A few years ago some might have gone to see this movie as a way of tumbling back into the past. About 50 years. A reminder of just how volatile the subject of race can be in America.
Only nowadays this film might actually be a warning of what might be America’s future. And not some distant future either. The racists – the really flagrant racists – are clearly on the rise again. And not just in the heartland. Trump and the Republicans are using race again to sow the sort of discord that steers the white working class in the general direction of fascism. Bottom line: Who cares about the class struggle when any day now America will no longer be a white-majority nation.
And then the part about the Jews. And the part about the homosexuals.
Perhaps no one has yet to capture the politics of “divide and conquer” in America quite as effectively as it is encompassed here. youtu.be/bXWM84rUV-Q
Unless, of course, that might be Spike Lee.
Here he takes us back into the past [and possibly into the future] with a film “based on actual events”.
These events: "Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader.
It’s almost impossible even to imagine. So it is fascinating enough just to watch to see how it all actually unfolds.
And then this part: where do the events depicted in this film end and the presidency of Donald Trump begin? That’s inevitably a point of view of course but who can doubt the trajectory of “the race question” unfolding on the front pages of America today. All it really might take now is one or another economic or foreign policy crisis to ratchet the tensions up all the more. Then all bets are off.
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[b]The real Ron Stallworth had originally wanted Denzel Washington to play him, but was ecstatic to find out his younger son got the role.
Contrary to popular belief, the real Ron Stallworth never used a “white” voice on the phone. He ironically had to use his real voice or they would have caught him if he slipped out of character. When his white colleagues told him it could not work, he asked what made his voice any different from theirs, but they never answered.
The real David Duke called Ron Stallworth to express his concern over his “buffoonish, cartoonish idiot” portrayal in the film. Duke also said he respected director Spike Lee. After seeing the film, he was not pleased that the film did not follow the events of the book.
When producer Jordan Peele first pitched the story – “Black man infiltrates Ku Klux Klan” – to director Spike Lee, Lee first thought it might be a suitable Dave Chappelle skit, until Peele assured him that the story was authentic.
David Duke did not discover that Ron Stallworth was a black man until 2006, when a Miami Herald reporter contacted him for his side of the story.
The real Ron Stallworth claimed that one of his biggest regrets in the investigation not being made public is that, had it been revealed, David Duke would have been made a fool for having been conned by a black man, and might not have continued his political career.
The real Ron Stallworth kept his Klan membership card and unexpectedly revealed while promoting the film that he still carries it in his wallet. Stallworth joked that he was amused at the prospect of someone discovering it in his personal effects after his death. [/b]
trivia at IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt7349662/tr … tt_trv_trv
at wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlacKkKlansman
Trailer: youtu.be/pFc6I0rgmgY
BlacKkKlansman [2018]
Directed by Spike Lee
[b]Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard: Hello, my fellow Americans. They say we may have lost the battle but we didn’t lose the war. Yes, my friends, we are under attack. You may have read about this in your local newspapers or seen it on the evening news. That’s right. We are living in an era marked by the spread of integration and miscegenation. The Brown decision. The Brown decision, forced upon us by the Jewish-controlled puppets on the U.S. Supreme Court, compelling white children to go to school with an inferior race, is the final nail in a coffin, is the final nail in a black coffin towards America becoming a mongrel nation. We had a great way of life. We had a great way of life. We had a great way of life. We had a great way of life until the Martin Luther Coons of this world and their army of Commies started their civil rights assault against our holy white Protestant values. Do you really want your precious white child going to school with Negroes? They’re lying, dirty monkeys, stopping at nothing to gain their equality with white men. Rapists, murderers, craving the virgin white, is it “virgin pure”? Rapists, murderers, craving the virgin pure flesh of white women. They are super predators! And the Negro’s insidious tactics, under the tutelage of high-ranking, blood-sucking Jews, using an army of outside northern black beast preda…agitators. God, watch this! God! Using an army of outside northern black beast agitators determined to overthrow the God-commanded and biblically inspired rule of the white race. It’s an international Jewish conspiracy. May God bless us all.
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Official: What would you do if another cop called you a nigger? Or worse.
Ron: Would that happen, sir?
