My favorite example of protest art is the 2018 Drama/Crime film BlacKkKlansman by Spike Lee. I saw this movie in theatres with my dad when it first came out, as he is a big Spike Lee fan. BlacKkKlansman was the first time I had seen any Spike Lee Joint, and I was quite skeptical going into the theatre at first. However, after seeing the movie, my mind was blown. BlacKkKlansman is about a black Colorado police officer by the name of Ron Stallworth who was hired in order to infiltrate the Black Panther Party. Later on in the movie, however, Stallworth gets transferred to the intelligence division of the department, and eventually has a run in with the KKK. In the movie, Ron makes a phone call to the local KKK chapter posing as a white man, and from there is involved in infiltrating the Klan. The movie itself has a lot of commentary on things such as the relationship between the police and the black community, police brutality, radical racism, anti-semitism, the view of the Black Panther Party (were they terrorists or just people simply fighting for justice), and many other political topics that are still relevant to society. The best part of the movie however, was the very last ending scene. At the end of the movie, after Ron exposes himself to David Duke, and the other Klan members in Colorado, a cross is burned outside of Ron’s house. That scene then slowly phases out to another horrid scene, the white supremacists marching with tiki torches at the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia back in 2017. The screen then flashes to the other horrific events of that day such as car attack that killed Heather Heyer. These scenes compare the state of the country to the 1970s where BlacKkKlansman took place to the modern day, and make commentary on how the mindset of many people, and in some ways, the country itself, has not changed since 50 years ago. Spike Lee himself said that BlacKkKlansman was a movie protesting Donald Trump and his presidency and even said, “We had to connect David Duke to Agent Orange today.” All in all, BlacKkKlansman is one of my favorite pieces of protest art, and in fact, I will probably be watching the movie again sometime over break.