The Irony of Spike Lee and Bamboozled

In Spike Lee's Bamboozled, his major issue with the entertainment industry is that it is still controlled by whites. He points out in his film that the filter that is the white studio executive does not allow for a diverse image of blacks to be represented. However, after reading "Post-Art Minstrelsy" by Armond White, the fact that Lee himself passes through this filter is brought up. All of Lee's major films were produced and financed by major studios, even Bamboozled (New Line). In essence, Spike Lee is approved by white executives in order to have his racial and political films showcased to America. Armond White also brings up the fact that other writers/directors that he deems superior to Lee are not approved by white executives and their films go largely unnoticed. This class serves as a great example of those films. Most of the films shown I had never heard of, and I'm sure most of America still doesn't know about them. My point is this, America sees what major studio executives wants it to see, and it's been like that since Birth of a Nation first premiered over 90 years ago. Since 1915, the power of the entertainment industry has been in the hands of a few white executives who run the 6 major studios(Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., Columbia and Walt Disney). Yes, much has changed to better equalize blacks and whites since than, but until executive positions at these studios become diversified, misrepresentation and under representation of the black image will continue to occur.