How Spike Lee’s ‘BlackKklansman’ Became the World’s Most Uncomfortable Mirror—Shipping Globally Since 1978
It’s tempting, when watching Spike Lee’s BlackKklansman, to file it under “Only in America” and change the channel to something less combustible—say, a documentary on competitive cheese-rolling. After all, the film’s central gag is so brazenly farcical that even Monty Python would have rejected it for being too on-the-nose: in 1970s Colorado Springs, a Black…