Tarantino compares War on Drugs to Slavery

[Street Knowledge]

Tarantino compares the War on Drugs to slavery - Salon.com

"Iconic film director Quentin Tarantino believes that US drug policy, and the subsequent mass incarceration of African Americans, is comparable to pre-Civil War slavery. In an interview about his latest movie—Django Unchained, which documents the story of a freed slave, played by Jamie Foxx—Tarantino points out that the hierarchies of racial injustice have shifted but not wholly improved. "This whole thing of...this 'War on Drugs,' and the mass incarcerations that have happened pretty much for the last 40 years has just decimated the black male population," says the filmmaker. "It's slavery...it's just slavery through and through, and it's just the same fear of the black male that existed back in the 1800s."*

 

[el_oh_el]

spot on. Might have more effect not coming from a black person as well.

 

[msims]

Though true, I feel like this was said only to get more skeptical blacks to watch his new flick. Kind of a clever marketing scheme.

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[cleanface coney]

these honkeys aint playin
look at they history
i dont see how people really think we safe n this country
racism dont go away it go underground

a white man making a slave-themed movie thinking he gotta opinion on black problems

shyt aint right all the way around

 

[TrueEpic08]

Though true, I feel like this was said only to get more skeptical blacks to watch his new flick. Kind of a clever marketing scheme.

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So, what's the rule of this board? Take everything at face value when it comes from a Black man, even when it represents the most odious and opulent of a repressively unequal society's construction of reality, while turning the phrases of everyone else until they can be cast into a negative light, including Black women?

a white man making a slave-themed movie thinking he gotta opinion on black problems

shyt aint right all the way around

So what's your rule on it? Whites aren't allowed to make art about or have an opinion on the history of Blacks in America? Does that apply reciprocally? With other cultures substituted?

The cultural insiderism of some people on this board and in the world at large is just ignorant and embarrassing. Creating false problems by applying standards where they either apply less or don't apply at all.

Just ridiculous, honestly.

 

[cleanface coney]

So, what's the rule of this board? Take everything at face value when it comes from a Black man, even when it represents the most odious and opulent of a repressively unequal society's construction of reality, while turning the phrases of everyone else until they can be cast into a negative light, including Black women?



So what's your rule on it? Whites aren't allowed to make art about or have an opinion on the history of Blacks in America? Does that apply reciprocally? With other cultures substituted?

The cultural insiderism of some people on this board and in the world at large is just ignorant and embarrassing. Creating false problems by applying standards where they either apply less or don't apply at all.

Just ridiculous, honestly.

naw i actually wasnt dissing his argument
i just think its weird that a white man makes a movie about slavery and has such a strong opinion on it
nothing wrong wit what he said

i just think its weird imo

 

[Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson]

spot on. Might have more effect not coming from a black person as well.

qettin tarntino is jess anuther librul holliwoo ileet who feel whie gilt and want to replase murican valyoos wit soshalism becuh he hate murica.

da reel moder day slavry is da rashal oppesshun dat whies face on a daily basis now. whies are skare to speek da truf about blas becuh dey kno dey will be call raciss. dey have to live in feer and silens. dey cant get jobs enimore becuh of affurmtive atshun. dey work harr only to have dere munney stolen from dem by da govermin so dat blas can buy gold teef malt licker and 20 inch rims fuh dey cadillacs. and dey cant walk da streets and feel safe becuh of gangs uh blas high on crack shootin ak47s and rapin whie womin.

whies have been in slavry sins da 60s. al sharpen and jesse jatson are da new plantashun ovaseyers and barah oboomba is da new jefferson davis.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Yea he better start spitting some truths in light of this demonic film hes about to release that is going to have people furious.

 

[Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson]

Yea he better start spitting some truths in light of this demonic film hes about to release that is going to have people furious.

i ugree dat dis raciss moovy look asolootly sickenin. i think whies shood boykot it and i think qettin tarntino shood face charjes fuh obsennity.

if I woch dis crap I wood prolly have to woch birf uh a nashun aftawerd to get rid uh da nawzia.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

i ugree dat dis raciss moovy look asolootly sickenin. i think whies shood boykot it and i think qettin tarntino shood face charjes fuh obsennity.

if I woch dis crap I wood prolly have to woch birf uh a nashun aftawerd to get rid uh da nawzia.

I agree with you, friend.

 

[The Real]

i ugree dat dis raciss moovy look asolootly sickenin. i think whies shood boykot it and i think qettin tarntino shood face charjes fuh obsennity.

if I woch dis crap I wood prolly have to woch birf uh a nashun aftawerd to get rid uh da nawzia.

I agree with you, friend.

 

[MostReal]

qettin tarntino is jess anuther librul holliwoo ileet who feel whie gilt and want to replase murican valyoos wit soshalism becuh he hate murica.

da reel moder day slavry is da rashal oppesshun dat whies face on a daily basis now. whies are skare to speek da truf about blas becuh dey kno dey will be call raciss. dey have to live in feer and silens. dey cant get jobs enimore becuh of affurmtive atshun. dey work harr only to have dere munney stolen from dem by da govermin so dat blas can buy gold teef malt licker and 20 inch rims fuh dey cadillacs. and dey cant walk da streets and feel safe becuh of gangs uh blas high on crack shootin ak47s and rapin whie womin.

whies have been in slavry sins da 60s. al sharpen and jesse jatson are da new plantashun ovaseyers and barah oboomba is da new jefferson davis.

man I love this troll

 

[Fillerguy]

He's trying his best to stamp out the n-word criticism before his film drops. So far its working but Im not buying it Lucas turned pro Black too when his Flying Negro film came out also.

 

[Master Teacher]

He's trying his best to stamp out the n-word criticism before his film drops. So far its working but Im not buying it Lucas turned pro Black too when his Flying Negro film came out also.

how can white characters using the word the ****** be nothing less than historically accurate.

 

[jwinfield]

He's trying his best to stamp out the n-word criticism before his film drops. So far its working but Im not buying it Lucas turned pro Black too when his Flying Negro film came out also.

I thought Lucas turned pro black when he got his black girlfriend.