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Filmmaker Spike Lee extolled the virtues of a college education during a speech to the Black Expo [in South Carolina].
Lee also told black parents in the audience to steer their children toward real role models and away from rappers. He said violent images from rappers such as 50 Cent are damaging the next generation.
"Forget about the beat," he said Saturday. "Let's talk about the lyrical content."
Lee, a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, said education was the path to success. He lamented that young black scholars sometimes are ridiculed as fakes who are "acting white."
"But if you're on a corner, holding a 40, smoking a blunt and holding your privates, then you're real."
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THIS MESSAGE GOES OUT TO SPIKE LEE. I HAVE A NEWPHEW WHO LOOKS UP TO SPIKE LEE AND HIS WORKS AND WHAT HE STANDS FOR. DANTE HARDING HAS HIS FIRST MOVIE HE WROTE, AND DIRECTED HIMSELF THAT WILL OPEN AT THE BELCOURT THEATERS IN TENNESSEE IN APRIL 2004. SPIKE LEE HAS BEEN HIS MENTOR AND THAT HE IS THE REASON WHY DANTE IS WHERE HE IS TODAY. HE IS SERIOUS ABOUT HIS CAREER AND HIS LIFE.
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AS A YOUNG BLACK MAN OF AGE 21, I AM VERY PROUD OF HIS MOVIE AND HIS DREAM DUE TO SPIKE LEE.
Posted by: VIDA L ELSAYED | March 27, 2004 7:06 PM