Spike Lee has explained his profanity-laden gentrification rant to CNN, claiming that he has no problem with white people moving into African-American dominated neighborhood.

However, Spike Lee told Anderson Cooper 360 that his problem with gentrification is when somebody moves into the neighborhood but doesn't have respect for history and culture. Even as the director conceded that the shift toward wealthier residents can boost property values, there's a darker side to the trend as well.

"There's good. But what cost? If we lose half of the African-American population, in my neighborhood, Fort Greene, and the schools become better, what happened to half the people that left?"

The "Malcolm X" director also explained that he was angry because of the double standard in the way government provide service to affluent neighborhoods and poor, black communities.

"I just find it interesting you have to have an influx of white New Yorkers to move into these neighborhoods for the services to go up, for the schools to be better. They get better sanitation, get more police protection," Spike Lee said.

"Why didn't that happened before gentrification? We're still paying taxes. We're still New Yorkers," Spike Lee added.

On Tuesday, Spike Lee spoke to residents in Brooklyn and went off on a rant on the question about gentrification by D.K. Smith, managing director of the start-up Brooklyn Innovation Center.

"I grew up here in Fort Greene. I grew up here in New York. It's changed. 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?"

Spike Lee likened the changes of gentrification to the "Christopher Columbus Syndrome" where new residents come in and impose their ways to try to change the present culture in the neighborhood.

"You can't just come in the neighborhood and start bogarting and say, like you're motherfuckin' Columbus and kill off the Native Americans," he said.

"You have to come with respect. There's a code. There's people." Spike Lee added.