Django is the perfect mirror of what we’ve been going through, as a nation, over the past 4-years, with Birthers slinging a subtext of racism at President Obama and violent school shootings being treated like video games, except our children don’t reboot after they’re gunned-down.
You could argue about a word being inappropriate. You could argue about lack of strength in the female characters. You could argue about historical accuracy. You could argue about gratuitous violence. You could argue about Leonardo DiCaprio’s mistaken assumption that yelling is acting. But you’d be missing what’s really going on here.
This is a masterpiece of storytelling, genre and good ole fashion fun. Travis Smiley and Spike Lee should go see Django. And then apologize.
Nigger isn’t Nigger, not in this movie, not in this blog. It’s never been about the word. It’s always been about how the word is used, even when the word is not being used, especially when the word is not being used.
Case In Point: Birthers never said it; Donald Trump never said it; Ted Nugent never said it, even as he threatened to be in jail or dead if President Obama got a second term. Incidentally, President Obama got a second term. I don’t see Ted Nugent in an orange jump suit. So please, send me the address of his grave, since I’d like to go dancing.
Django showed us how the eyes look when they first take-in a Nigger on a horse. Django showed us how the eyes look when they have to process a Nigger sleeping in The Big House. Django showed us how the eyes look when they have to contend with a Nigger sassing back.
Thank you, Django. The guts!
Barack showed us how the eyes look when they first take-in a Nigger on Air Force One. Barack showed us how the eyes look when they have to process a Nigger sleeping in The White House. Barack showed us how the eyes look when they have to contend with a Nigger nominating Chuck Hagel.
Thank you, Barack. In your face, Senator Graham!
Nigger isn’t Nigger. Not in this moment, not in this world, not anymore. It’s not about the word. It’s never been about the word. It’s about the eyes. The word is obvious, too obvious.
It’s the eyes, they betray intent.
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Ten people shot and killed in Chicago’s first week of 2013. Go to love those guns.
A single violent Saturday in Chicago left three people dead—including one man police say was shot more than 15 times—as the homicide rate gets off to a troubling start in the new year.
The day got off to a bloody start with a another homicide in Humboldt Park where a 25-year-old River Grove man was shot in the chest around 7 a.m.
Ten more people were injured in single-day shootings around the city, said the Sun-Times in a separate report. Shootings were dispersed throughout Chicago Saturday, even including areas like Irving Park that don’t normally see gun violence.
A 22-year-old man killed in an expressway shooting in the early hours of Sunday morning marked Chicago’s 10th homicide within the first week of 2013.
Put cameras in all the schools of America, from elementary right on up to college. We get-off on gunning-down kids, so let’s take it to the next level: tune-in to watch them beg for their lives.
By the way, at the hand of God’s Merciful Glock, as of December 28th, the number dead, for the year 2012, in Chicago, reached 500. And there was still 3-days to go before 2013.
Amen.
I’m not sure if I believe in God, but I certainly invoke his (or her) name in times of extreme stress. I may believe that maybe he (or she) had bigger plans for Gabby than just being a politician. I will definately pray that Gabby and her husband Mark Kelly are succesful in bringing this ungodly, unholy weapons problem in this county to some kind of positive result! God knows, the majority of this country want some resolution!
Went to the vigil for Gabby Giffords when she was shot. I happened to be in Arizona and was overwhelmed by the sadness of a woman, younger than myself, who was serving her community, ending-up shot in the face at Safeway.
I cried. And promised myself it would be the last tear I shed over gun violence, since we’re in love with it. I broke my promise as I watched President Obama address the nation after the horror of Sandy Hook.
There have been 31 school shootings since Columbine, that’s 31 bloody dots connecting Columbine to Sandy Hook.
My question is this: how many more?
It’s clear, if you saw the interview with Alex Jones on Piers Morgan, there are adults who have lost their minds, abdicating their adulthood to play with dangerous toys: bang-bang shoot-shoot.
I don’t believe in God. But I believe in kindness. And trying. I also believe in Concealed Carry, until the madness ends.
Here’s hoping it ends soon, God willing.
Thanks for posting this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU_43SwWD9A
Here is partly what Alex Jones was talkng about when he mentioned foreknowledge of police and firemen that Building 7 was going to be demolished (end of interview).
There is an actual countdown I have heard years ago but could not find that video anymore. There is also a video of a BBC Reporter saying Building 7 has been demolished while in the background, Building 7 was right there.
Something went wrong with Building 7. It was supposed to fall probably much sooner. For some reason, they felt they needed to demolish the building. No plane hit that building and that was the emrgency command center, which was made to withstand 212 MPH Winds.
