Comments on: Finally Django Dolls Get Canceled After Backlash.

By: Nikesha

Nikesha — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:51:54 +0000

I believe Janet has a fair point, and I believe that you would have to be a person of African decent to accurately feel your way around the subject and understand the offense. A man could agree that rape of a woman is wrong, but does he understand the gravity of it like a woman? An light example in so many words. I hope they make sense. I’m assuming that Janet’s reference to Jews, is also a reference of their association with the film, maybe as proprietors and those in production and profit ultimately?? In that case she’s made a fair an absolute point again. Jews of all other nations should understand the gravity of emotion behind slavery for a people within that time and their decedents up to date. Anyone with clear eyes and ears knows that when it’s within their handle to create or be part in a film and any other sort of publication considering the time of their tragedies as a people, that their steps are careful as respects to the ancestors who perished and suffered during that time, as well to Jews today who carry on a heart of conviction for the tragic past. I have not seen DJango, but wherever there is smoke its usually because there is fire. Always be careful when you walk on unsettled graves and generations of lost loved ones. I make it a practice to face the mirror the other way.

By: Corey Andrew

Corey Andrew — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:24:42 +0000

Hello. I really enjoyed your piece on the Django Dolls. I was part of the public protest as well and for the life of me I don’t know what Weinstein was thinking – if at all.

Thanks for fighting the good fight! Happy New Year!

– Corey Andrew

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:10:56 +0000

Oke,

What is the “s” word? My first tongue is French. I am a very successful Black woman so I rose above already a long time ago but I still have the right to denounce things when it is not OK. The media is the fourth power and the Jews know that. The media played an important role in the Holocaust and in other terrible massacres. We cannot have a blind eye! Jews are very protective of their image and must be like our people. The Jews made sure that people respect them in the media and beyond. I hope that my people will create the same kind of lobby to have the same respect!

By: Rodney Carter

Rodney Carter — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:16:16 +0000

America has gotten overly sensitive and too politically correct. I am a black man and I watched the movie. First, it is entertaining like most of Quentin’s films. More blacks use the word Nigger more than any other race so let’s not even go that route. Lots of films with characters make dolls or other memorabilia to capture further revenue it is the American way. Lighten up y’all it is only a film and dolls.

By: The Never Made Holocaust Dolls...

The Never Made Holocaust Dolls... — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:32:36 +0000

@nothinamazesme

You make a great point. Why are they selling the dolls that they made? Did they make sure to make at least a thousand of them before “stopping” production? And if they are truly “sorry,” then why didn’t they destroy the dolls they made and eat the cost (the movie is doing well enough for them to afford this with it “breaking records” and all)?

I don’t think they are sincere at all. They crunched the numbers and came up with an angle that allowed them to still make their money and at the same time do the “socially/morally responsible” thing.

I’ll believe they are “sorry” when they either destroy the thousand dolls they made or when they do the same thing with a line of “Emaciated Jew Action Figures.” Until then, nope.

By: Oke

Oke — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:28:03 +0000

Janet,

I know I’m in a minority here, but I believe that taking offense is a choice, to be turned down in most instances. You can choose to be offended, or not to be offended. If you choose not to, you save yourself a lot of aggravation, while setting a positive example by demonstrating you are above name-calling.

I’m not black, but I am Hispanic, and a British friend of mine once threw the s-word at me, without really knowing the implications and connotations. I was about to blow a gasket at him, when I read the look on his face, which was one of utter surprise and bemusement that I should be so offended. Simply, in Britain the word isn’t used, and consequently he had no idea – it’s just a word he’d heard in the movies.

So I realised that if it was unfair of me to tear him a new one for not knowing any better, then I was being unfair on myself if I let others who ought to know better get me down with the names.

Rise above it, it’s the only way to take away the power of the slur.

By: Shawn hudson

Shawn hudson — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:18:00 +0000

Let’s be honest for a moment even if you took the engativity out of entertainment which will never happen. Do you think a rainbow is gonna magically appear over the world and violence will stop? If so please check yourself in the nearest rehab clinic along with those tea party clowns that don’t want to admit they lost the election.

By: nothinamazesme

nothinamazesme — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:41:23 +0000

Correction in light of the celebrating of his birthday today with the inauguration, of the black president.

Note: i know his bday is actually january 15th.

By: nothinamazesme

nothinamazesme — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:38:30 +0000

Okay, I am confused as to why the dolls were not burned. So instead of the company making one million dolls and selling them at $10, they manufactured a few and that are now selling for thousands on EBay, so did they really discontinue them or waht? Today is MLK’s birthday 2013, they took us back beyond the day he was born. I wonder if the black performer’s who participated realized that it was simply exploitation??????????

By: Janet

Janet — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:00:21 +0000

I wonder how Whites would react if a Black director made a movie where the audience would hear 110 times the word redneck, etc.? Or how the Jewish community would react if a Black director would make a movie about them with derogatory terms?