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Django Unchained Rundown of Black History

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Many people were upset at the movie Django because of its’ comical and gross depiction of slavery and the loose use of the N-word by white actors in the movie. I personally feel that anytime the depiction of such gruesome acts that were done in the past can be publicly displayed, I believe it does some good. There are the debates that say, “let bygones be bygones, slavery is over and let’s pick up and move forward.” This I disagree with. We must remember the past and show what happened accurately and at times artistically so that people get the imagery in their mind and don’t let it go.

Django is a movie starred by black actor Jamie Foxx, the movie was directed by sometimes controversial director, Quentin Tarantino (a white man). Tarantino is known for pushing the buttons, and going the extra mile for entertainment’s sake and normally gets a reaction from his viewers, and definitely from his critics.

Django Unchained Rundown of Black History

 

Tarantino’s movie displayed plenty little known black history facts, in that people seldom or rarely hear of the free black cowboys during those times. People rarely hear of revolting warrior-type slaves, except for a rare few such as Nat Turner. Slaves are all thought to be little submissive boys and girls who cringe at the sight of their slave master.

In the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio’s role, Calvin Candie had a lot going on within his plantation that is not common knowledge (at least it was not to me). First off, he was running a business where he allowed black male slaves to fight each other to the death of one, and if his was the winner, they received a night of rest, a slave gal to get cozy with, and a beer.

Today, we jail people who fight chickens and dogs. Candie was laying with many of the young black slave girls (well this was and is commonly known but is attempted to be hush-hush material). Candie’s house -ni%&a, Stephen, played by Samuel L. Jackson was ideally running his plantation. Stephen was a long time slave of Candie’s father, and was seen writing the checks, and making sure the plantation was in order.

Many things today are hidden from blacks because it would bring awareness. DiCaprio’s character asked in the movie, why didn’t the black slaves ever revolt and simply kill their master. The character, Candie, said he would have done so, and it would not have taken 50 years. There was a high level of fear put on the slaves, and the higher reasons to all of our black history questions are covered in The Dark Side of Black History.

 

Koko Ishe

Hidden Colors of Africa

The Dark Side
Hidden ColorsEver since the black man came into contact with Europeans through the slave trade there have been a number of legitimate questions concerning the original Black.

 

One of the first questions is which of the sons of Noah is the father to the black man living in America?
The second question is where does the black man get his own origination from? Where is he from? 
 
Another additional question that I definitely want to put forth is, what is he is he, an African or a Mesopotamian? In the documentary Hidden Colors they offered a lot of insight on the color of ancient people who have been depicted as white European over the years.

 

Also author Lee B. Cummings showed in his book The Negro Question a lot of facts and pictures of documenting the ancient great civilizations were indeed black people.
 
One thing that will surprise many black people and people in general is that blacks in America are not African as in they are not from the ancient Egyptians or from the son of Ham, Biblically speaking.

 

Blacks are from Mesopotamia. Blacks came from Sumer; if you remember in the Bible Abraham had his origination in the land of Ur or Sumer or another way of saying Shinar. 

 

 
So Abraham was a Mesopotamian, he was a black man because Mesopotamians were known and shown (through artifacts and depictions) to be dark skinned brown people.

In fact Sargon the Great gave the testimony that he ruled over the black headed people. In the movie Hidden Colors, you can get a lot of insight as well you can find a link here (Hidden Colors Film).

keep in mind, I do not agree with everything shown in the Hidden Colors film, however, their insight will help debunk many misconceptions black people have about themselves, their history, and the greatness, and potential.
 
 
Koko Ishe