“Seeing Django makes me want to kill white people” …

You’re in ‘cinema shock’. It’s a mild ‘awakened dream-like state’. It will pass in about an hour or two. This happens when you come out of a well-made, completely absorbing movie. Tarrentino is a good, competent, emotion-manipulating filmmaker. He knows how to use film angles, actors, dialog, editing, and standardized plot to create ‘cinema shock’ using ‘film grammar’. His style is always spellbinding to watch, even when it is repulsive in content ( like most of Pulp Fiction).

Just don’t do anything stupid in the period after exiting a great film. Like killing anybody.

It happened to me all the time in the 1970s, with the ‘New Hollywood’ films of that time. When in ‘cinema shock’, go get an expresso. Coffee works well. Or ride a bicycle to the theater. Nothing breaks the glass cobwebs of cinema shock like actually riding a bicycle in traffic. Too bad brothers never ride bicycles.

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“what would a Jamaican be doing in Buffalo?” …

Checking what’s over the hill and across the sea, seeking out new civilizations, boldly going where no brother has gone before. World exploring is a basic human characteristic. Amren-ers sometimes forget that most black people are people first, and black people second. This is because all the afro-wackos are always doing things that get recorded here. But even though the wackos are a much larger percentage of people in ‘da community’ then in other ethnicities, it is still true that they are a small percentage of ‘da community’. Most black people are rational people that have the ability to control their inate craziness. Not all black americans are violent and unpredictable, not even half. It’s just that it’s often hard to know which ones are because non-blacks aren’t aware of the cultural clues that indicate when a brother is about to pop a gasket. There are some obvious things, like when a black stranger (with other blacks around) moves in very close to you and starts talking louder and faster. He’s getting ready to ‘sucker-punch’ assault you as an alpha-male domination gesture. Keep out of his arm-reach, get distant, and ignore any resulting verbal taunts. Non-black women should consider displaying a weapon when in this situation.

But in general, give people the benefit of the doubt about whether they are civilized, until they indicate that they are not.

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jimi hendrix, louis armstrong, nat king cole and a few old blues guys like BB King….
All great musicians, great men, great Americans. They all deserve their postage stamps and having streets and airports named after them. Yeah, they all got high on illegal drugs, but they were all the kind of guys who prove that drug-laws are mean, stupid, and cruel when applied to great people.