Spike Lees view says that to tell a story around a political or racial view point you must belong to the group of people the story is about.

For example, a middle class white woman, in lees eyes, can not tell a story about working class black men. As she wouldn’t understand the struggles and hardships.

Do I agree?

• To an extent, as although I believe they could tell the story in. a possibly successful way, they wouldn’t be able to tell the story with as much meaning and understanding as someone who comes from the same background as the characters he is telling a story about as if they come from the same background, then they will have special insight into how day to day life is for the characters of the story, in turn making the story more realisitic and relatable  to the target audience.