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As Riley wrote in his three-page essay, the fictional elements inBlacKkKlansmanall seemed to paint police as anti-racist.
Ina new interview withThe Times, Lee defends his depiction of police, essentially saying check my credentials.
Im not going to say that.
I mean, we need police, explains the director.
Unfortunately, police in a lot of instances have not upheld the law; they have broken the law.
But Id also like to say, sir, that black people are not a monolithic group.
I have had black people say, How can a bourgeois person like Spike Lee doMalcolm X?