So the fact that elements within our Govt killed 3000 of its own citizens, including Larry Beck, who lived across the street from me growing up. Sad thing is his mother hates Arabs because of it. I think this constitutes a tyranical Govt and makes the 2nd Amendment very relevant.
I am heartened by Obama appointing an anti-war defense secretary. I hope he has the guts not to back down because the neocons and Israeli interests are going to try and bring him down.
I really hope Obama surprises me more in this term. This is a good start. I only pray I was wrong about him.
I do not know Alex Jones personally. So I do not know his agenda. But calling out The Bush Admin for committing 911 on CNN is more than any other reporter has the balls to do.
It doesn’t take balls when you’re crazy. All it takes is a microphone and raising your voice.
As for Building 7, let go, Steven. Can’t believe you’re still hung-up on that shit.
I was there when we were attacked. Lots of people living in New York felt the way you feel. But we got over it, so we could get on with our lives.
I’d love for there to be an International War Crimes Tribunal. The Bush Administration needs to be tried, for sure. But they’re not the problem, not really.
We’re the problem: We The People. Let’s not forget, we allowed George W. Bush a 2nd Term. How fucking stupid. How fucking sad. We’re fucking stupid and sad.
As for the 2nd Amendment, if you really think arming yourself is the way to overthrow the government, I’d say it’s time for you to start emptying out all the cans of Creamed Corn from your Y2K Bunker.
Alex Jones needs help, not a microphone.
Hundred of billions of dollars in treasury notes; trillions of dollars war profits; cover-ups of near complete investigations into money laundering and racketering, the likes of which had never been dreamed of; are just a few of the reasons 911 happened. Watch this video if you dare:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDoQtwIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dn_fp5kaVYhk&ei=GJbsUOP4E46c9QSPx4GgAg&usg=AFQjCNGUujARbyuEKLDN0o-a7zOGzEo-SA
And THIS VIDEO is proof!
Steve, here is the motherload!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWZELJA_fSU
That’s the Motherload. You got that right!
The question I have for you, Vince, is how do I un-see what I just watched? I’m poisoned with victimhood conspiracy nonsense.
As if all we can do is shop, tune-in, pretend Diet Coke is slimming and hope for the best. Instead of putting ourselves out there. Instead of doing something about it.
Listen, your pubes are turning grey, your time is now, your time is yesterday after work, do something, do anything, besides watching another fucking video on youtube.
That is to say, besides this video on youtube:
http://goo.gl/8ittD
And also, Silverstein purcashed the WTC site in 2001 for $3.5 billion, putting $100 million down. He took out insurance for $7 Billion, specifically taking out terrorist attack coverage. The bulidings were filled with aspestos and needed to be completely overhauled, floor by for, for billions of dollars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ayWWpWYZs
I’m not clicking on the link. I’m not clicking on the link. Damn it, I just clicked on the link.
And in this video, 30 sec long so don’t sweat, you can actually see the charges going off in a straight line up the building. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=972ETepp4GI&feature=fvwp
I have to say God Bless Alex Jones.
I always thought this man was a fruitcake but he raped Communist Piers Morgan’s ass! One of the best interviews of all times. I am surprised it slipped past the censors it must have been live otherwise the Bolshevik press wouldn’t have aired it. GO ALEX!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWQPZ-taYBs
That is the saddest interview I have ever witnessed. Alex Jones needs help, not a microphone.
Andy loses any small bit of credibility he ever had. Even NRA and gun lovers have come out against his crazy rant and has distanced themselves from him. Man needs serious help!
Only radical, racist, angry, mean, white, sociopaths would think Alex Jones was correct, good or justified.
Say hello to Andy.
If Alex got under Vince’s skin I like him even better. And move to a more integrated area and we’ll talk racism you phony.
How about James Yeager, the sissy who threatened to start “killing people” if they took away his precious guns. What’s with James Yeager and Alex Jones? Why are they such sissies?
If they’re so convinced they’re living in tyranny, go ahead, list your grievances, declare your independence and start a war. You don’t ask for permission to overthrow a tyrant. You have at it.
But first, you have to walk away from your cushy job as a radio host, Alex. And stop posting bizarre, angry infomercials masquerading as 2nd Amendment Rants on YouTube, James.
Saw Django Unchained. Wonderful movie, maybe Tarantinos best so far. Saw it with 2 other couples and everyone thought it was great. Christoph Waltz if my pick for best supporting actor. He is as good here as he was in “Inglorious Bastards.” Is the “N” word overused? Absolutely not. That is how they thought and how they talked back then. Mans inhumanity to man is everywhere! And it continues today! Black, gay, muslim, jew.
