(CNN)If all the protests, Jesse Jackson appearances and Rahm Emanuel promises haven't curtailed the systematic destruction of communities in my hometown on West and South sides of Chicago, then can Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" make a difference? When I learned that Spike Lee was doing "Chi-Raq" I was skeptical. I thought, "Why would one of my heroes glorify a moniker that is associated with the destruction of Chicago?" Yet he has a history of groundbreaking films that changed America and the world and my own life. Aaron Arnold From "Do the Right Thing" to "Malcolm X" to "School Daze," these films inspired and introduced the world to the beauty and struggle of the African-American plight in America....
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