Spike Lee had a strong message for the film industry Saturday night while accepting his honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards: Get real about racial diversity.
The Do the Right Thing director made it clear that Hollywood is lacking people of color in key positions.
“This industry is so behind sports, it’s ridiculous,” Lee said from the podium. “It’s easier to be the president of the United States as a black person than to be the head of a studio. Honest. Or the head of a network.
“I’m getting real here,” Lee told the room filled with Hollywood’s most powerful executives and biggest stars. “Everybody here probably voted for Obama. But when I go to offices, I see no black folks, except for the brother man who is the security guard who checks my name as I go into the studio.”
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