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How Boots Riley And Spike Lee ‘Squashed’ Their Rivalry Over ‘BlacKkKlansman’

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Spike Lee’s latest movie may earn him some impressive hardware at the Academy Awards on Sunday, but not everyone is convinced BlacKkKlansman is a winner. Boots Riley, director of the already underrated Sorry To Bother You, sparked a beef with Spike Lee when he pened an essay criticizing BlackKklansman for its positive representation of the police in a movie where an African American officer infiltrates and takes down a Colorado chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Riley called the film a “made-up story” which tries to “make a cop the protagonist in the fight against racist oppression.”

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