AdvertisementSpike Lee: Black People Have 'Been Fighting For This Country From Day One'June 15, 2020Noel KingVince PearsonfacebookEmailSpike Lee's latest film, Da 5 Bloods, follows four black veterans as they return to Vietnam. African Americans have been fighting and dying for the U.S. from the outset, Lee says — just look at Crispus Attucks, the first American killed in the Revolutionary War. Lee is pictured above in Beverly Hills in February 2019. (Invision/AP)