On Spike Lee’s Silence

In his new film “BlacKkKlansman,” Spike Lee uses footage from last year’s deadly Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville. But the film says nothing about how the police watched white supremacists to attack counter-protestors. Who is Lee protecting?

Mad at the Government, but Not Progressive–Not Even Close

Since last Saturday, a group of armed white men who call themselves the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom has been occupying buildings in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Despite their extremist rhetoric, being heavily “armed and ready,” and holding federal territory hostage, officials have handled the conflict with marked, uncharacteristic leniency. These gunmen actually present little threat to the ruling class and the political establishment, and are far from putting forward any “radical solution” to the underlying problems of economic stagnation and miserable conditions.