Stranger than fiction? Apparently not.
“Story points are fabricated in order to make [a] Black cop and his counterparts look like allies in the fight against racism,” asserts Boots Riley, writer/director of Sorry to Bother You (2018), who calls out the subversive betrayal of BlaKkKlansman, and its writer/director Spike Lee as, essentially, a sell-out:
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