Spike Lee Offers to Pay Malcolm X’s Estate Debt
The estate of Malcolm X allegedly owes the Manhattan Mini storage company $2,447.
The management of the Manhattan Mini storage company have reportedly threatened to start auctioning off the items in the storage unit because the amount owed to them has been outstanding for a long period of time.
According to the New York Post, filmmaker, Spike Lee, somehow heard about the debt and has said that he would pay the money for the late Malcom X’s estate.
Spotted at a Grand Classics screening of “Midnight Cowboy” at the famous hotel, the W Downtown, last Thursday, the filmmaker reportedly requested that the storage company call him and he would “take care of it”.
The filmmaker may feel some connection to the murdered civil rights icon because he was one of the writers and producers behind the movie, “Malcolm X,” which starred Denzel Washington. Ignoring the bill would have seemed unusual considering the filmmaker’s ties to the late Malcom X.
According to the New York Post, Lee may not have to step up after all as the Malcom X estate has said they have the intention to pay. They have also stated that the storage unit doe snot have anything of value that can be associated with the late Malcom X.
Spike Lee is currently busy with directing “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” a memoir show starring boxing legend, Mike Tyson.
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We black folk should always, when we have the financial ability, take care of things like this before the all watching media gets hold and blows it out of proportion.
Thanyou Bredda Spike. I would have the same exact thing and I dont have the ties or nearly the money you have. Once again thankyou.
SPIKE all I can say is I Salute You!
Great move Spike! Where is the twenty minutes dropped from The Malcolm X movie? You are the master in the Urban genre.How about a movie on Huey Newton and/or Angela Davis?(put real/soft “Black Love” i.e. EW&F)
LAWAZIZ
WOW! right on SPIKE,I think Black people should really get into doing random act’s of kindness for Black people think what a difference this would make in term’s of taking care of self as a PEOPLE…THUMB’S UP SPIKE!
Imagine doing another “black” person a good deed and finding out that that person’s mind is so conflicted that he/she, would think,do,vote, or even commit something harshly negative against you and yours. That is how confused diverse corrupted, distorted, fantasy filled, retarded, whimsical, violent, and ridiculously lost our ‘African American’ society is, in this distorted ‘American’ (white-dominant) social-structure!
If it isn’t a move that helps everyone, then what is it? Worse still. Nearly everything we [purchase] goes directly or indirectly to a greedy corporate Anglo-elite wealth structure which would much rather see us suffer and die, than see us grow and prosper! Study the situation and the results of everything you or I do, and it can actually be frightening to see the realities that spin-off. It’s good for them that we (most of us) can’t see any further than they want us to!
The city of new york should pay the bill, they murdered him, And if they refused they should go to the FBI, and collect their money. We all know that they had a hand in his death.What difference would it make anyway, they cannot collect from the dead. Only in America, that these sharks could try to make money from a man who has been dead for over 50 years. Eat the stuff in there you dirt bag.
You are sooo right..greedy a***s..
This story is a non-informative segment of our daily, or whatever, enlightenment! We are left to expend unnecessary brain synapses on nonsense which is already a problem we are suffering from constantly, and unfortunately. Our “black” community is warped and distorted by a deluge of misguidance and misinformation, among many other negatives.
Many of us here, and across the African diaspora have no idea as to what is behind so many issues our most impoverished and unfortunate (Not to mention our intelligentsia and wealthy!)are suffering from.
This leaves many of us blaming each other for the multitude of problems we are unable to digest and/or figure-out properly! The reasons we are suffering as part of the African diaspora is right before our eyes, yet we are almost as a whole, oblivious to the intricacies and [all] the particulars that create such a “black hole” of hardships and ignorance not to mention the many other negatives.
Right On Spike!! people i was in some of spik lee movies and he is about his.To bad other black actors and singers, rappers and black politicans and leaders dont do stuff like this. Huh!! actually the FBI and the state of New York,who had a big hand in Malcolm X murder should pay the bill and his family…
Why announce it Spike…for 3 grand just pay it!
The Malcolm X estate said they will pay the less than 3 grand.Spike Lee if he wanted to pay the paltry sum would not have said that the storage company should call him because it is he the ‘big’ publicity seeking Lee who should call the company.Malcolm X was not into civil rights as Spike Lee falsely portrayed him to be in his movie because as Malcolm X said himself that he was fighting for human rights and not civil rights.Lee also falsely portrayed Malcolm X as an ‘American’ draped in the American flag when Malcolm X truly told all that he was an Afrikan.The only flag Malcolm X would have draped himself in was the flag of the Afrikan race created by Marcus Garvey whose colours are RED,BLACK AND GREEN and not the racist star spangled American one devised by the racist enslavers and rapists of Afrikan people,Thomas Jefferson,George Washington,Benjamin Franklin,Adams and others.
Mandingo, I learnt that Malcolm, unlike Martin L King et al, fought/advocated for human rights. Spike is an opportunist. He should pay from the proceeds of the film he made about Malcolm.
An opportunist, and yet he offered to pay it out HIS pocket not used whatever proceeds from the film, now while I agree with Mandigo at least he didnt go the typical label-putting stupid route that you did Halima.
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Spike watch in the Next 30 yrs something will come out, they have already been in the stuff. Just Watch and see, you can Not Bet the Divel at his Game.
if I was a Betting Man I would bet $100 something Bad will come out.
((((Just my Thinking)))))
I Been around almost 80 yrs
only in AMERICAN