The "Docility" Argument
The movie: "Django Unchained" features a key argument for the "success" of the chattel slavery system. That argument centers on the "natural docility" of the African, based on the formation of their brains. Most of the "scientific" arguments supporting the natural subjugation of Africans and anyone with a drop of African blood have been "scientifically" refuted -- although without the prominence required to delete it from human belief systems. It is known that all tyrants, whether butchers or popes, or other crowned heads, realize that to succeed you have to be very careful in your understanding of the 80% of the subjugated who maintain the system. Ten percent will be rebellious, and ten percent will be strong supporters of the tyrant. The middle 80% can be relied upon to "go along" so long as they see themselves as "safe" or to otherwise benefit. The tyrant must be careful not to ask for "too much" from the 80%. From Hitler to "W"; I've seen this principle applied in my lifetime.
As for the nonwhite, and especially the Colored/Negro/African-American/Black groups, this rule has starkly been in evidence in three instances: Booker T. Washington vs. Frederick Douglass; W.E.B. Dubois vs. Marcus Garvey; and Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X. White opinion, expressed through religions, government, and all forms of media, pushed the "choice" for blacks, in the direction we see today.
Economics and "struggle" are factors missing in current discussion; but they become highly visible when examining the arguments of the protagonists. Blacks and other non-whites in the Americas today must re-inject economics and the appropriate form of struggle into these arguments. The picture "flips" dramatically. Tarantino put forward his method for doing so in his movie. In my 73 years, I've seen no other script released by Hollywood that took his approach.
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