Official: Shiiiiit! There’s never been a black cop in this city. Now, if we make you an officer, you will, in effect, be the Jackie Robinson of the Colorado Springs Police Force. And if you know anything about Jackie Robinson, you know he had to take a lot of, uh, uh, guff from his fellow teammates, the fans, other teams and the press.
Ron: I know the Jackie Roosevelt Robinson story, sir.
Official: Good. So, knowing that, if somebody calls you a nigger, will you be able to turn the other cheek?
Ron: If I had to, sir, yes. Yes, I would.
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Landers [a white cop]: I need a file on a toad. You deaf? I said I need a file on a toad.
Ron: No toads here.
Landers: Excuse me?
Ron: I said I don’t have any toads. I do have human beings. You give me their names, I’ll get you the file.
Landers: I heard you think you’re hot shit, but you ain’t nothing but a cold fart…Was that respectful enough for you, Officer Toad?
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Chief Bridges: The black radical, Stokely Carmichael, is giving a speech tonight at Bell’s Nightingale.
Ron: Yep.
Bridges: Carmichael is a former high-muckety-muck with the Black Panthers. And as far as I’m concerned, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was dead right when he said the Black Panthers are the greatest internal threat to the security of these United States. This Carmichael joker, former Panther or not, well, they say he is a damn good speaker, and so we don’t want this Carmichael getting into the minds of the good black people here in Colorado Springs and stirring them up. Ron, your assignment is to go to this speech tonight, infiltrate this bunch of subversives and just monitor the audience reaction to Carmichael’s speech. You ready?
Ron: Born ready.
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Kwame Ture [aka Stokely Carmichael]: Let me ask you something…Is beauty defined as someone with a narrow nose?
Crowd: No!
Ture: Thin lips?
Crowd: No!
Ture: White skin?
Crowd: Hell no! Hell no! Hell no!
Ture: 'Cause you ain’t got none of that. Our lips are thick. Our noses broad. Our hair is nappy.
Crowd: Yes!
Ture: We are black, and we are beautiful!
Crowd: Yes!
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Ture: Y’all dig Tarzan? Tarzan. I’m gonna be honest. When I was a boy, I used to go to the Saturday matinees and watch Tarzan all the time. Okay. Yeah, yeah. And white Tarzan used to beat up the black natives. And I would sit there, yelling, “Kill the beasts!” “Kill the savages.” “Kill them. Kill them! Kill them! Kill them!” But what I was saying was: “Kill me.” That’s right. It was as if a young Jewish boy saw Nazis taking Jews off to concentration camps and cheered them on. Today, I want those chiefs to beat the hell out of Tarzan and send his lily white ass on back to the caves of Europe!!
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Ture [after denouncing the war in Vietnam]: I’d rather see a brother kill a white racist cop than kill a Vietnamese. Because at least, if he kills a racist cop, he is doing it for a reason: because they are shooting black people. In the backs, in these streets, right here in this very country. They’re killing us like dogs!
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Ture: I just want to leave you, sisters and brothers, with these last words. If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am for myself alone, who am I? If not now, when? If not you, who?
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Voice on the phone: You have reached the Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Please leave a message. And God bless white America.
Ron: Hello. This is Ron Stallworth calling. I saw your advertisement in the Colorado Springs Gazette. I’m interested in receiving some reading materials from you.[/b]
And so it begins.
[b]Walter [from the KKK on the phone]: This is Walter returning your call. From the Organization.
Ron: The Organization?
Walter: That’s right. We appreciate your interest. What’s your story?
Ron [while all the white detectives listen in]: Well, since you asked… Since you asked, I hate niggers. I hate Jews. Spics and Micks. Dagos and Chinks. But my mouth to God’s ears, I really hate those nigger rats. And anyone else, really, that doesn’t have pure white Aryan blood running through their veins. My sister, Pamela, she was just recently accosted by one of those black coons.
Walter: Is that so?
Ron: Yeah. Every time I think about that black baboon putting his filthy black hands on her pure-as- white-driven-snow body…I mean pure, Walter. She’s a saint. She’s an angel. It makes me want to puke.
Walter: You are just the kind of guy that we are looking for.
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Chief Bridges: Sergeant Trapp, Ron spoke to the man on the phone. All right, when they hear the voice of one of my guys, they’re gonna know the difference.
