Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman draws a ham-fisted line from white supremacy’s past to its present

Midway through Spike Lee’sBlacKkKlansman, mostly set in the 1970s, a white cop explains to the Colorado Springs Police Department’s only black cop that the way to push racist ideologies to the average American who doesn’t consider himself racist is to slip it in beneath other issues, like immigration and crime and affirmative action and tax reform.