"David Duke Called Us Out By Name": BlacKkKlansman Screenwriters Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz

When I went to see BlacKkKlansman earlier this summer, I was startled to completely lost it two minutes in. The opening scene is a fire-breathing racist monologue by Alec Baldwin as a segregationist leader. I knew the premise of the film -- the true story of how black police officer Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) infiltrated a Colorado branch of the KKK with the help of a white partner, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), in the late ’70s -- and figured a fair amount of racist invective woul...