Spike Lee on ChiRaq & Lysistrata (Dec. 15, 2015) | Charlie Rose

Director Spike Lee​ explains how 'ChiRaq,' set in Chicago's violent South Side, was inspired by Aristophanes' play 'Lysistrata,' in which all the women of Greece go on a sex strike until the men agree to end the Peloponnesian War.

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“Most shootings in black Chicago neighborhoods are no longer a result of epic clashes between street battalions.” Instead, they are usually the result of interpersonal disputes, aided by young people cliquing up for protection. And because he mistakes the nature of the violence, there is no examination in Lee’s Chi-raq of the role displacement caused by the demolition of public-housing projects and the closure of public schools has played in keeping the violence going. What, then, would happen in that hypermasculine climate to black women who embark on a sex strike in an attempt to end that violence?
The same thing that happens to them now, with no sex strike in effect. Rape, sexual assault, and beatings are all results of the hypermasculine culture Lee is critiquing. But in Chi-raq he sees only the strength of the black women involved-mostly the strength of their sexuality-not their vulnerability. It’s exactly that kind of thinking that has led to silence around violence against black women, like that perpetrated by former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who was recently convicted of sexually assaulting 13 black women. Whether it comes from the state or exists inside their homes, black women have been subjected to forms of violence and only had other black women to come to their aid.
I like the artistic viewpoint of the movie but this is a major critic of the film.

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"Institutionalized wifebeating", some people called it

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why can't you just post the entire interview?

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On one end, its only part of the city that is the murder capital on the other "we need to do something about guns"...
Gun violence doesn't seem to affect any of the class of people i know. Most people behind a gun are unintelligent people; they simply don't know how to use their brains.
Are you sure we need to do something about the guns, or would it be better to do something about the people who have them? Even better: should we doing something about the parental guidance (or lack thereof)? Should we really let a few idiots spoil our freedom, and likely take our country into a totalitarian dystopian future?
Education (autodidactism or otherwise) is what will stop all of this. Doing something about ghetto rap culture will stop much of this. Its not cool to be a ghetto rap fool.