After his expletive-filled speech on gentrification, Spike Lee is being called out by a T.V. anchor and Brooklyn residents who are not happy about what he had to say.
According to CNN, Errol Louis, a Brooklyn resident and political anchor at CNN affiliate NY1 News, had some words for the director.
"You personally turned Brooklyn into the hottest spot creatively and politically and you move out," he said. "What did you think was going to happen? You got rich selling this place. This is your brand and people who have a little money want to sort of take you up on it, and somehow that's a problem."
Louis is not the only one unhappy with Lee’s statements. The New York Daily News reported that some Brooklyn residents are also letting it be known how they feel about what the Driving Miss Daisy director said.
“I don’t see a negative to cleaning up a neighborhood,” Fort Greene resident Marina Rutherfurd said.
Another resident, Megan Feeney said that the filmmaker “has the right to live wherever he wants to live, and people have the right to live wherever they want to live.”
Fort Greene is an area Lee specifically mentioned when he went on a bit of a tirade about gentrification.
He later explained himself on Anderson Cooper 360. "My problem is, when you move into a neighborhood, have some respect for the history, for the culture."
The award-winning director also called for more affordable housing in New York City. His Upper East Side Manhattan townhome is listed at $32 million.