Spike Lee explains why he shows Black and Puerto Rican unity in his films

[How Sway?]

I Cant blame him. Rosie Perez was fukkin fire back in younger days (and still is to this day!! To this day!!)

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

If you are not from nyc you wouldn’t understand. At ALL.

It was blacks and PR. PR didn’t create Hiphop but they took part in enjoying it.

Getting PR p*ssy was a rite of passage every black male went thru.

 

[morris]

one of my favorite directors.

yea, before they moved to FL BX was full of Ricans like that...and all boroughs

 

[Piff Perkins]

All that Tariq bullshyt got a lot of you guys sounding fukking crazy. Spike always depicts NY like it looked when he was growing up. A bunch of black and brown (Ricans and Dominicans) kids growing up together. If that bothers you....go play in traffic lol.

 

[NYC Rebel]

All that Tariq bullshyt got a lot of you guys sounding fukking crazy. Spike always depicts NY like it looked when he was growing up. A bunch of black and brown (Ricans and Dominicans) kids growing up together. If that bothers you....go play in traffic lol.

Dominicans never had the type of relationship Ricans had to NYC blacks.

 

[kingofnyc]

Obsessed with PR woman
The opening scene with Rosie Perez dancing is so cringeworthy

What

@kingofnyc get in here and tell em about our Rican pawgs/bawgs

breh , ain’t nothing white about them

 

[kingofnyc]

Wonder how PR feel about Haitians and Jamaicans.

they actually love them because this is what you outsiders don’t understand
Ricans , Dominican and Cubans are not only Spanish they’re Caribbean and a good portion of them identify as Caribbean before Spanish

 

[chiefdogg]

If you ain’t from the north east you won’t understand it

I'm not and I'm going to ask a genuinely question, are you Black American I ask because there's a lot of West Indies in NY. Saying that if you're Black American, you and your fellow Black Americans were cool with Hispanics saying Negra?

 

[bigde09]

they actually love them because this is what you outsiders don’t understand
Ricans , Dominican and Cubans are not only Spanish they’re Caribbean and a good portion of them identify as Caribbean before Spanish

This is facts. like I said if you aint from the Tri-state area you aint gonna understand it.

 

[Roid Jones]

Obsessed with PR woman
The opening scene with Rosie Perez dancing is so cringeworthy

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

hell yeh dont let the coli fool you ask harlem puerto ricans and blacks are an institution.

maybe not in the south where some of you motherfukkers cant read, but in civilized parts of the country..

shout out to my uncle charlie white from Rutherford.

those two groups were marginalized and came up together literally all up the east coast

fukk you and EVERY coli mutt fakkit that thumbs up this post.
Die slow you musty ass ged having ass taco cracka ass p*ssy ass clown.

 

[Turtle]

fukk you and EVERY coli mutt fakkit that thumbs up this post.
Die slow you musty ass ged having ass taco cracka ass p*ssy ass clown.

See yall always stay mad too, the level of estrogen below the mason dixon is crazy…

 

[Ol’Otis]

Look at you hoe-motional

 

[SNYC]

Spike and his BS. again...

As an older Black man who grew up around Latinos, shyt was hit or miss. It wasn't ALL love like it's being depicted in this thread. Same with West Indians, same with any other ethnic group in NYC.

These threads have people sounding brainwashed

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

So he builds demographics of his movies based on the groups expected to be in the setting in question? Oddball discussion.

True.

If he was doing a story about brehs in Jackson, Mississippi....it would be odd to include a bunch of Ricans.....but doesn't seem that strange if the story is in NYC.

I mean he directed Malcolm X and I didn't see nann Latino in that movie, so obviously there's logic to his casting.

but he do love him some Latinas and light skint sistas.

The type of nikka that clowns a breh for pawging but then chases every color but pawgs and dark skinned sistas