Cannes, (EFE).- Spike Lee showed up to the Cannes jury press conference reluctant to speak much but delivered biting statements as he denounced that Black people are still “being hunted down like animals” and the lack of morals of certain world leaders he called “gangsters.”
Lee, who will preside over the jury for the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, first participated in the prestigious cinema celebration with the nomination of Do the Right Thing, a feature film that addressed racial tensions and violence in Brooklyn.
Thirty-two years later, he laments that the situation of the Black community has barely changed.
“You would think and hope that 30-something m*****f***** years later that Black people would have stopped being hunted down like animals,” he said, in reference to the murders of Eric Garner and George Floyd.
He also accused world leaders of running the world like “gangsters,” mentioning former US President Donald Trump, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
“That’s the world we live in, and we have to speak out against gangsters like that,” he said, in response to a question concerning attacks against the LGBTI community in Georgia.
Lee was quick to announce he would not take any more questions, redirecting journalists to the rest of the jury panel, composed of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Jessica Hausner, Mati Diop, Myléne Farmer, Kleber Mendonça, Tahar Rahim and Song Kang-Ho.
Gyllenhaal veered the discussion back to cinema, pointing out that movies and politics interweave constantly, sometimes in very emotional ways, which allows the seventh art to reach the minds and hearts of its audience.
Tahar Rahim, one of the lead actors in Netflix’s The Serpent, dismissed controversy fueled by the French press over his wife Leila Bekhti featuring in one of the Palme d’Or contenders, The Restless.
“She’s an actress like any other. I don’t see the problem,” he said.
The members of the jury recalled some of their fondest memories at Cannes, which is back after the Covid-19 pandemic prevented a 2020 edition.
“The fact that we’re all here together is a miracle, so that makes it even more of an honour to be here,” said Song Kang-ho, who starred in the 2019 Golden Palm winner Parasite.
Lee remembered flying to New York and back during the festival in the 90s only to support the NY Nicks in NBA finals – which they lost – while Mendonça was nostalgic of the many years he attended as a journalist and film critic, before he ever appeared as a filmmaker.
Lee will be the first ever Black chair of a Cannes jury, which will be the fourth female-majority board in the festival’s history. EFE
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There are things that I have to restrain myself from saying—there are thoughts that I have to restrain myself from expressing. I am certainly unaware of any hunting parties out to capture and/or kill Blacks. But Spike, more Blacks are killed by other Blacks than by Whites—its a fact. Your appetite for hate overwhelms your ability to reason and see the real problem. The more of this nonsense that you people put out there, the greater the odds that some day, it may become a reality. If you are going to keep talking division and hatred, that is going to be the end result of what you get.
“You would think and hope that 30-something m*****f***** years later that Black people would have stopped being hunted down like animals,” he said, in reference to the murders of Eric Garner and George Floyd.” Wow—two examples (sort ot)—and so eloquently expressed. You seem to have eluded the gangsters, Spike—you and Oprah, Michelle & Barack, Robert Johnson—and countless others. Take off your cool shades and look at the picture again.
You are correct that it is getting harder to contain what I really want to say. The perfect example of a black acting like an animal is the previous story about “Calvin Gonnigan shot 45-year-old Janina Ford in the face, killing her as she tried to help another…”. Mr. Lee, is this not an example of an animal that should be put down?
If i had my way, EVERY ONE OF THESE gang scumbags, would be put down, like the RABID ANIMALS THEY continually act like.
The DOW should create a year ’round open season on the ones who murdered Secoriea Turner, Natalia Wallace, Mekhi James, Makelia Osorno, Jace Young, Elayna Saidee, Davon McNeal, Davell Gardner, LeGend Taliferro, Serenity Broughton, to name just a few, but Chicago Mayor, Lorie Lightbrain isn’t about to do anything about these savages.
