Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman" Unmasks Racial Hatred Past, Present, Perpetual and Faces the True Facts

Spike Lee wears the trifecta crown as dir., producer & screenwriter of "BlacKkKlansman" based on Ron Stallworth's memoir.  Stallworth (John David Washington) is the 1st black officer, the "Jackie Robinson" on the Colorado Springs police force.  Stallworth became an undercover detective who along with his Jewish partner, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) infiltrated the clandestine & cowardly "organization" a.K.a. the Klu Klux Klan.  Stallworth's remarkable story exposed the KKK in the early 70s and foiled insidious plots to kill and terrorize blacks, Jews; all but the few with 100% Aryan blood.  Lee's film exposes our nation's racially divisive history & its prescient oppressive, murderous rage that has splayed its venomous head as fiercely as the water hoses utilized to dispel peaceful civil rights protestors of the past.  Harry Belaftone is brilliantly cast as a speaker to the union of black Univ students rallying v. racial oppression.  Mr. Belafonte is as famous for his acting/singing career as for his social activism.  He recounts the fear & horror of witnessing mob lynchings and his powerlessness.  The film is cleverly construed using the device of duplicities demonstrating opposing views of white power and black power.  Tribal affirmation, cultural heritage and pride underline the differences that divide but should provide a commonality of community and camaraderie.  This idealistic philosophy is overshadowed by the politics of  racial hatred & persecution, anti-Semitic propaganda, segregation, xenophobia and opposition to affirmative action.  The successful bi-racial, multi-ethnic partnerships of the detectives who together thwarted the KKK's atrocities were shortly lived.  Cross burnings were thwarted, a brazen bombing attempt was averted & a bad cop outed.  But, the commanding officer shut down Stallworth & Zimmerman's operation and ordered all records erased.  The depiction of young, beautiful black students embracing their inherent features as preached by Stokely Carmichael a.k.a. Kwame Ture were handsome & admirable; the KKK members & affiliates were hideous buffoons and alcoholics.  The overweight, intoxicated dullard in the KKK group credited blacks "they can dance, you got to give them that."  Scenes with footage from the "Birth of a Nation" cheered by Klansmen were shocking and sobering.  More disturbing are newsreels from Charlottesville Aug '17 along with footage of Trump who failed to condemn white supremacy or David Dukes.  Lee stirs up tension & disgust in this factual film that is at times hip, hilarious & engrossing at all times.  Everyone must see this outstanding film because everyone has skin in the game.  It's a shame everyone doesn't see beauty beyond the color of skin.   I see Oscar gold for Spike Lee, Adam Driver and John David Washington (a.k.a. son of Denzel Washington). "There is a higher law than the law of govt.  That's the law of conscience."  (Kwame Ture)