DJANGO
Whatever weird dynamic of admiration/disrespect/fear that writer and director Quentin Jerome Tarantino may harbor for Blacks, particularly Black males, it’s clear that he definitely has a huge n-word obsession, which is solidified with this film and officially sealed with the final scene – which appears AFTER the closing credits. (Did he use kike – a Jewish derogatory racial slur – at all in “Inglourious Basterds”?) Because this derogatory racial slur, the n-word, is used in its historical context and in its original setting by the White people who created it, he succeeded in getting his fix to use it ad nauseam. Maybe now, some Blacks will understand the dehumanizing process that took place for over 200 years and the enslaved mindset that keeps too many of them fooled into using it so recklessly today. But with those facts aside, the main thing that makes this film worthy is that it shows a slice – really just a smidgen – of America’s history of chattel slavery and its centuries-long brutal treatment of Black people that’s not only rarely put on the screen but that is intentionally inaccurately told and greatly diluted through the entire educational system from grade school to post graduate studies to keep that extensive period of American history whitewashed.
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