Ron: How so, Chief?
Bridges: You want me to spell it out for you? They’re going to know the difference between how a white man talks and a Negro.
Ron: How exactly does a black man talk? Chief, some of us can speak King’s English. Others speak jive. Ron Stallworth here happens to be fluent in both.
Bridges: Okay, Ron, how do you propose to make this investigation?
Ron: Well, I’ve established contact and created some familiarity with the Klansman over the phone. I’ll continue in that role, but I’ll need another officer…surprise, surprise, a white officer…to play me when they meet face-to-face. Chief, black Ron Stallworth over the phone, white Ron Stallworth face-to-face, so there becomes a combined Ron Stallworth.
Bridges: Can you do that?
Ron: I believe we can. With the right white man, we can do anything.
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Flip [as Ron]: But it’s also, you know, camaraderie I’m looking for with the Klan.
Felix: What the fuck did you say?
Flip: Camaraderie?
Felix: No, the other word.
Flip: The Klan?
Felix: Not “the Klan.” It’s “the Organization.” The Invisible Empire has managed to stay invisible for a reason. Do not ever use that word. You understand?
Flip: Hey, I over-stand. Right. You got it. The Organization.
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Walter: You know, I’ve had my own share of run-ins with niggers. Matter of fact, it’s what led me to the Organization.
Flip: Is that right?
Walter: Oh, it’s become my salvation. See, I was, uh…shot and wounded by a couple niggers. Then my wife was savagely raped by a whole pack of 'em.
Flip: God.
Walter: That’s right, and not a one of them went to jail. Tell you what. They’re taking over. Hell, it’s all you see on TV anymore. Niggers selling soap. Niggers selling toothpaste. Niggers selling automobiles. Everywhere you look, it’s niggers, niggers, niggers.
Ivanhoe: Yeah, wasn’t long ago them sumbitches wasn’t on no TV.
Walter: You’re forgetting about Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima.
Ivanhoe: Oh, dang. I kind of like them niggers. Rice and pancakes.
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Walter [on the phone]: This is Walter.
Ron: Ron here.
Walter: This is Ron? Sorry, your voice sounds different over the phone.
Ron: Uh… My allergies… allergies acting up again.
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Trapp: I’ve got a friend. He, uh, keeps up with these groups. He says they’re moving away from the old violent, racist style. So, that’s what Duke is peddling now. It’s, uh, becoming mainstream.
Ron: Duke?
Trapp: David Duke. Current Grand Wizard of the Klan. But he’s always in a three-piece suit, never seen in a hood or robe in public, and he now goes by “national director.” So he’s clearly got his sights on higher office.
Ron: Politics? How so?
Trapp: Yeah. It’s another way to sell hate.
Ron: Keep going.
Trapp: Think about it. Affirmative action, immigration, crime, tax reform. He says no one wants to be called a bigot anymore. I guess Archie Bunker made that too uncool. So the idea is, under all these issues, everyday Americans can accept it, support it, until eventually, one day, until eventually, one day, he gets somebody in the White House that embodies it. Sarge…
Ron: Come on. America would never elect somebody like David Duke president of the United States of America.
Trapp: Coming from a black man, that’s pretty naive.
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Walter: We about done here? We got a few more items on the, uh…
Felix: Not just yet. Gotta make sure there’s no Jew in him.
Walter: All right, now you’re just being offensive. Okay? We’re talking about someone who’s gonna be our brother in a few months. You see a Star of David around his neck? Is there a yarmulke on Ron’s head? Hmm?
Felix: Just protocol. My house, my rules. This way.
Flip: Where we going now?
Felix: I gotta show you something.
Walter: It’s not necessary, Felix. This is how we lose recruits.
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Felix: You are going to take this lie detector test. Take a seat.
Flip: What is this? Is this your Jew den? Is this where you make your candles, you know, and your lampshades?
Felix: Nah, you’re gonna take this lie detector test.
Flip: This is some lame bullshit.
Felix: Lame or not, you’re taking this Jew lie detector test. Sit down.
Flip: Okay, Felix. Out of respect for this Organization, I’ll play along with your little Get Smart bullshit, but I’m no fucking Jew.