The 2008 Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller shows that the Second Amendment is about an archaic issue relevant to 1790, not to 2012. The Second Amendment reads:
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
The purpose of the Second Amendment was to prevent the new Federal Government established in 1789 from disarming the state militias and replacing them with a Federal standing army. It was a concern that was relevant perhaps for a few years around the birth of the country. It is irrelevant today. Americans do not rely on state militias in 2012 for our freedom from the federal government.
Though Justice Antonin Scalia tried in the majority opinion to use the Second Amendment to defend gun rights, the many sources that he cited are clear that the purpose of the amendment was to protect state militias. One source, for example, declares, that the purpose of the Second Amendment is “to secure a well-armed militia… .” Another source Scalia cited indicates that the amendment covers only arms that “have some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia.”
Therefore, Scalia acknowledges that the Second Amendment — even in his pro-gun interpretation — only protects arms that would be used in a militia, not the weapons of a formal army. He makes clear that “M-16 rifles and the like” have no Second Amendment protection and may be banned.
There is thus no constitutional protection whatsoever for the semiautomatic rifle that killed the kids in Newtown. Even Scalia is explicit on that point.
The Second Amendment is a relic of the founding era more than two centuries ago. Its purpose is long past. As Justice John Paul Stevens argues persuasively, the amendment should not block the ability of society to keep itself safe through gun control legislation. That was never its intent. This amendment was about militias in the 1790s, and the fear of the anti-federalists of a federal army. Since that issue is long moot, we need not be governed in our national life by doctrines on now-extinct militias from the 18th century.
More basically, the idea that unregulated private gun ownership and trade protects us against tyranny, or that gun controls would threaten tyranny to us all, is baseless. Democracies around the world regulate guns, preserve their freedoms, and achieve firearm murder rates that are a tiny fraction of the rates suffered in the United States. Other countries, like Australia, have made themselves much safer from gun massacres. Only the U.S. has a political class, on the take from gun manufacturers owned by Wall Street, that stands by while the nation’s children are slaughtered. Yet perhaps the stench is getting even too great for some on Wall Street.
In the name of the children, let us wake from the trap of ancient history and the gun-manufacturers.
Well written and perfectly easy for all to understand. If even Scalia calls for some kind of regulation, why not the men and women of Congress? It is time for all American citizens to make a list and act upon it, with their VOTES, if gun safety and gun regulation fails to pass because of the money put into certain members of Congress by the NRA. No one voted the NRA that kind of power, and 74% of NRA members want gun clips that shoot 30 bullets in 6 seconds outlawed on our streets as well as some kind of ban against assault weapons! 74% of NRA members!!! IT IS TIME!!!
And to think that the 2nd Amendment means that the right to bears arms “canot be regulated or limited,” is simply wrong. The 1st Amendment says: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” This also sounds absolute. But does the First Amendment mean that the government cannot constitutionally regulate speech?
Justice Holmes said “the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.” Even an idiot like Andy can see that even though the text of the First Amendment sounds absolute, it is not.
But how can this be so? Doesn’t the text mean what it says? Here’s the catch: Even though it is true that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech,” we still have to define what we mean by “the freedom of speech” that Congress may not abridge. The phrase “the freedom of speech,” in other words, is not self-defining. And as Justice Holmes demonstrated with his hypothetical, it does not cover an individual who falsely shouts “fire!”in a crowded theater.
Further, the Supreme Court has long-held that the government may regulate speech in a many situations. People ca be punished for defamation, or for threats, or for selling child porn, for inciting murder, for leaking confiedntial info, for blasting a radio too late at night, for using ceratin words on TV, etc. etc etc.
Although the 1st Amendment seems absolute in its protection of “the freedom of speech,” the Supreme Court has shows us that it does not guarantee us the right to say whatever we want, whenever we please, wherever we please, in whatever manner we chose. The “freedom of speech” is subject to regulation.
The same is of course true of the Second Amendment. Even if we agree that the Second Amendment forbids the government to “infringe” the right to “keep and bear arms,” that does not mean that the government cannot reasonably regulate the manufacture, sale, ownership and possession of firearms. Just as there is no First Amendment right to falsely yell fire in a crowded theatre, there is no Second Amendment right to carry an AK-47 there.
Thank you, Vince. Thank you for that. There’s an irrational thread running through man-children that there’s an invisible threat out there, an evil doer, who’s going to take away their precious guns only to turn them over to communism. Even though, I get the feeling, they can say the word communism, they can spell the word communism, but they have no idea what it means, other than using it as an imaginary boogie man.
The further away we get from the shooting at Sandy Hook, the easier it becomes to pretend everything is best left alone.
I found proof that the entire Sandyhook shooting was a hoax, perpetrated by our governmeent to seize our guns.
http://gawker.com/5976204/behind-the-sandy-hook-truther-conspiracy-video-that-five-million-people-have-watched-in-one-week
Some lowlife is posting under my name.