In 2013, is the black gun violence Tarantino espouses really such a fascinating new phenomenon? For generations now, American media have been encouraging blacks to take violent retribution. We’re coming up on close to a half-century of whites in the media egging on black badassery.
How’s Tarantino’s macho minstrel show working out for black males, anyway?
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When he was a child growing up in Texas in the 1980s, William Jackson Harper went to a show at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas. âThere was some part of the programme where some guy, somewhere in the stands, screams out, âThe south will rise again!â Things like that just came up that I didnât clock as major moments. But as I got older I was like, âOh, that was messed up.ââ
He continues: âThereâs a point in a lot of black peopleâs lives where, especially if youâre around a lot of white people, all of a sudden your race becomes a thing. For me, it was middle school. It makes everything thatâs happening now seem like, âOh well, nothing ever really changed. It just went underground and now itâs back on the surface.ââ