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    Now is Chi-Raq's Time!

    I just wanted to promote an underappreciated film that's time has come, I believe. Originally released in late 2015, Chi-Raq is, in my opinion, director Spike Lee's finest work. It offers a masterfully-crafted and perversely fun look at the intersection of gun violence with racial oppression and the social construct that is masculinity: an intersection that has been raised anew by the recent March For Our Lives.

    It's a rhythmic story about the issue of gun violence in Chicago's South Side. The tale revolves around a group of women who organize a sex strike demanding that the gangs put down their weapons. The strike soon expands worldwide until finally world peace is achieved through global disarmament. It's quite awesome. One of my all-time favorite movies.

    Unfortunately, it's release met with the wrong timing, right in the middle of the Black Lives Matter movement, so it didn't catch on at the time. But with the recent March For Our Lives yielding the largest turnout of any protest event in American history, I think Chi-Raq's time has come! Wanted to promote the movie anew as relevant to our current national dialogue about gun violence and how it relates to other issues of social injustice. Here's a trailer:

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    Hollywood is feeding your sci-fi imagination. It will never happen.
    lack of pu55y does not equal peace. E V E R..............
    Spike Lee, isn't he living outside the US because of back taxes owed to the IRS?
    For waltky: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
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    There was a time in my life where I probably would have watched this movie. But I've grown weary of Hollywood elites lecturing me and trying to convert me to their political agenda. It's beyond tiresome at this point. I also refuse to watch movies about WWII or the Holocaust.
    Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
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    The plot is based on an ancient Greek comedy entitled Lysistrata.
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    Mister D wrote:
    The plot is based on an ancient Greek comedy entitled Lysistrata.
    I know! Best. Adaptation. Ever.

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