Director Spike Lee predicted there will be some black Americans who will vote to reelect President Trump this fall, but that the percentage will be smaller than the president thinks.
“Well, there are some negroes [laughs] that have drunk or will drink the orange Kool-Aid that’s coming in November, but it’s a very, very small percentage, and I needed — we needed that,” Lee said Tuesday.
Lee is working on a new movie about the Vietnam War that features a character who is a black Trump supporter.
“My co-writer Ken Wilmott and I to put some tension in the group. These four brothers who grew up, who fought side-by-side in the Vietnam War and are coming back 40 some years later,” Lee explained. “So everybody can’t be — everybody went off after they came back from the war, so people went their different ways and … I would like to add, played by the great actor Delroy Lindo, he really makes you understand why he’s wearing that hat, and you have sympathy for him.”
The May 25 death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died when a white officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes, has sparked massive protests and renewed the debate about systemic racism and policing in the United States.
Prominent Democrats, celebrities, and pundits in the media have criticized Trump’s response to the civil unrest, accusing him of fanning the flames of racial tension and projecting strength against protesters instead of compassion for their cause.
Lee, a frequent Trump critic, said the “uprisings don’t come out of nowhere.”
“What we speak about in 2020, why people are upset — they don’t get it,” Lee said.
