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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @06:53AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @06:53AM (#681041)

    But the genius of Chapelle's version is that the black white supremacist did not know he was actually black! Lee's protagonist is intentionally infiltrating. So just thing, like back is the sixties, when you were at the communist party meeting, and you realized that more than half of the other participants were Federal agents? If you are a racist alt-righter, KKK or other, on line today, at least half of your fellow members are probably black, or Federal agents, or antifa that are going to tag you on your next cos-play outing. Be afraid, racists! Be very afraid!

  • (Score: 2) by Spamalope on Friday May 18 2018, @01:16PM

    by Spamalope (5233) on Friday May 18 2018, @01:16PM (#681143) Homepage

    So this is a chance for total information awareness/google/ad network stalkers to identify the Antifa infiltrators and out them as white supremacists?
    That'd be trolling worth a ba-gillion Internet points!