Racism never disappeared for me. It’s not this surprising new thing. At Sundance, I overheard some guy saying, “The movie’s good. The Klan scene was over the top, though.” I think now, post-Charlottesville, he’ll say, “The Klan scene’s not over the top.”
Time featured the bolded sentences above, because somehow we didn’t know racism never disappears. This ginned up Spike to go after Trump as “Agent Orange,” which for youngsters who may not know, was used as a defoliant in Vietnam….which later gave Vietnam veterans cancer, leukemia, and other disorders.
SPIKE LEE: Plus, with Agent Orange in office, he’s giving the green light to a lot of these motherf-ckers, the wink-wink, “Come on out now, it’s cool.” Trying to equate the alt-right Nazis and KKK with the other group. It’s not the same.
REES: We voted him in. What does it say about us as a country? We voted for it. We went for it.
LEE: The people in my show live in the world today. They live in a world where the murderers of Eric Garner are still walking. Where Agent Orange has the motherf-cking nuclear code. That’s the world we live in. People are woke.
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