Spike Lee’s Parents’ House Vandalized After His Brooklyn Gentrification Comments

 
The home of Spike Lee’s parents’ has recently been vandalized, along with their neighbor’s home. This comes on the heels of Lee’s remarks about the gentrification of Brooklyn by white “hipsters.”
A neighbor told local reporters that the vandalism to the Fort Greene brownstone house occurred overnight on Thursday on Washington Park.
The vandals spray painted “Do the right thing” and smashed a window on their front door. Lee, of course, directed a movie by the same name back in 1989, making it clear that this was a response to his comments.
Dianne Mackenzie has lived in the neighborhood for 17 years. She discovered the vandalism.
“All I know is that he made a lot of comments that went viral, the next day my house is vandalized,” Mackenzie told CNN. “There is probably some kind of connection in the mind of whoever did this … There is no reasonable reason for it. If this person has got something to say, fine say it. Don’t damage my property.”
Lee’s brother, Arnold Lee, also stated that the attacks were in response to the gentrification comments. Arnold, however, said that “Spike needs to stop with whatever situation he talked about over here, because he doesn’t live here and he is not involved in it.”
Arnold, however, acknowledged that Spike’s comments are a matter of “freedom of speech.” Still, he said that Spike should “Say what you want about whatever topic, but don’t make it personal.”
“The moment you start going, ‘Well, I live here,’ and he doesn’t live here. You know he lives in Manhattan so … this is my dad’s house, and it’s kind of personal. Leave us out of it. Because I feel bad … my neighbor, she is a good friend.
Mackenzie said, regarding the comments, that Fort Greene has always been vibrant and diverse neighborhood, with many longtime home owners of all backgrounds.
“It’s always been a very mixed neighborhood, racially, culturally, socially,” she explained. “It’s retained that identity. It’s also been a neighborhood that attracts a lot of people from the arts. And it still does. I don’t think that the flavor of the neighborhood has changed. The people in it have changed, and where they come from maybe. A lot of people from Europe, people from Africa, we have people from all over in Fort Greene.”
Tuesday Spike Lee, speaking at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, asked ”why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the South Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better? The garbage wasn’t picked up every mother******* day when I was living in 165 Washington Park. … The police weren’t around. When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o’clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something.”
On Wednesday, he clarified on “Anderson Cooper 360″ that ”my problem is that when you move into a neighborhood, have some respect for the history, for the culture,” Lee said.
Police are currently in the process of investigating the vandalism.

1 Peter 5:8
 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Psalm 44:
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 

14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people