This is why he is more than a Filmmaker. Spike is an Icon.

"Reverse migration". 
Excellent point. This atrocity occurs nation wide. It's happening in my
town. Basically being told, "to heck with you & the pursuance of the american dream"!

Spike has a pointe two. It's not cool to have the newcomers calling the pope on your pop for playing acoustic bass.  Nice restaurants and shi shi cocktail bars and nice looking people does not counter the negatives of gentrification. Every American knows that The NYC metro area is unattainable for even educated well employed people. This same phenom is happening to those that grew up in places like Reno, Denver, mountain towns in the west and farms in the mid-west. No one living in a beach town in Cal. Has the time or. Means

Communities and realtors and politicians could care less about community or history, they are all high dollar call girls willing to play with the highest bidder.

"You can’t just come in when people have a culture that’s been laid down for generations and you come in and now shit gotta change because you’re here? Get the fuck outta here. Can’t do that!"  (Spike Lee)

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