By: Michael Arceneaux Last month, Spike Lee recorded a video response to critics of the trailer for his latest film, Chi-Raq. In the eyes of the acclaimed director, “a lot of people are judging the film on a two minute and thirty second trailer.” Lee subsequently released a separate, more somber trailer for the movie being sold as “satire,” only his recent press had done little to alleviate fears that he was essentially going to make a shit-show out of the very serious situation that is the ongoing violence in Chicago. This includes Lee telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he’s “all for Black Lives Matter,” but “we as a people can’t be blind to” black-on-black crime. To Lee, “We cannot be out...
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