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Spike Lee: We need to have some serious discussion about diversity

Updated on: 16 November,2015 07:27 AM IST  | 
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Filmmaker Spike Lee has once again put Hollywood on blast

Spike Lee: We need to have some serious discussion about diversity

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Filmmaker Spike Lee has once again put Hollywood on blast.

Spike Lee
Spike Lee

While receiving an honorary Oscar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' seventh annual Governors Awards on Saturday, he said, "Everybody in here probably voted for Obama but when I go to offices, I see no black folks except for the brother man at the security who checks my name off the list as I go into the studio," he said.


"So we can talk yabba yabba yabba, but we need to have some serious discussion about diversity and get some flavour up in this. This industry is so behind sports it's ridiculous. Honestly, it's easier to be president of the United States than the head of a studio or head of network," he pointed out.



Lee urged Hollywood executives to take a closer look at the people around them. "I don't know if you noticed but the United States census bureau says by 2043, white Americans are going to be the minority in this country. And all you people out there in the position of hiring, you better get smart because you'l work for us. Reflect what this country looks like," Lee added.

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