Everyday human beings doing the extraordinary

Rating: 7/10 (7 October 2019)

BlacKkKlansman tells the story of Ron Stallworth, the first African-American undercover agent for the Colorado Springs Police Department as he infiltrates the infamous Ku Klux Klan back in the '70s. Not bad for someone that was originally hired to be the poster boy of the CSPD's effort to diversify. Starring John David Washington (son of THE Denzel W.) and Adam Driver (HBO's Girls, Star Wars), we follow them as they take on the dangerous task of finding out if a known hate group with a massive reach and resources has really reformed or is still out for blood for the sole purpose of "making America great again."
The movie is very timely considering what's happening in the US: racism has become mainstream again, rising from the shadows from whence they were banish forth. If you think about it, it's true when George Santayana said that 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' Here we are 50 years later, white supremacy is rearing it's ugly head once again. Depending on which side of the narrative you are, you will feel disgust as the poisonous hate and the creative ways the whites spew like they own the world are never-ending, or if you are a white supremacist you will feel disgust among your colleagues for having been fooled by a tandem of cops, one is Black rookie and the is a non-practicing Jew.
Comparable to last year's The Post, and 2015's Spotlight, BlacKkKlansman will give you your fix of normal, everyday human beings doing the extraordinary in the service of humanity even at the risk of their own life. The difference is amidst taking on a serious and heavy topic, director Spike Lee made sure to put some needed humor so we don't choke on the urgency of what message the movie is trying to convey. I mean if you really think about it, it's not that hard to make fun of those that are so full of themselves they honestly believe they can do no wrong, thinking highly of themselves as the chosen race when the rest of the world looks at them like a joke that write itself (insert Pelosi clapping at Trump.) If anything, I realized sometimes you really have to see destruction first because from there, only better things will come. If from all this hate and death we will see another Marthin Luther King Jr. rise from the ashes or Obama become a world leader again, maybe it will make it all worth it.