“Anyone who says that Spike is trying to get back in the good graces [of the Jewish community] by making Flip Jewish – that’s a totally false narrative,” Lee said. Do-Gooder The response was so heated that Lee wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times titled “I Am Not an Anti-Semite.”, “I’m not a racist; I’m not a bigot; I am not an anti-Semite. A Klan member named Walter recognized Zimmerman as the man who had helped send him to prison. Ron Stallworth contains mature content that may include coarse language, sexual references, and/or graphic violent images which may be disturbing to some. It ended after Stallworth was offered the chance to become the leader of his local KKK chapter, as the police chief became worried that word would get out that the force had members in the KKK. This Hero was proposed and approved by Heroes Wiki's Pure Good Proposals Thread. So Ron enlists Flip to act as his in-person stand-in. Philip "Flip" Zimmerman was a Jewish-American policeman from Colorado Springs, Colorado.In 1979, he helped Ron Stallworth with his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan, posing as Stallworth in person as Stallworth contacted the Klan via telephone.. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Terms of Use “Jewish people are No. Police officer Specifically, Flip works in the intelligence division, handling undercover surveillance work. “Spike asked me to address the cast, to tell them my story firsthand, and then I had a Q&A with them,” he says. Phillip Zimmerman Never." After Stallworth was transferred to intelligence, Zimmerman was recruited in to Stallworth's operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. Zimmerman was able to meet with Duke and other Klan leaders at his initiation into the Klan. Lee has had a complicated history with the Jewish community dating back to his early years as a director in the 1980s. While most members of the Klan were friendly towards Zimmerman once he started spouting hate speech, the paranoid Felix Kendrickson kept harassing Zimmerman and tried to force him to take a "Jew Lie Detector Test" at gunpoint. “They laughed [because] Denzel was too old to play 25-year-old me.”, But Stallworth was onto something: The role eventually went to Denzel’s 34-year-old son, John David Washington. During meetings he learned that members of the US military were members of the Klan - including men who manned nuclear weapons consoles at NORAD. Family Zimmerman listened as Stallworth took a call from David Duke and laughed with approval when Stallworth informed Duke that he had been pranked into helping a black man join the Klan, and told Duke off. Once initiated, Zimmerman and Stallworth were ordered to end their investigation in to the Klan. That question is impossible to answer, because Flip Zimmerman doesn't exist... or at least, no one by that name exists as it relates to this story. Flip has been doing his job for a long time, and he’s learned to stay objective about the kind of surveillance work he does. Grew Up... in a Jewish family that mostly tried to assimilate with the Christian culture around them. Flip Zimmerman may not be an actual person, but the mystery man he's based on was an important contributor to what has to be considered as one of the wildest police operations in this nation's history. Full Name When black Colorado Springs Police Officer Ron Stallworth was assigned... Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
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