SonicHawk":1f5khp0b said:
It's a horribly stupid, unforgivable thing to say... but a black man calling a black man an 'Uncle Tom' I wouldn't classify as racism.
Nonsense.
Have you read Uncle Tom's Cabin? That metaphor is the literal epitome of white southern slave owner racism. It is the embodiment of 19th Century racism at its very worst.
Regardless of who wields that label as a weapon, its brutal and obvious intent was to belittle and demean a man based solely on skin color and race. To diminish his life and accomplishments as the result of kissing up to white masters. How is that not racism? It's the absolute worst form of racism.
Regardless of your political bent, Clarence Thomas was being hand picked by the President for the highest judicial office in the US. That is a far greater accomplishment than anything Spike Lee could even imagine for himself. Judge Thomas' name will forever be a part of American Law. He is immortalized by his position, and his words stand as authority above all "masters." Even the President, the highest ranking American, is subject to his findings.
Spike Lee is a joke. His films are boring irrelevant trash, he has contributed nothing of note to American culture and will be forgotten within a single generation. He is the ultimate superficial talking head, seeking publicity and advantage for his skin color while doing no actual good for those he claims to represent. Further, this moron gave out the home address of George Zimmerman, only it turned out to be someone else. Leading to that family receiving death threats and having to move. Spike Lee has done far more harm than good and his civil rights record is a joke.
Further, the fact that white civil rights "supporters" accept the use of racial slurs by blacks against themselves and other minorities is sickening and hypocritical. Most of the harm done in black communities is black on black, the result of idiots attacking those who work hard, succeed and try to elevate their communities. Your opinion isnt just wrong, it actually encourages the worst type of racism faced by black communities today.
Racism is racism. Period.