Spike Lee on NBC: Easier for African-American to be POTUS Than Head of a TV Network

Kyle Drennen | December 1, 2015
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While promoting his new movie, Chi-raq, about gun violence in Chicago, during the 9 a.m. ET hour on Tuesday’s NBC Today, director Spike Lee claimed: “...it's easier for an African-American, a black person, to be President of the United States than to be president of a Hollywood studio or TV network cable.”

Co-host Tamron Hall replied: “Well, you're not afraid of controversy...” Lee pushed back: “Whoa, whoa, whoa, why is that controversial?” Hall explained: “Well, I think it is because some people don't realize that and they’re not ready to ingest that.” Lee argued: “That don’t make it controversial.”

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