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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, Funny) by VLM on Friday May 18 2018, @02:24PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) on Friday May 18 2018, @02:24PM (#681168)

    They've got homelands where its pretty nice for them plus or minus Israeli attacks. How much fun is it to be white in Europe or USA right now?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @05:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @05:48PM (#681290)

    Still better than being various shades of brown.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 18 2018, @07:35PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday May 18 2018, @07:35PM (#681342) Journal

    Hey. White girl here? Much more fun than it would be to be black. Granted, it's not helping me financially, but all else being equal I wouldn't change my melanin quotient if given the option.

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...