BlacKkKlansman may seem unbelievable, but it's actually based on the true story of Ron Stallworth, a Black police officer who infiltrated the KKK.
The Big Picture BlacKkKlansman is an undeniably great movie, one of Rotten Tomatoes highest-rated, with a critics consensus that reads: "BlacKkKlansman uses history to offer bitingly trenchant commentary on current events — and brings out some of Spike Lee's hardest-hitting work in decades along the way.
Months later, Stallworth would find himself the subject of another "first," the youngest and first Black undercover narcotics detective in the department's history. Part of his job entailed reading local newspapers, looking for hints of any suspicious activity. In 1978, Stallworth found something in his search that caught his eye: a classified ad for a local Ku Klux Klan chapter.
Another unbelievable, yet true, element in the film is Stallworth's communications with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard himself, David Duke. The two actually got along well, with Stallworth even describing the relationship as a "friendship, for lack of a better word," stating that, "once you took away the topic of white supremacy and KKK nonsense from discourse with Duke, he was a very pleasant conversationalist" .
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