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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   
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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• Re:Lets see him go first Re:Lets see him go first (Score: 4, Touché) by c0lo on Friday May 18 2018, @01:57PM (3 children)

  by c0lo (156) on Friday May 18 2018, @01:57PM (#681159) Journal

  How can you not know about it?

  I don't know. The fact that I'm living more than 12000km away from the continental US may be a reason, what do you think?

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• Re:Lets see him go first (Score: 2) by Tangaroa on Friday May 18 2018, @02:14PM

  by Tangaroa (682) on Friday May 18 2018, @02:14PM (#681161) Homepage

  That'll do it.

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• Re:Lets see him go first Re:Lets see him go first (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @11:10PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @11:10PM (#681427)

  Do they have njiggers where you live?

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  • Re:Lets see him go first (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @06:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @06:22AM (#681537)

    Of course, I realize you're not referring to people of color, you're referring to people just like you.

    I'd say yes, it's likely, seeing that low intelligence haters are everywhere.

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