"To paraphrase Oprah, call it a "Django Moment." This is the moment when, while watching Quentin Tarantino's campy new slave-revenge movie, a person of color begins to feel uncomfortable with the way white people around them are laughing at the horrors onscreen. Though the film from which it stems has only been in wide release for less than 48 hours, if what I've heard in private conversations is correct, the Django Moment is already a fairly widespread phenomenon."*
Some critics, including Spike Lee, have torn Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained apart, saying it glorifies slavery. Others who've viewed it say it delivers a powerful commentary on the horror of slavery in an unexpected way. Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (Host, Turner Classic Movies), and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) break it down.
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