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By Nick Long —
Spike Lee’s newest film, BlacKkKlansmen, is a retelling of the events that happened in the 1970’s revolving around Ron Stallworth infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan.
Stallworth, played by John David Washington, is the first black police officer in Colorado Springs. While Stallworth is himself is on the phone with the Klansmen, he enlists the help of his white coworker Flip Zimmerman (played by Adam Driver), to play the part of Stallworth in person with the Klansmen.