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I don't like how the Django movie portrayed white people..
A grown up watches the movie and go, oh ok, yea they're exaggerating...
A younger person may watch this and go ,, yea,, kill dem' crackers".... This generates an unnecessary divide which may ripple into more social angst in young black Americans... for which they may end up compensating by violence or racism 'against whites'
Which is why I've always thought that movies should steer clear of racism, because it can easily be taken out of context, or be viewed by people who would never be exposed to or ever look-up context...
But, i suppose the film studios just can't stop from emotional profiteering off the racism springboard..
Racism should really be explained in a modern class room environment by a qualified professional.. Such as a businessman who sees the objective goals and not the meddling emotions of it all.
I would agree with you on the racist aspect of the question. At least, I feel that movies nowadays are greatly playing on the look-how-bad-white-people-have-been part when the story is way more complicated than this.
In Django, however, I feel it's pretty obvious that southern white guys are exaggerated. This is the most visible in the KKK scene, where those bastards are outrageously dumb. Moreover, Tarantino is known for exaggerating everything. In Kill Bill, this is all about blood shower. I mean, the guys are losing 100 times their whole blood upon dying. Who would believe that?
I understand the cause of your concern, but I kind of disagree with the "qualified professional" approach. I'm totally not "hating" on anything, and I'm certainly not saying that I'm right, but these are just a couple of thoughts:
1. I believe that there are far too many things that people find too taboo to talk about in life. Religion, politics, race, income, etc.
2. I believe that taboo topics keep us all separated: the less we talk about them, the more power that topic has over us.
3. We don't need to be any more separated than we are.
4. When we talk about things (even movies) sure, we're all going to have different perspectives, we'll all be a little bit ignorant of something (we are all ignorant of lots of things but that doesn't keep us from discussing those things about which we are ignorant). And we'll make mistakes. That, however, is a big part of how we learn: by making mistakes.
5. Waiting for "qualified expert" to teach us implies that we are incapable (or less capable) of contributing meaningful things to the conversation. Too, waiting for "qualified experts" sounds like a hop, skip and jump away from propaganda. Germany, in WWII, had tons of "qualified" experts "teaching" the population about race. We know how that story ended.
6. I think we all need to have a bit more faith in ourselves: nothing is as bad as the ruling elite would have you believe.
