Personally I dont give a shit about spike lee thinks or says.
He is a decent director with a good grasp at what it means to direct a movie. Other than that his movies arent anything special, they only got applause because he forces racism into everything he does. So because he is a black director that shoved in racism he gets all kinds of praise for making otherwise mediocre movies. Because really if you look at his movies minus the racism they arent that well scripted, paced, stories arent that good, characters are all stereotypes and the directing is decent.
Even his movies that have absolutely nothing to do with racism at all still have it in there. Like son of sam is still brimming with racist dialouge and racist overtones and racial stereotypes. Spike lee cant do anything unless its based around race.