Spike Lee implores US to regain its humanity during Oscars speech
The film-maker gave a heartfelt and political speech after winning the best screenplay Academy Award for BlacKkKlansman
“Before the world tonight, I give praise to my ancestors who built our country,
along with the genocide of our native people,” Lee said. “When we regain our
humanity it will be a powerful moment … The 2020 election is around the corner
– let’s all mobilise and be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice
between love versus hate.”
“For 400 years, our ancestors were stolen
from Africa and brought to Virginia and enslaved. They worked the land from
‘can’t see’ in the morning to ‘can’t see’ at night. My grandmother – who lived
100 years young, a college graduate even though her mother was a slave – my
grandmother, who saved 50 years’ of Social Security checks to put me through
college. She called me Spiky-poo …” Lee said that his grandmother had put him
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