“3 Chicago ‘Anti-Violence Activists’ Facing Felony Gun Charges While Out On Bail for Other Felony Gun Charges “
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 6% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~53% of all the murders and ~55% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~8,600 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
Where is the outrage from “Black Lives Matter” and prominent members of the African-American community? Where are the words of condemnation and sorrow from “Black Lives Matter”, Obama, Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson over the fact that members of their own race are summarily executing each other?
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White police officer was involved?
Yusra Khogali, leader of the “anti-racist” Black Lives Matter movement,
does not hide her hatred of white people in her comments on social media.
Yusra Khogali wrote on Facebook that “Whiteness is not humxness” and that “white skin is sub-humxn,”
I’d love to ask spike
“AND WHO THE HELL IS DOING all of this BLACK ON BLACK KILLING!”
Certainly not white supremacists!
You only hunt down people like animals,,,,when and if they act like animals. Blacks have no monopoly on acting like animals but do seem to have the majority. The first basic Civil Right is to act Civilly. Deranged rebellious people of any color who act like a rabid Dog need to be put out of their misery before the rabies spreads to others, and whole communities get infected. Frankly the black organized gangsters in Chicago these days, make White guys like Al Capone look like choir boys and have killed way more people than the Italians or Chicagoans of past European dissent.
Yeah, black people are “being hunted down like animals”……
By other blacks.
Hundreds, thousands can kill each other, but insert 1 white person into the equation and the country’s in flames.
Such b.s.
spot on bill but they are using this as an oppertunity to steal ,loot and destroy public and private property with no consequnces.
AND SHOW exactly why many folks, DO CONSIDER them rabid animals..
Who cares what this so called “entertainer” has to say. He is paid to entertain, period. And like all other “entertainers” when they cease to entertain they become irrevelvant…..
I used to think his films were ok. NOW I WOULDN’T even make my worst ENEMY SIT down and be forced to watch them.
You are right, Spike…
BUT, the people doing the “hunting” are OTHER BLACK PEOPLE!
The delusional, dishonest, and divisive left’s ideological war against White Americans is being aggressively executed by the pathetic Biden-Harris Administration, its mindless propagandists in the mainstream media, Black Lives Matter activists, and hate-mongering Hollywood celebrities like Spike Lee. Unless our Democrat rulers and other high-profile leftists start toning down the hateful rhetoric they are spewing against Whites, the cold civil war that they are conducting against our White citizens could heat up and quickly spiral out of control.
In a news cycle where we hear of an astronomical number of people shot, and a large number killed, during the July 4th weekend in Chicago and the assassination of the President of Haiti Mr. Lee is right “blacks are being hunted down.” The problem is they are being hunted down and murdered by their own people.
Which when you see JUST HOW MUCH violence has gone on in Africa over the past 6+ decades, is NOTHING NEW.
Well, Mookie, way I see it is blacks who go around terrorizing, menacing, destroying property & killing people like the low life characters Mookie, Buggin Out & Radio Raheem in your movie should expect to be treated with same violence they provoke.
Black people as a race are not being publicly berated, forced or pressured by govt to be respectful & polite or to tolerate violence & crimes committed against them by white or Asian people.
But that’s exactly what govt is dictating how white & Asian people now must act & tolerate from black people.
So, Spike, you & rest of the smug sanctimonious black million / billionaires can quit your m**f** whining & being outraged that no one loves, respects or wants to tolerate the black, profanity spewing, violent bullies, punks & career criminals who are being martyred for getting themselves hurt / killed while violently resisting arrest & who are being taught to think it is white people fault that they continue to be illiterate, immoral, criminal & poor despite govt programs & billions $ spent for decades trying to get them to be educated, responsible, self sufficient & law abiding citizens.
It is the Spike Lee type attitude that creates racial tensions & anti white racism.
WOW! What a cliché, a black clown dressed like a pimp backed up by a bunch of milky white, virtue signaling, limousine liberal, sanctimonious, brainless female Lefitst celebutard hypocrites.