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The N-Word and Black and White Viewers
People are quick to point out that given the time period when "Django Unchained" takes place, the frequent use of "ni****r" is "realistic." Perhaps, but why is it permissible for films to bludgeon and bombard Black audiences with "realistic" racist venom while at the same time sparing white viewers from "realistic" racial bile targeting whites.
In "Mississippi Burning" whites refer to Blacks as "n***ers" almost 20 times throughout that movie. Whites also go on a rampage beating up Blacks, bombing their homes, lynching a Black man, castrating a teen and so on. Black viewers are hit with scene after scene after scene of these horrors. In response to this savagery a Black teen informs a group of Blacks standing where a house once stood, that one day they'll be able to call the white sheriff "Stuckey" instead of "Mr. Stuckey." In another scene a Black pastor says he's sick of attending funerals of Black men killed by white men. That's the extent to which white viewers are subjected to the Black communities reaction to this barbarity. White filmmakers hamstring Black characters from targeting whites with racially derogatory comments even when the racial insults are "realistic." The filmmakers bypass this type of realism because they don't want to jar white audiences with images of Blacks voicing ugly truths about whites. When it comes to race, the movie industry honors the feelings and humanity of white viewers. In contrast, it flogs Black viewers with racism and slurs as if we're subhuman. That's a pattern in a staggering number of films. It's a racial assault double standard and it is unconscionable. I'm not making a case for abusing white viewers, but I am making a case for Black viewers receiving similar consideration.
Here are only a few of a disturbingly large number of films that assault Black characters, and by extension Black viewers, with excessive slurs:
Movie Title # of Black Slurs # of White Slurs
Blazing Saddles -1974 20 Nigger (Mostly) 0
Bad Boys II - 2003 14 Nigga 0
40-Year-Old Virgin - 2005 15 N***a 0
Cotton Club - 1984 16 N***er 1 Fay
Crash - 2005 10 N***er (Mostly) 3 Cracker
Dirty - 2005 47 N***er 1 I hate whites
Edmond - 2005 15 N***er, Coon, Spade, etc. 0
Jackie Brown - 1997 38 N***er 0
Mississippi Burning - 1988 21 N***er (Mostly) 0
Pulp Fiction - 1994 14 N***er 0
This is an excerpt from “Permissible Cruelty: The Cinematic Assault on the Black Race.” This book is slated to be published as an e-book in January 2013.
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Comment by Lola Monroe on January 1, 2013 at 8:01pm -
Jack, there's that aspect of "cracker" too. That it doesn't evoke a memory of a time when whites were considered subhuman and that one could brutalize and kill them with impunity. "Cracker" doesn't have an even remotely similar sting. The n-bomb launched from the mouths of non-Blacks has been verbal TNT.
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Comment by Lola Monroe on January 1, 2013 at 7:46pm
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Dr. Horrible I accidently deleted one of your responses. I'm a newbie, but anyway, I didn't say "Django" was a good or bad movie, I just said it contained a lot of n-bombs.
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Comment by jack burton on January 1, 2013 at 7:45pm
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Does anyone think calling a white person cracker has any sting to it at all? I don't think so. Chris Rock may use it, but there's no past relation with the word that puts any weight behind it. White people are referred to as white first, and it's up to them to share their cultue. The color of their skin isn't even a thought. It's easy to just not even think about their own color and just be a person. For dark skinned people, it's the color of their skin first, and culture or nationality as an afterthought. So dark skinned people get the slurs first, and the put downs second, and white people get put downs first and slurs second. Nobody walks around passing for black!!! You can hide your culture nationality or religion. Color... skin, eyes, hair, these are the things we devide ourselves over first. This is the truth that is America, and it's made even more clear through our art. The reason you have an uneven scale, is the fact that you can't find an equal counterweight.
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Comment by Lola Monroe on January 1, 2013 at 7:41pm
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Hmmm! One movie that contains "cracker quite a few times." If you have white skin I guess this must be reeeeellly jarring for you. This barrage of slurs targeting Blacks transcends entertainment. It's dangerous propaganda. I'm not trying to convince you to dislike Django.
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Comment by Santos on January 1, 2013 at 7:26pm -
You obviously haven't seen Rosewood. That movie uses the the word "cracker" quite a few times. I don't know exactly how much though seeing as I'm not one of those people who spends his time watching a movie to count how many times something is said or shown. I just watch the fucking movie with the hopes of either being entertained or at least being given something to care about in terms of the characters. I got both with Django Unchained.
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Comment by Dr.Horrible on January 1, 2013 at 7:10pm -
...........it's still a good movie
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