I think Mel is genuinely concerned they were going to come for Blazing Saddles.
On the surface saying that “hey black people matter” may seem like a older liberal position. But when you know BLM’s Marxist and antisemitic rhetoric, you realize that it is a shield name like “antifascist”.
“Well HOW can you be against THAT”.
A decade ago the hipster Left came after Ralph Bakashi calling him a racist at a retrospective screening at the Alamo Drafthouse where he’d been invited to speak.