US Director Spike Lee has drawn with his words at the Oscars the wrath of U.S. President Donald Trump . Trump accused the African-American Oscar winner, to have him “racist” attacks. He did more for the black minority than “almost any other” U.S. President before him, wrote Trump on Monday in the short message service Twitter.

Lee had been awarded, on the eve of his racism-Satire “BlacKkKlansman” best screenplay based on a book template. In his acceptance speech, the 61-Year-old spoke about the history of slavery in America, and appealed to the voters to do in the presidential election of 2020, “the Right thing”.

allusion to Mr President

Trump, the Director was called at the name. His appeal to the citizens of the US, “to make the moral choice between love against hate”, however, was an obvious allusion to the President, whose rhetoric and administration, has deepened the political and social Polarizations.

Lee has committed to in his work over the decades, the fight against racism. It was the first Time that he sat in the Oscar competition. So far he had received only an honorary Oscar-an award outside of the competition, this was four years ago.

(nlu/afp)

Created: 25.02.2019, 23:43 PM