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Samuel L. Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio Starin the new film ‘Django Unchained’ from Quentin Tarantino.
‘Django Unchained’ raises
the conversation on race
ering
BY P ARLEEN ORTEGA
O pinionated
J udge
tant. He has altered our collective conscious-
Django Unchained was the third best ness about race and American slavery, for
film on my 2012 favorites list the better.
.
slavery as an example, we like to act as
(opinionatedjudge.blogspot.com). Writer/
Oppression and wrongdoing do not sim- though it is old news of historical interest. It
director Quentm Tarentino used his creative ply resolve themselves; they reverberate for happened a long time ago; it doesn't have
gifts and the clout that he wields in the movie generations. Americans know this in theory anything to do with us today. To keep dwell-
industry to do something brilliant and impor- but ignore it in practice. To use American ing on it - to quote a certain Supreme Court
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justice - just perpetuates outmoded racial
entitlements.
Although film is a medium with a singu-
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