Spike Lee’s Recent Brooklyn Rant is Gentrific!

AL BELLO/GETTY IMAGES VIA NYDAILYNEWS.COMSpike Lee hates the gentrification of Brooklyn and will take almost any chance to rail against it. Tuesday night while speaking at a Pratt event he had a big ol’ hissy fit about all the fancy dancy gentrification going on in Brooklyn. Some dude in the audience asked a question about “the other side of gentrification.” Lee, who grew up in Fort Greene, proceeded for seven entertaining minutes to gentrify this guy a new bunghole.

Lee railed against the "Christopher Columbus syndrome" of neighborhoods "discovered" by wealthy gentrifiers. He blasted real estate agents and "motherfucking hipsters" that changed the names of neighborhoods like the South Bronx to SoBro or Bushwick to East Williamsburg. “These Williamsburg motherfuckers are changing the names,” he said. Mr. Lee’s name should be changed to Mr. Potty Mouth. From this point on, for the rest of my days, I will refer to Mr. Spike Lee as Mr. Potty Mouth or simply Potty Mouth or even simpler, Mr. PM or PM.

Here goes.

Mr. PM must be all teary eyed about the gentrifying of Gowanus, which of course is an acronym for Got Only Wholefoods And Nasty Ugly Sewage. How about the The Slope with it’s wildly popular acronym Such Liberal Organic-Minded People Exist. 

PM went on to rail against the furry four footed members of our borough taking their morning dumps by asking the Pratt audience “Have you seen Fort Greene Park in the morning? It’s like the motherfucking Westminster Dog Show. There’s 20,000 dogs running around.”

Yikes. Imagine how mad PM would get if he wandered into Prospect Park during off leash hours. We will see Fort Greene Park’s 20,000 dogs and raise it another 20,000! Park Slope is downright lousy with dogs and gentrification! Why not give us some choice words too, PM?  Park Slope gets all booboo-lipped when we’re left out of the gentrification tirade.

Come on, leave Fort Greene and Williamsburg alone for awhile and take a swing at Park Slope. We are gentrific too!

I am sure Potty Mouth is selling his 8,292 square foot Upper East Side townhouse for $32M because that neighborhood has gentrified too much for his taste. What do you think? Maybe the area has gone from being plain ol’ fancy to being very fancy.