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“Accelerated with the release of Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” the nation has been coming to a détente with the word “nigger” — certainly not a full-on embrace, nor (given the proliferation of hate speech that bounces around the nation and the Internet every day) anything close to a repudiation of the word, but something like an adjustable tolerance that seeks to defuse the power of the epithet not by suppressing it, but by using it situationally, in some wider, more benign context.
“But despite all the attention being paid in the wake of Tarantino’s new film, the n-word has been in the process of being slowly unchained for years. The new focus, courtesy of Tarantino’s funny, savage, cleansingly bloody movie, puts the word again squarely in the spotlight, at the heart of a debate the nation has been having with itself, over and over, for years.”
Spike Lee's 'Miracle at St. Anna'
Foxx and Downey in 'The Soloist'
Washington and Travolta in 'Pelham 1 2 3'
