With <em>BlacKkKlansman, </em>Spike Lee Sounds the Alarm About America’s Past and Present
The director’s newest film follows a policeman who successfully infiltrated the KKK in the 1970s, but the story it tells is also very much about the U.S. today.
On August 11, 2017, about a year before the release of Spike Lee’s new film , various white-nationalist groups gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, to kick off their so-called rally. Racist demonstrators in support of white supremacy, resulting in . At the time, Lee was getting ready to make his next film, a 1970s-set true story of an African-American Colorado Springs cop who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. The director he couldn’t ignore the contemporary echo of hate groups roaring back into public life, so he madethat connectionas loud asto wrenching effect.
