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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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1. "aristarchus" - https://soylentnews.org/~aristarchus/
2. "theGrio" - https://thegrio.com/2018/05/16/spike-lee-blasts-trump-for-not-condemning-the-klan-and-alt-right/
3. "movie" - https://thegrio.com/2012/02/25/slideshows-films-that-made-the-worst-impact-on-african-americans/#s:worst-black-movies-soul-plane-cover-jpg
4. "reports Vulture" - http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/read-it-spike-lee-and-his-anti-trump-speech-at-cannes.html
5. "YouTube video of Spike Lee's comments at Cannes" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke4KjIeUMKg
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