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Location: On the "Left Coast", somewhere in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"
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Am not a huge Tarantino fan, but folks into movies know that Django is a mash-up of styles (spaghetti western, blaxsploitation, etc.), which takes lotsa artistic license, and shouldnt be taken too seriously. Besides, anyone who can increase the dialogue about race in this country is fine with me.
And yes, way more important than using the 'N' word, is the state of our prison systems, even in places like ''enlightened'' California, which only recently started releasing prisoners who have been in soiitary confinement for 20 years (think cooped up in your closet... let alone for that long)!
That's quite a leap in logic. I'm all for legalization, don't get me wrong, but how is people being sent to prison for something ILLEGAL a form of slavery???
When I think of modern-day slavery, I think about human trafficking women and children for sex/labor, not people being imprisoned for breaking the law (however asinine those laws may be) .
And whatever Tarantino says about anything is completely irrelevant IMO
Taking someones freedom when they have done nothing immoral or wrong is slavery. In any case, Tarantino didn't use the n word as he described the prison system, the title is false.
Well the constitution says you can be enslaved if you have been convicted of a crime. So I guess he has a point. Maybe he can house the criminals in his locality at his house?
You can't, which is why the Democrats try to shut down discussions all the time by calling you racist.
I've heard this a lot so I ask, how does some one calling you a racist, shut down the discussion. It would seem to me that such an accusation would open the discussion, not close it.
QT makes B movies that have a small but loyal cult following. I watched Django only because I down loaded it from a torrent so it was free. I don't give money to Hollywood. It was soooo bad I can't even begin. First off people had cartridge guns and Henry lever action which were hard to get by the north during the civil war not to mention was not even available to the south, or at that time at all. Blood spurt out like someone was just off screen throwing buckets of red stuff every time someone was shot. The story was sophomoric even for QT. BTW I liked [in a guilty pleasure kind of way ] Pulp Fiction and Reservoir dogs. But this was just a POS. QT put himself in the movie as some Aussie slave trader or some such thing. It was just horrible. I know the devotees will say it was great but QT could take a dump on a place and they would eat it up and ask for more.
Location: On the "Left Coast", somewhere in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"
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Dunno about anyone else, but I have white southern-born relatives in AL, GA and FL, and they still seem to use that word alot... privately & among themselves!!
Modern day black people call one another the n-word all the time.
Reappropriation. It's a thing.
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