Spike Lee, given an honorary award by the Academy of Arts and Sciences Saturday night, used the opportunity to climb atop the PC soapbox, lecturing, “We can talk, you know, yabba, yabba, yabba, but we need to have some serious discussion about diversity, and get some flave up in this!”

That wasn’t all; Lee harangued, “This industry is so far behind sports, it’s ridiculous. It’s easier to be president of the United States as a black person than be head of a studio. Honest.” He stated “nothing’s changed” since he first came to Hollywood.

Where does one start in addressing the ridiculousness of Lee’s complaints? In 2014, “12 Years a Slave,” was nominated for nine Oscars and won three, including best picture, but that wasn’t enough, because the Academy didn’t genuflect before Selma, a mediocre film.

And just how does the same person who once admitted, “I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street,” yet claimed in the same interview, "I'm a very spiritual person," and exploded that he didn’t welcome whites as they triggered the gentrification of Harlem have the nerve to pose as a model of tolerance?

Even more, how the hell does the Academy have the nerve to give an honorary award to someone who once said someone should take former Oscar-winning actor and SAG president, Charlton Heston, and “shoot him with a .44-caliber Bulldog”?

“Shoot him with a .44-caliber Bulldog."

Spike Lee on Charlton Heston

Oh, but Lee is a bringer of peace – when it suits him, and the current political PC. At the end of his 18-minute dissertation, Lee gushed, “Peace and love to the people in France.” No mention of the perpetrators, of course; that wouldn’t fly in leftist Hollywood.

Of course, when South Africa was riven by racial animosity many years ago, Lee had a slightly different message:

Black South Africans are gonna have to kill people. Why should this be different than the history of the world? Tell me a place where people just handed power over to somebody else. Never before in the history of the world has a government just handed power over another. That Gandhian shit don't work. They gotta start picking up guns.

The Academy giving Lee an honorary Oscar? Perfect. if they could, they'd canonize him.