Tuesday,
June 24, 2008
Spike Lee's Hypocrisy, and his Anti Italian
Negative Stereotyping Ridiculed by Dr. Dona De Sanctis,
The
ANNOTICO Report
Dr.
Dona De Sanctis, former Deputy Executive
Director of Sons of Italy, and now Editor in Chief of "Italian
RE: Massacre at SantAnna di Stazzema OR Miracle
at SantAnna di Stazzema ???
Did
Spike Lee cross WAY over the line when he
IGNORED the
Massacre of 560 REAL Italians, and DRAMATIZED the Heroism of four FICTIONAL
Black American GIs at SantAnna
di Stazzema
???
Would
Spike Lee criticize me for making a Film about the REAL Black Soldiers who
fought on the side of the SOUTH in the Civil War ????
In Fact Black Soldiers
fought in the Army of the Confederacy TWO YEARS before Blacks were allowed to
serve in the Union Army!!!! And contrary to the
To the
Editor:
I
had to laugh when I read last week in The Reliable Source that Spike Lee was
feuding with Clint Eastwood for not including a black Marine raising the flag
at
Apparently, playing fast and loose with the facts is part of
Lees approach to movie-making. Witness his latest opus, "Miracle at St. Anna " a $45
million movie, based on a WW II atrocity in the Italian
Lees version, however, focuses on four fictitious African-American GIs, trapped in the village. Former Italian partisans charge the movie is a false...reconstruction of events that ignores the real story. Not surprisingly, Lee dismisses the criticism since he is no friend of things Italian. Three of his movies portray fictitious Italian American characters as uneducated and bigots: Do the Right Thing,(1989), Jungle Fever,(1991), and Summer of Sam,(1999).
Lees
attacks on Italian Americans have been largely ignored by the mediaas was the
Rev. Jeremiah Wrights remarks last December. According to him, the
Italians looked down their garlic noses at Christ, and the
Crucifixion was a public lynching Italian style, executed in apartheid
Dona De Sanctis,
PHD
Editor-in-Chief
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