Uncle Luke Dismantles ‘Django’ Babbling: “Screw Spike, Lee Could Never Pull Off A Movie Like This”

Written By S. Samuel

2 Live Crew's Uncle Luke is the latest celebrity to rally up support for director Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained flick and lash out against fellow moviemaker Spike Lee for slamming its content.

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Rather than respect Lee’s position, Luke blasted Spike for publicly going against Tarantino’s new movie in a blog post.

“Screw Spike Lee. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is a brilliant flick that more accurately depicts the African American experience than any of the 15 movies about black culture Lee’s directed in his lifetime. It’s why the movie took home a Golden Globe award for best screenplay over the weekend and why it was recently nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Since Django Unchained hit the theaters, Lee has been publicly trashing Tarantino. In announcing his personal boycott of the movie, the Do The Right Thing filmmaker tweeted, “American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western,” and “It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.” (Miami New Times)

Luke even goes as far as to compare Lee to one of the film’s characters.

“Lee could never pull off a movie like this. When he’s not being an ass from his court side seats during New York Knicks games, he’s making bull crap films that most African Americans cannot relate to. Spike is upset because Samuel L. Jackson’s character in the movie is just like him: a conniving and scheming Uncle Tom.” (Miami New Times)

Renowned activist/author Dick Gregory has also come to Tarantino’s defense in light of Spike’s stance.

“I’ve seen Django Unchained, I’ve seen that 12 times. Never in the history of Hollywood, have they ever made anything that freed the inside of me. The inside. I’m 80 years-old, I saw cowboy movies, wasn’t no Black folks in cowboy movies. I’m looking at a Western, plus a love story. To those of you all that see it, you’ll never see a love story about a Black man and a Black woman where it wasn’t some foul sex and foul language, huh. And Spike Lee can’t appreciate that. That little thug ain’t even seen the movie, he’s acting like he’s White.” (We All Be TV)

Recently, Chicago rapper Rhymefest chopped it up with SOHH and weighed in on the controversy.

“I think that sometimes you got to know when you’ve won. And I think Spike Lee won but he’s ruining his win. Now he’s putting himself in a position where he’s going to have to win again. Furthermore, make some good a** movies and show “us” how it’s done. I’m going to tell you something. I don’t think black filmmakers can make good movies about slavery. I don’t think it’s possible. I think we’re too close to it. You can [quote me]. A lot of people are going to hate that. Some subjects, as black people, we get so emotional about things that we don’t think about the artistic entertainment value of it as well as the historic accuracy of it.” (SOHH Guest Star)

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Written by S. Samuel

Steven Samuel is the co-founder of SOHH.com.

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