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Controversial filmmaker Spike Lee discusses the American iconography of John Wayne, in war and western films. Lee used a clip of Wayne to open his latest film "Miracle at St. Anna."
He explains that the mythology not only "builds-up the white race, but demeans other people."
Filmmaker Spike Lee and author James McBride discuss the overt racism that plagued the all-black 92nd Infantry Division that were sent to Tuscany during WWII, the subject of their film "Miracle at St. Anna."
"You had these redneck crackers...who thought these black soldiers were subhuman," says Lee.
Controversial filmmaker Spike Lee comments on the media accusations of elitism against Barack Obama. Lee claims "the tricksters" keep changing the rules of racial acceptability again and again.