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Watch Spike Lee Blast Trump for Not Condemning the Klan and Alt-Right

posted by martyb on Friday May 18 2018, @04:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-punches-pulled dept.

aristarchus submitted a story which became:

At theGrio, Spike Lee blasted Trump for not condemning the Klan and Alt-Right:

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman was well received at the Cannes Film Festival, and the prolific director did not hold back giving his take on how President Donald Trump has contributed to a hateful, divisive culture.

In the movie, about a black man (John David Washington) who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan, Lee inserted a moving documentary montage at the end of the film about the conflict in Charlottesville, reports Vulture. The movie included a powerful ending messaging about Heather Heyer, the young woman [who] was killed when a white nationalist ran her over with a car during the protests.

“It’s an ugly, ugly, ugly blemish on the United States of America,” Lee said at the press conference for the film.

The story contains a link to a YouTube video of Spike Lee's comments at Cannes, as well as a transcript of that video.

[Note: Emphasis was in the source. -Ed]

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  • (Score: 3, Redundant) by Tangaroa on Friday May 18 2018, @01:51PM (3 children)

    by Tangaroa (682) on Friday May 18 2018, @01:51PM (#681156) Homepage
    Would Soylent publish an article like this about Michael Savage condemning Nancy Pelosi for refusing to condemn Antifa, with a couple of lines glorifying one of the white supremacists from Charlottesville? This is a marketing plug, not news.
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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by VLM on Friday May 18 2018, @02:26PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Friday May 18 2018, @02:26PM (#681170)

    Spike Lee has been picken cotton on the Democratic Plantation for a long time, its not even news.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @09:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @09:37PM (#681410)

      NEWS FLASH! VLM IS A BIGOT!

      oh wait, that is from yeeeears ago.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday May 18 2018, @05:04PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday May 18 2018, @05:04PM (#681263) Journal

    Would Soylent publish an article like this about Michael Savage condemning Nancy Pelosi for refusing to condemn Antifa

    No, because protesting Nazis is our right as citizens.

    Murdering the people who are protesting the Nazis, on the other hand, not so much...