Spike Lee appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper on Wednesday to repeat the gist of the expletive-filled speech (but without the expletives) he made at Pratt Institute on Tuesday. The heart of Lee's original rant, which, among other things, pointed out the hypocrisies of gentrification experienced by New York city neighborhoods over the years (most recently Brooklyn), appears below.

"I grew up here in New York. It's changed," Lee said at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, an art, design, and architecture school, CNN reported. "And 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."

With Anderson Cooper, Lee was equally as intense, but more controlled in speech, as he wondered why a predominantly black or poor neighborhood couldn't gentrify itself -- and why it took white people moving in to do so.

D.K. Smith, a Brooklyn homeowner and tech start-up director, who first brought up the subject of gentrification on Tuesday night, admitted some truths in Lee's words, but also felt the movie director was forgetting the other side of the issue while he failed to give Smith a chance to reply (Smith said he didn't mind), according to CNN.

It would seem like a good portion of the controversy associated with Lee's speech had to do with his suspect public speaking abilities. Maybe he wasn't motivated the night he came to my alma mater, Hamilton College, to speak my senior year, but he wasn't much of a talker that night as he basically recounted his life story in an uninspiring tone. We would have been better off reading his accolades on Wikipedia. Likely, he'll never come back to Hamilton.