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Sunday, January 24, 2016
Spike Lee's CHI-RAQ is a Must See-The Academy was Blind to Overlook
Spike Lee has voiced his outrage at the lack of diversity in the Oscar race this year. His brilliant film is a powerful, literary, artistic, accurate & painful depiction of misery & injustice in our nation. Set in the city of Chicago, a hailstorm of gang warfare & destruction in the impoverished south side that is under fire for fatal shootings of unarmed black men by white officers. Exacerbating matters the police force are exonerated and innocent victims are assassinated. Lee appropriate's Aristophone's Lysistrata where women leave men to masturbate & wait for sex until guns & hate mitigate: "No peace No pussy." The rap dialogue emulates Shupak, Lin Manuel & Maya Angelou. People scorn while thousands mourn the senseless killings. I do not give proper justice to Lee's masterpiece. It deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Never has a film painted a picture of our present plagues with such mastery of words, images & artistry. Spike is packing CHI-RAQ with star ammo: Samuel Jackson, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Basset, John Cussack and Wesley Snipes. The leads Nick Cannon & Teyonah Parris are dynamo. Lee's film is entertaining but note it's pertaining to the travesty and oppression that shows no signs of cessation. Hopefully, ladies & literacy can lead the way to peace & harmony. Let's all sign a peace accord to discard guns, gangs your glock. Shed not futile tears but together, starting here, at home, make our cities war free zones. Chicago, CHI-RAQ, CHI LITES' "Oh, girl, I'd be in trouble if you left me now. I don't know where to look for love, I just don't know how."
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