I watched the movie BlacKkKlansman the other night and felt disturbed after watching it. One might think I was disturbed because of the subject matter which in and of itself is disturbing. Particularly the white supremacist violence and dirty cop portions of the movie. However, the fact that the first black police officer, Ron Stallworth, on the Colorado Springs, Colorado police department was able to infiltrate the local and national Ku Klux Klan was amusing to me. I thought it was great and showed great initiative from the police officer in the 1970’s. What disturbs me is the language used in the movie. It seems to me that the language used in the movie was not period language and was, in fact, eerily similar to language used by the left against President Trump and others who love the United States. Even to the point of including a picture of President Trump at the end of the movie in a disparaging way. In fact it even led me to do a double take to see when the movie was made (2018).
The only thing I have to say to Spike Lee, the film’s director, is way to inject your own current political opinions into a great story that easily could have stood on its own merits. I ask if you are now on the payroll of the Black Lives Matter Marxist movement and if I should support any more of your movies? This is disappointing to me because I consider you to be one of the greater directors of my generation dating back to when I watched Jackie Brown and She’s Gotta Have It in the theaters. Mr. Lee if you are going to make a contemporary political commentary in a historical piece you have strayed into the realm of propaganda to which I find it hard to forgive. Mr. Lee there actually is a whole other world that exists between the Hudson and Hollywood.