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Felix: This Holocaust stuff…never happened. That’s the biggest Jewish conspiracy ever. Eight million Jews killed? Concentration camps? Never happened. Where’s the proof?
Flip: Are you high? 'Cause I’d say the Holocaust is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. It just makes sense to me. You have a whole race of leeches that you have to get rid of. So, what do you do? You starve 'em, you burn 'em, you get rid of 'em. It’s like weeding out roots for the better people. Haven’t you seen the footage?
Felix: That’s fake. Jews run Hollywood. Let me see your dick…I hear you Jews do something funny with your dicks. Some weird Jew shit. Is your dick circumstanced?
Flip: Oh, is that what this is about? You’re trying to see my big Jew dick, you fucking faggot.
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Flip: I didn’t want to say it with Trapp, but that peckerwood had a gun in my face, and he was an ass hair away from pulling the trigger.
Ron: And he didn’t.
Flip: But he could have. And then I would have been dead. For what? Stopping some jerk-offs from playing dress-up?
Ron: Flip, it’s intel.
Flip: Well, I’m not risking my life to prevent some rednecks from lighting a couple sticks on fire.
Ron: This is the job. What’s your problem?
Flip: That’s my problem. For you, it’s a crusade. For me, it’s a job. It’s not personal, nor should it be.
Ron: Why haven’t you bought into this?
Flip: Why should I?
Ron: Because you’re Jewish, brother. The so-called chosen people. You’ve been passing for a WASP. White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, cherry pie, hot dog, white boy. It’s what some light-skinned black folks do. They pass for white. Doesn’t that hatred you’ve been hearing the Klan say…doesn’t that piss you off?
Flip: Course it does.
Ron: Then why you acting like you ain’t got skin in the game, brother?
Flip: Rookie, that’s my fucking business.
Ron: It’s our business. Now, I’m going to get you your membership card so you can go to the cross burning and get in deeper with these guys. Okay. Right, partner?
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David Duke [on the phone]: Sorry, who am I talking to?
Ron: This is Ron Stallworth calling from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Duke: Uh, what can I do you for?
Ron: I-I desperately want to participate in my chapter’s honorary events, but I can’t until I receive my membership card.
Duke: Of course that’s something I can help you with.
Ron: Great. Um, who am I speaking with?
Duke: This is David Duke.
Rlon [realizing who he is talking to]: Did you just say your name was David Duke? Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan? That…that David Duke?
Duke: Yes, that Grand Wizard and national director, yeah.
Ron: National director, too, huh?
Duke: Yes, you’re darn tootin’.
Ron: That’s amazing. I’m honored to be speaking with you, sir. I’m not afraid to say it. I consider you a true white American hero.
Duke: Is there any other kind?
Ron: No, sir.
Duke; I’m just happy to be talking to a true white American.
Ron: Amen.
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Ron: What if there was a cop trying to change that?
Patrice: From inside?
Ron: Yes, from inside.
Patrice: You can’t change things from the inside. It’s a racist system.
Ron: You just give up like that?
Patrice: No. We fight for what black people really need…black liberation.
Ron: Right, right. So, can’t you do that from the inside?
Patrice: No, you can’t. The white man won’t give up his position in power without a struggle. What did Du Bois say about double consciousness? Twoness? Being an American and a Negro? Two warring ideals inside one dark body.
Ron: That’s heavy, Patrice. I feel that…like I’m two people all the time.
Patrice: But you shouldn’t have to be. We shouldn’t have a war going on inside ourselves. We should just be black.
Ron: We’re not there yet, though.
Patrice: Well, I’m tired of waiting.
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Felix: You got a twin.
Flip: What?
Felix: You got a twin.
Flip: Twin what?
Felix: A twin twin. And your twin is a nigger. Looked in the phone book. Went over to what I thought was his place. I found a nig there.
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Ron [giving Flip his KKK membership card]: This is it.
Flip: Holy shit. “Ron Stallworth, member in good standing for the year.” “Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.”
Ron: That’s us. Stallworth Brothers.
