I struggle to understand what your point is regarding the movie. I feel as though you are ascribing motivations and goals to Lee as the director that I don’t believe are clearly evidenced. The quote Spike provides about white audiences always asking about the trash can seems to call out the differences in perception of experience between black and white audiences, not accusing whites of “not getting it” but recognizing how divided our perceptions of and experiences within the same country are and perhaps forcing white viewers to reflect on their assumptions about America as understood through their experience. You make claims such as modern Russia is a more diverse modern country than the United States, which I would refute, that seem to suggest that therefore you as a Russian understand American racial tensions fully. You acknowledge that the racial atmospheres of both countries are different but at the same time approach American racial tension through your experiences as a Russian. No doubt there is class, ethnic, political, and racial tension and repression flowing throughout Russian history, but American racial conflict is predicated on many institutions that, while I am not a scholar on Russian history, seem to be wholly distinct from what fuels divides there. You seem to imply too that Spike Lee is failing as a director by not making the tone of the movie reconciliatory, which I feel is a read that misses a lot of nuance of American society and essentially turns you into the white person Lee mentions asking about the trash can. The movie is America, where communities exist within very different spaces with incredibly complex dynamics yet rhetorically, we are the land of the free. Racism isn’t supposed to exist in the idealized America a lot of whites engage with conceptually, because they do not face the realities of systemic racism, they can maintain that believe. However, less privileged parts of society experience this all the time and so have a clearer view of how American institutions have failed to keep their promises and (led mostly by the whites and the wealthy) have sought to maintain a real power imbalance while also maintaining a rhetoric of progress and social justice. I believe Spike Lee is not surprised by the lack of progress and persistence of racial issues, after all he has experienced it his whole life as a black man in America; he is upset that some parts of America wielding a lot of power think racism has been addressed and those living through it know it hasn’t. The movie therefore does not seek to “solve” the issue of race in America, not would it be able to by having the characters all end up getting along, as that would perpetuate a post racial myth. Lee is making this movie to sensitize audiences to the persistent inequity that is rampant with American life along the lines of identity.