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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, @06:56PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @06:56PM (#681321)

    Sorry, I don't watch TV or movies. Your world that is apparently centered around celebrities is not the one I live in. Fuck off.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @07:19PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @07:19PM (#681331)

    Sorry, I don't watch TV or movies.

    Actually, I haven't owned a TV for the last several years and there are very few movies I have gone to for at least that long.

    Your world that is apparently centered around celebrities is not the one I live in.

    Oh, FFS! My world is not in any way centered around celebrities. Even so, I at least am enough aware of the wider world beyond the tip of my nose that I know who Spike Lee is and what Cannes is about. Again, you need to get out more. Much more.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @09:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @09:34PM (#681409)

      He can't get out until he swallows his red pill :P