tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post7928133215452922315..comments2024-03-17T20:04:18.872-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: The Mongol Hordes and the Barbary Pirates: More Django Related Complaints From the White Right About the Unique Oppressions Faced by White PeopleLady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-19613675313269205692012-12-15T03:23:24.129-06:002012-12-15T03:23:24.129-06:00@Senor Tripp. Apologies for not figuring out the n...@Senor Tripp. Apologies for not figuring out the name at first. Send a brother an email if you want to chat for the podcast series. Rise Again is great stuff. As a ghetto nerd I remain on top of the zombie game as best I can.<br /><br />chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-84810308961324024252012-12-14T20:46:05.801-06:002012-12-14T20:46:05.801-06:00Chauncey,
I had no idea about Django until I rea...Chauncey,<br /><br />I had no idea about Django until I read your post! Thank you. I'm a TVless brotha, so sometimes I'm out the loop. But when I become a famous blogger I'm gone ask my readers to get me a flatscreen plasma TV with a tropical fist tank connected to it and some sort of space and time continuum sliding glass window so I can get Harold's chicken free and on demand! Just kidding, I understand the work you put in, so I'm aint hate n, no more. But on the real I think you should call on Black people every where to go see Django on Christmas Eve! People will think the Mayan Calendar was off by three days! White folks will be in a nation wide panic. Not even Al Sharpton hair jell will be able to calm things down smoooooth things over. The sad thing is that President Obama will denounce you as an "outside agitator" stirring up trouble and will have to give the banks a 10 trillion dollar stimulus to calm the markets down and make sure credit doesn't "dry up"<br />Invisible Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-55869851473316858402012-12-14T14:59:50.834-06:002012-12-14T14:59:50.834-06:00@Senor. Is there a one white person suffered rule ...@Senor. Is there a one white person suffered rule means that all white people are oppressed rubric at work here?<br /><br />@Cavoyo. I think you are being too generous. But who knows?chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-49756530644356369832012-12-14T10:13:17.824-06:002012-12-14T10:13:17.824-06:00It's interesting to see the checklist of white...It's interesting to see the checklist of white victimhood described by the commenter. With the exception of the massacre of South African farmers, in which race played a role, the entire list is 'things that happened to everybody including white people'. Oh, and the Potato Famine, because back then the Irish weren't white.<br /><br />I think the thesis here is white folk are the default victims of any situation in which at least several white persons are made to suffer, regardless of additional suffering by other races.<br /><br />Obviously the commenter is unaware that Cuba Gooding was there for Pearl Harbor.Señor Tripphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07323691600729654099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-12575430261791254792012-12-14T07:14:37.811-06:002012-12-14T07:14:37.811-06:00Django could be a crappy film. It could be a great...Django could be a crappy film. It could be a great film. I won't know until I see it. I do know that white conservatives/racists, and to a lesser whites in general tend to avoid films which show blacks as heroes, let alone blacks standing up to or killing white people. <br /><br />Along with the extermination of the First Peoples, slavery is the Original Sin of the US. So it's never been truly dealt with.<br /><br />The extreme right-winger open racist is at least honest that they think slavery was a-ok. The slightly less openly racist right-winger can't quite say that but has to find ways to signal those feelings.<br /><br />Thus all the revisionist history about the Civil War or the constant refrain of "other people did it too" about slavery.<br /><br />The idea that sometimes the black guy can be the good guy, get the cool lines, save the girl, kill the baddies and ride out of town is something that is EXTREMELY rare in American films. I don't know that all that happens in Django. But we shall see.Shady_Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00996625985002373392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-71298043515340332422012-12-14T07:13:02.774-06:002012-12-14T07:13:02.774-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Shady_Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00996625985002373392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-38024677740620743832012-12-14T03:24:18.575-06:002012-12-14T03:24:18.575-06:00tl;dr White people are not responsible for doing a...tl;dr White people are not responsible for doing anything that would end up hurting them or causing others to retaliate against them.<br /><br />Alternatively, maybe he's smarter than I give him credit for. Maybe, by pointing out things that are obviously not caused by racism, he's trying to make the point that people of color who claim that their history and lives are shaped by racism are exaggerating and being irrational. It's possible, but I doubt it.Cavoyonoreply@blogger.com