

13. What a Racist

Asshole and a total liar.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Perfect & Concise (nt)

[struggle4progress]

14. An anti-Trump song!

[defacto7]

15. Truth will always be an attack on trump

because he's diametrically opposed to it.

[Metro135]

16. Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes . . .

Be nice if you'd shut the fuck up and die already.

[randr]

18. It is clear he knows which side he is on in the love/hate thing.

[gratuitous]

19. Needy Amin making it all about himself again

What's the difference between God and Trump? God never thinks he's Trump.

[RockRaven]

22. What a strange, noxious mixture of narcissism and consciousness of guilt

which renders "make the moral choice between love versus hate" into a "racist hit"

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

23. What is this "your President" shit he's starting to use?

The phrase has shown up in several of his tweets now. Is he trying to convince himself that he didn't lose the popular vote, or that 10 milion more people voted against him (Clinton: 65.8 million votes; others: 7.8 million votes; total non-Trump votes: 73.6 million) than for him (63.0 million)? Saying that he's "your President" sounds like something a dictator would say. Next thing you know he'll want his portrait painted on walls and a huge statue of himself (gold-plated, of course) erected in the center of the Mall.

[apnu]

24. Notice how Trump is outing himself as a racist?

I see it.

[peggysue2]

25. Nice to know that . . .

the Trumpster clearly self-identifies with the word hate in that statement. Spike Lee never mentioned the man's name, only the value sides from which we're choosing. 2020, right around the corner!

Consciousness of guilt, methinks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. When you throw a rock into a pig pen, the one that squeals is the one you hit.

[Faux pas]

28. It must be hard

when EVERYTHING is about YOU.