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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Spike Lee on Gentrification [Watch (HLS stream): Spike Lee on Gentrification](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/RFamnNg6.m3u8) (2:04)  _Published 2014-02-28. Spike Lee explains his profanity laced rant at the Pratt Institute_ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:16 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Joy-Ann Reid Interviews Spike Lee](/video/DVLJRpSv/) ### Joy-Ann Reid Interviews Spike Lee [Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith Refuse To Attend #OscarsSoWhite](/video/gzurYtS1/) ### Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith Refuse To Attend #OscarsSoWhite [Spike Lee: the Making of "Red Hook Summer"](/video/RJZGBPpV/) ### Spike Lee: the Making of "Red Hook Summer" --- ## Transcript I'd like to say first of all what I-- last night I spoke at [ unk ] Institute. I was invited to speak there for Black history month and people have a very short memory. There's a thing called white flight worth the decay of urban cities. White Americans left these cities; they flew away from Texas, crying whatever, and everywhere. Anyway what is suburbia, they follow them and they say while we're driving, while we're spending 3 hours-- 3 hours a day all along on the express way. Let's move back into these cities, so for me it's about, people get displaced. I think anybody's entitled to live where they want. My problem is that when you move into a neighborhood have some respect for the history, for the culture, and I'm gonna-- I'm gonna explain that were bogart if you don't know, bogart [ unk ] bogart admit it, you call me in and just taking over, you can't do that. This are-- this are sport, calms the sport black neighborhood. History, [ unk ], [ unk ], just calm and be humble. Don't call me saying we're here now and this is the way it has to be 'cause that's crazy. We bought our house, we bought our [ unk ] for forty thousand dollars in 1968. My father is a great jazz musician. No one has ever complained about my father playing music. 'Till last year one of new neighbors they call the cops on them. We brought our house in 1968. Now they're calling the cops. The new neighbors are calling the cops. We've been there way before they were. You have to be a millionaire to live in New York City. New York City is not gonna be the great city that is because the hours aren't gonna be there. You can't afford to send your children to private school. 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