Spike Lee

Spike Lee’s films always provoke people to think about the world we live in. The film Bamboozled raised many concerns for me in regards to how Black people are portrayed in the media. Spike Lee made comments that people before us had no choice but to take these types of roles because of the barriers and blatant racism they had to face. He says that artists of today have a choice and that they have no excuses. I feel that this a complex situation for actors today that want to break out of the stereotypes, but are faced with having to play such roles to get a foot in the door. It must be very conflicting for Black artists to take stereotypical roles for the sake of furthering their careers. I am not sure how this huge problem can be remedied, but I am sure that producing such works allows for scholarly discourse to begin figuring out real life solutions.