I watched Jamie Fox in his new movie Django last night and I loved it, it was a story about a black slave in America, in the nineteenth century who decided to fight back against enormous odds, the people that stole his wife and his freedom.
There was plenty of blood and guts flying, the movie was violent and there was plenty of injustice to go around. Now the question is, why are some on the right and the left so upset about this movie?
We have some black community leaders upset about the production of this film, and Spike Lee has gone public with his opposition against the movie. Is it because Quentin Tarantino directed it?, I can't read into the minds of the folks that didn't approve of the movie, but what I do know is, it's not because there was blood and guts in this movie, we've had hundreds of blood and gut movies in the past. Gone With The Wind had plenty of blood and guts.
My take away on the disagreements with this film are simple, a lot of white people were killed by a black slave, a lot! that's upsetting to some.
Watching this film with a interracial group could be unnerving to say the least, the movie touched on the ever so real and dark elements in human nature when it comes to ownership of another human being.
Rape, murder, robbery, all of the things that minorities reap the max in the judicial system for today. All of the things that are practiced by an element of people that feel blacks are non human, and these things are not being carried out on a feeling, caring specimen were on display in this movie.
Dehumanization has always been the method of operation when it came to slavery, when a black man, who feels lost of freedom and lost of family decided to take action, violent action against the people that stood in his way, blood and guts started flying all over the place.
Of course there was the one white stranger, the German bounty hunter who became Django's friend and teacher that demonstrated some elements of humanity, he didn't care what color you were, if you had a price on your head, he was going to blow it off.
Now that sounds crazy but it's true, if your a killer that doesn't discriminate in your job of hunting down criminals and " bringing them to justice" you might get by as a hero, but a person that kills people for no other reason other than the color of their skin, well,.. you my friend are a American, the kind of American that lives and breaths today, in 2013, that feels it's okay to injure, harm, hurt and yes even kill a person because of the color of their skin. Now this deep seeded conviction isn't segregated to just one culture, both whites and blacks share in this distinction.
Here's my life long problem with this hereditary value, I'm bi-racial, so I guess I should find something else to do when it comes to hurting someone because of their color, I figure I'll wait and see if I can get along with them first.
There was plenty of blood and guts flying, the movie was violent and there was plenty of injustice to go around. Now the question is, why are some on the right and the left so upset about this movie?
We have some black community leaders upset about the production of this film, and Spike Lee has gone public with his opposition against the movie. Is it because Quentin Tarantino directed it?, I can't read into the minds of the folks that didn't approve of the movie, but what I do know is, it's not because there was blood and guts in this movie, we've had hundreds of blood and gut movies in the past. Gone With The Wind had plenty of blood and guts.
My take away on the disagreements with this film are simple, a lot of white people were killed by a black slave, a lot! that's upsetting to some.
Watching this film with a interracial group could be unnerving to say the least, the movie touched on the ever so real and dark elements in human nature when it comes to ownership of another human being.
Rape, murder, robbery, all of the things that minorities reap the max in the judicial system for today. All of the things that are practiced by an element of people that feel blacks are non human, and these things are not being carried out on a feeling, caring specimen were on display in this movie.
Dehumanization has always been the method of operation when it came to slavery, when a black man, who feels lost of freedom and lost of family decided to take action, violent action against the people that stood in his way, blood and guts started flying all over the place.
Of course there was the one white stranger, the German bounty hunter who became Django's friend and teacher that demonstrated some elements of humanity, he didn't care what color you were, if you had a price on your head, he was going to blow it off.
Now that sounds crazy but it's true, if your a killer that doesn't discriminate in your job of hunting down criminals and " bringing them to justice" you might get by as a hero, but a person that kills people for no other reason other than the color of their skin, well,.. you my friend are a American, the kind of American that lives and breaths today, in 2013, that feels it's okay to injure, harm, hurt and yes even kill a person because of the color of their skin. Now this deep seeded conviction isn't segregated to just one culture, both whites and blacks share in this distinction.
Here's my life long problem with this hereditary value, I'm bi-racial, so I guess I should find something else to do when it comes to hurting someone because of their color, I figure I'll wait and see if I can get along with them first.
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