Thread by @MsPackyetti

.@BlacKkKlansman was a feature-length subtweet to Donald Trump, #MAGA, the 53%, Laura Ingraham, David Duke’s insecure self, and white supremacy.

And by subtweet, I mean all out callout.

You could hear a pin drop at the movie’s end.

And that’s all I’m emotionally ready to say.

Thank you, Uncle Spike.

Signed,
A protestor.

Here are the more subtle themes in @BlacKkKlansman I’m sitting with. Thoughts just starting to form (no spoilers):

1. The commentary on the inside/outside game. Ron Stallworth upended things from the inside, Patrice from the outside, all for liberation. In the film’s end, they both faced the same threat.

We need everyone. Distrust happens, but the judgement between us ain’t healthy.

2. Without giving it away, there are some real conversations to be had about Jewish people who “pass” as white, either by choice or rearing.

The ability to pass is a privilege, and white privilege benefits them. Yet, true white supremacists hate them, too. Deeply complex.

3. The one that is really sticking with me:

White supremacist men are as attached to their whiteness as they are their maleness.

And yet, the 53% run up after their approval-even though their men will let them do their bidding, and then throw them away.

WHEW.

Connie exhibits this throughout the film.

No spoilers, but let’s say she was all to happy to do the work of a white supremacist patriarchy that saw her as a disposable tool.

Kinda like how the 53% will still get their rights stripped away if Kavanaugh is confirmed.

The evidence that plenty of white women choose their whiteness over their womanhood in America has been there for centuries.

This is a reminder.

These are all still forming thoughts, but it is sitting with me.

You HAVE to see this film. I put it in the top 5 of Spike’s canon, and I’m glad he’s back.

Thanks to @JordanPeele, @MatthewACherry, @Monkeypaw + the whole crew for once again provoking us to action.

And I say this, sitting in DC, starting the movie on the anniversary of #Charlottesville and ending it on the anniversary of #HeatherHeyer’s death, with that shameful Unite the R!ght rally coming tomorrow, and trauma of my own protest experiences ripe in my mind.

This is heavy.