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‘Django Unchained’ dolls banned by eBay as ‘offensive’

Online auction giant eBay has banned the sale of dolls linked to Quentin Tarantino’s blood-soaked western about a freed slave “Django Unchained,” describing them as “offensive,” on Thursday. The toymaker who manufactured the dolls had already discontinued them, after protests from black advocacy groups, according to the celebrity news website…

Tarantino loses temper in interview: ‘I am not your slave’

In a heated interview aired Thursday night, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino completely shut down a journalist who wanted him to speak about his views on violence in media, telling him: “I am not your slave and you are not my master.” “Why are you so sure there is no link between…

Spike Lee: Seeing new Tarantino film would be ‘disrespectful to my ancestors’

The debate surrounding filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained continued as the film opened Tuesday, with Tarantino’s fellow director, Spike Lee, telling Vibe Magazine he outright refused to watch Tarantino’s film, which has been criticized both for romanticizing slavery and for promoting violence against white people. “I’m not gonna see it,”…

Tarantino: Drug incarcerations are ‘slavery’ from ‘fear of the black male’

Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino says that race relations in America have gotten a lot better, but that that the so-called War on Drugs has “decimated the black male population” and it is continuing for “all the same reasons they had for keeping slavery going.” “It’s very depressing,” Tarantino told…

O’Reilly guest: Quentin Tarantino likely responsible for real-life violence

Quentin Tarantino was the topic of discussion on Tuesday’s episode of “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News, with the host and a guest putting the heat on the filmmaker’s body of work for possibly causing real-life violence. Introducing his guest, bullying expert and counselor Chuck Williams, O’Reilly claimed that Tarantino…