Friday, August 10, 2018

Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I just saw a movie with right speech and wrong speech.  "Black Klanskkman", Spike Lee's new film, "tells it like it is", and he's not afraid to confront the history of racism in America and show us who we are as a nation.  The movie is funny, human, horrifying and grieving.  It's bookcased by Gone With the Wind and Birth of a Nation and, at the end, footage of Charlottesville.  We might have grown beyond race baiting and fear, but we have not.  It's powerful and wrenching.
Wow!  What a year!  Get Out, Black Panther, then Sorry to Bother You, then Blindspotting and now this.  Black filmmakers have come into their own.  And each film is fresh and unique and breathes new life into movies.  And the young filmmaker Jordan Peele of Get Out is the producer of Black Klanskkman, by the venerable Lee.  Lots of right speech, heartfelt speech, speech that we should listen to and learn from.

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