Django, the N-Word, and How We Talk About Race in 2013

[bricolage]

An interesting article, would like to know what others think of it. At the very least worth reading for the Samuel L. Jackson interview at the end.


2013 is going to be incredible, if for no other reason than because this will undoubtedly be the year the cultural discourse shifts from simple discussions of "race" or "racism" to the majestic land of "how we talk about and react to race in mixed settings." While ideas of a "post-racial" society are but a single cute step below thinking the world was going to end on December 21 on the "awwww, that's cute" scale, what we are in 2013 is post–"race and things typically associated with a single race existing only within that racial silo." Finally.
http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/64541/django-the-n-word-and-how-we-talk-about-race-in-2013

[Manic Impressive]

It's certainly interesting, I don't quite know what to make of it. Just needed to say Samuel L Jackson what a legend so funny.

[RadioRaheem84]

Race is such a messed up topic in the US, I do not even know where to start. At both ends of the spectrum (right and left) we're still a 'one drop rule' country. If you're not white blonde haired blue eyed with a name that doesn't end in a vowel, you're white. Everyone else is "ethnic".

[Manic Impressive]

There was the horrible foreign couple behind me that thought everything was hilariousThought this was a little ironic though