Ron Stallworth, a Colorado detective that infiltrated the Klan and thwarted a planned terrorist attack and bombing. “BlacKkKlansman” is Spike Lee’s new movie about this true story. The fine film received criticism from African-Americans who felt the movie glorified police.
I walked out with my own frustration, not directed at Lee, but at conservatives in America. You see, conservatives have let the Left depict blacks as victims whose circumstances keep them down, although there are great stories like that of Stallworth, who embodied of the American Dream.
Lee’s opinions remain relevant while conservative voices are stifled. Conservatives can cry “media bias,” but they also need to blame themselves. Conservatives haven’t made the right investments in art and film that demonstrates the great American story: while bigotry and hate exists, many groups, such as the Catholics, Irish, and Asians have overcome that bigotry, made their own place in this country, and achieved the American Dream.
In the fifties, conservatives countered communism with films about the free market. Today, we need to find new John Waynes, Ronald Reagans, and Clint Eastwoods, because conservatives don’t seem to know how to make a powerful message about America’s greatness. The Left has taken advantage of conservatives’ absence in film, culture, and media. I could sit here complaining, or I could take Lee’s art as inspiration to write stories and do films about the lies and true nature about socialism.
I could certainly criticize Lee. He can peddle his message of grievance, but America has been good to Lee. This nations provided him opportunities that wouldn’t have been available to him anywhere else.
“BlacKkKlansman” was about identity politics rather then finding ways to find common ground and come together. Why make a film about the evil that is David Duke rather than a story on Stallworth as a living example of the American Dream? He was the first black detective in a white suburb in Colorado, but racism this didn’t stop him from achieving career success.
Conservatives could use stories like this to win the hearts and minds of African-Americans, but we haven’t even tried. Conservatives have allowed the Left to indoctrinate our youth with the narrative that America was built on genocide rather then showing that while our Founding Fathers weren’t perfect, they constructed the best government that could correct and contain wrongs made by human beings.
I challenge conservatives to invest in minority filmmakers. While the Left has taking over Hollywood, I would advise conservatives to build their own Hollywood that can tell a different message, not only to Red America, but also to black America.