Flip: Yeah, well, you don’t have that little psychopath, Felix, staring at you, asking where you live. I’m Jewish, yes, but I wasn’t raised to be. It wasn’t part of my life. I never thought much about being Jewish. Nobody around me was Jewish. You know, I wasn’t going to a bunch of Bar Mitzvahs. I didn’t have a Bar Mitzvah. I was just another white kid. And now I’m in some basement denying it out loud. I never thought much about it. Now I’m thinking about it all the time.
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Ivanhoe: You soak the wood in kerosene and light a cig on a pack of matches. It kind of buys you some time to get the fuck out before the cross catches fire.
Flip: Yeah. Must be quite a sight.
Ivanhoe: Oh, yeah, it is. It’s great. It’s a real bonfire. You can see it from miles away, you know? Good visibility, as Walter would say. Freaks out the Jew media, and it… well, it keeps niggers on their nigger toes.
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Ron [on the phone]: Me and Butter Biscuit played together every day. One day, my father came home early from work. He told me I couldn’t play with that little spook anymore because I was white and Butter Biscuit was a nigger.
Duke: That’s so rich. Well, your father sounds like a terrific man.
Ron: He was a true American. Taught me what was right.
Duke: This is why we need more people like you and me in public office… Get this country back on track.
Ron: Amen.
Duke: For America to achieve its greatness again.[/b]
Hint, hint.
[b]Ron [on the phone]: Aren’t you ever concerned of some smart-aleck nigger calling you, pretending to be white?
Duke: No. I can always tell when I’m talking to a Negro.
Ron: How so?
Duke: Take you, for example, Ron.
Ron [suddenly concerned]: Me?
Duke: Yeah. I mean, I can tell that you’re a pure Aryan white man from the way you pronounce certain words.
Ron: Can you give me any examples?
Duke: Yeah, take the word, uh, “are.” Pure Aryan like you or I would pronounce it correctly. “Are.” Negro pronounces it “are-uh.” Did you ever notice that? It’s like, “Are-uh you gonna fry up that crispy fried chicken, soul brother?” You know?
Ron: Wow. You are so white. Thank you for teaching me this lesson. If you had not brought it to my attention, I wouldn’t have noticed the difference between how we talk and how Negroes talk.
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Ron: Mr. Stallworth. Pleased to meet you.
Stallworth: Names of chapter members?
Ron: What is this about?
Stallworth: Two names on your list work at NORAD.
Ron: The two mystery men, Steve and Jerry?
Stallworth: Real names are Harry Dricks and Kevin Nelson. Two clowns with top security clearances. These Klansmen are in charge of monitoring our safety. You’ve done a service to your country. We’ve been following your investigation. Impressive. Last night, Fort Carson reported several C-4 explosives missing from their armory. No suspects.
Ron: Klan? Wait, the KKK and the United States Army?
Stallworth [handing him a folder]: You won’t see this on the news for obvious reasons, but thought it might be of interest to you.
Ron: If you know about a possible attack, I need to know when.
Stallworth: You’re the one with the impressive investigation.
Ron: But can’t you or the FBI chip in? Sir?
Stallworth: FBI? Federal Bureau of Investigation? We never had this conversation.
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Ron: No one else can know while it’s an active investigation.
Patrice: Active investigation? And pray tell, how do you know that? Are you a pig?
Ron: No.
Patrice: Wh-What are you, then?
Ron: I’m an undercover detective. I’m investigating the Klan.
Patrice: Fucking KKK? Ron Stallworth, you lied to me. Is that even your real name?
Ron: Ron Stallworth is my first and last name. Look, today is not the day, Patrice.
Patrice: I take my duties as the president of the Black Student Union seriously.
Ron: Well, how much good did it do? You could sit in the middle of Nevada Avenue, light yourself on fire, the KKK will still be here.
Patrice: Well, at least I would be doing something, unlike you.
Ron: Unlike me? Don’t think, just because I don’t wear a black beret or a black leather jacket, black Ray-Bans, screaming, “Kill Whitey,” that I don’t care about my people.
Patrice: The night we saw Brother Kwame speak, were you undercover then, too?
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Ron: Mr. Duke. I’m a detective from the Colorado Springs Police Department. I’m here to keep you safe today.
Duke: I’m sorry, have…have we met before?
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Duke: Ron Stallworth, are you a white, non-Jewish American citizen?
Flip: Yes.
