In Lieu of black history month, here's a review of this cool flick, the "Blackkklansman."
This movie comedically and intellectually illustrates the subtle differences between black and white minds, and there are differences, soul brothers and sisters! In the 1980s I lived in Tennessee and the Kentucky state line for four years during my Army tenue, and I was engulfed in both white and black culture.
In the 1980s, the N-word was heard daily by me for nearly a half decade, and the vast majority of the time it was used in jest by the black people, or brother's as they were most often called by each other and us white boys, or in my case, the "Crazy White Boy," as many of the brothers called me, and it fit, I was doing a lot of LSD then.
For the most part, black guys didn't laugh under the influence of LSD, and us white guys laughed so much, our stomachs hurt. Subtle differences.
This movie proves we can all coexist happily, while also expressing the harsh realities of unwarranted hatred for others based on insane Christian and political rhetoric.
"Blackkklansman" is the true tale of the real-life black police officer, Ron Stallworth who was the first African American cop at his Colorado police branch in the early 1970s. Officer Stallworth poised as a white man over the phone to KKK members. Stallworth was so convincing over the phone, the then Grand Wizard and National Director of the KKK, David Duke made him an official member of the KKK.
Another white police officer on the Colorado force was used to meet with KKK members. Officer Stallworth exposed David Duke for the pathic racist he truly is, and nobody seems to care. Why this insane organization is allowed to continue to exist and still have members in congress and other forms of government is crazy to me.
This movie is dedicated to Heather Heyer, the woman who was run over and killed by white supremist in Charlotteville, Virginia on Aug., 12, 2017, simply because she wasn't a racist, and our then President, the Racist in Chief, Donald J. Trump said these KKK killers were fine people.
After Heyer was brutally murdered by white supremist, David Duke said this is the first step in what Donald Trump alluded to early in his campaign. It's the first step in taking America back, Duke said.
