"There were many African-Americans who survived that war and who were upset at Clint.... That was his version: the negro soldier did not exist. I have a different version.

"It's not like [Eastwood] could say he didn't know. It was a conscious decision not to have any black people."

Speaking about black troops on Iwo Jima, Eastwood said, "But they didn't raise the flag. The story [was] ... the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn't do that. If I put an African-American actor in there, people'd go, ‘This guy's lost his mind.' I mean, it's not accurate. ... When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like Bird, I use 90% black people.

"A guy like [Lee] should shut his face."

"What are you going to do, you gonna tell a f***ing story about that?" Eastwood ranted. "Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I'm not in that game. I'm playing it the way I read it historically, and that's the way it is."

"First of all, the man is not my father and we're not on a plantation either," (Lee) told ABCNEWS.com. "He's a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn't personally attack him. And a comment like 'a guy like that should shut his face' -- come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there."

• Spike, not everybody who tells you to shut your face is trying to put you on the plantation. Clint didn't say "Shut up, boy" or anything like that. Quit looking for racism in your bellybutton, you f***ing imbecile.



• And what do you mean "on the plantation?" Unless you're 170 years old or so, you've never been on a plantation. What the hell do YOU know about plantations? Quit co-opting the experiences of people who've been dead for decades and decades. No matter how hard you might have had it, you've never had it as hard as someone who was forced into slavery. You f***ing imbecile.



• You're damn right Clint came off like an angry old man. He's 78, so, yep, he's an old man. And he was angry because a f***ing imbecile named Spike Lee criticized him without having any understanding of the issues at hand.



• Spike you've made two ... exactly two ... movies that qualify as great. Eastwood has made more genuinely great films than I can begin to count. So once you actually shut your face you should open your ears and your mind and try to learn something from Eastwood. There are too many crap movies like Inside Man, She Hate Me and Girl 6 on your resume for you to be critiquing Eastwood. You. F***ing. Imbecile.

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