Duke: Yes…what?
Flip: Yes, I am a white, non-Jewish American citizen.
Duke: Are you in favor of a white man’s government in this country?
Flip: Yes.
Duke: Ron Stallworth, are you willing to dedicate your life to the protection, the preservation and the advancement of the white race in mind, in body - and in spirit?
Flip: Yes.
Duke: Be seated.
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Walker: He’s a cop.
Felix: Who?
Walker: That guy.
Felix: Ron?
Walker: No, the other guy.
Felix: Ron’s a cop?
Walker: His name is Phillip, but his nickname is Flip.
Felix: Who’s Phillip?
Walker: Who’s Ron? That’s Phillip.
Felix: What the fuck are you talking about?
Walker: That guy. That’s the cop that sent me to the fucking big house for armed fucking robbery. His fucking name is Phillip. Phillip Zimmerman.
Felix: Isn’t that a fucking Jew name?
Walker: You can’t go by that. Jews change their name all the time to non-Jew names. I mean, they killed Jesus, right?
Felix: Ron Stallworth is a fucking Jew.
Walker: Could’ve been worse.
Ferlix: How so?
Walker: Could’ve been a nigger.
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Duke; What was that all about? Why’d he keep calling you Flip?
Flip: We were in prison together. Years ago. Uh, it’s an inside joke.
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Patrice: How often do you do that to black people?
Landers: Do what?
Patrice: Pull us over for nothing. Harass us. Put your hands all over a woman in the guise of searching her. Call us everything but a child of God.
Landers: I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Ron: Just like I told you, right, he’s just taking advantage. In the end, talking loud, saying nothing.
Landers: Let me tell you both something. I’ve been keeping you people in line in this city for years. What I did to your girl that night, I could do to any of you any time, any place. That’s my prerogative. I could even bust a cap in your black ass if I feel like it, and nothing will be done about it. I wish the two of you been blown up instead of good white folks. Get it?
Ron [lifting up his shirt to reveal that he is wired]: Oh, I do get it. Do you get it, Patrice?
Patrice: Mmm, yeah. I totally and completely get it. Jimmy, did you get it?
Jimmy: Oh, yes, I got it. Flip, did you get it?
Flip: Oh, yeah, I got it. Chief! Do you get it?
Bridges: Oh, I really, really get it. Landers, you’re under arrest.
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Bridges: I need you, Ron Stallworth, to destroy all evidence of this investigation.
Ron: What?
Bridges: We prefer that the public never knew about this investigation.
Ron: Uh-huh.
Bridges: Cease all further contact with the Ku Klux Klan, effective immediately. That goes for you, too, Flip.
Flip: This is total horseshit.
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Duke [on the phone]: And then there was that nigger detective.
Ron: Those goddamn coloreds.
Duke: They sure know how to spoil a celebration.
Ron: Christ, you can say that again. Those goddamn coloreds sure know how to spoil a celebration. Can I ask you a question, sir?
Duke: Shoot.
Ron: That nigger detective, did you ever…did you ever get his name?
Duke: No. I don’t think I…
Ron: Are-uh you sure you don’t know who he is? Are-uh you absolutely sure? 'Cause that nigga, coon, gator bait, spade, spook, Sambo, spear-chucking jungle bunny, Mississippi wind chime…
Duke: Wind chime?
Ron: …detective is Ron Stallworth, you racist, peckerwood, redneck, inch worm, needle-dick motherfucker!
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Patrice: Have you handed in your resignation from the KKK?
Ron: Affirmative.
Patrice: Have you handed in your resignation from the Colorado Springs Police Department?
Ron: Negative. Truth be told, Patrice, I always wanted to be a cop, and I’m still for the liberation of my people.
Patrice: My conscience won’t let me sleep with the enemy.
Ron: Enemy? No, I’m the black man that saved your life.
Patrice: You’re absolutely right. And I thank you for it, but…I can’t do this.[/b]
Cut to Trump after clips of the Charlottesville protest…
[b]Trump: You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent…Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists. You also had people that were very fine people.
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Duke [at a rally]: Because I believe that today in Charlottesville, this is a first step toward making a realization of something that Trump alluded to earlier in the campaign, which is…this is the first step toward taking America back.[/b]