{"id":19122,"date":"2013-01-17T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19122"},"modified":"2013-01-17T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:57:04","slug":"dick-gregory-on-django-unchained-and-spike-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19122","title":{"rendered":"Dick Gregory On \u2018Django Unchained\u2019 And Spike Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary social activist, comedian, and author <strong>Dick Gregory<\/strong> weighed in on the controversial <strong>Quentin Tarantino<\/strong> film <em>\u201cDjango Unchained,\u201d<\/em> and he made some controversial comments about film director <strong>Spike Lee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, <strong>Gregory<\/strong> says that the movie spoke to him in ways that no film had in all his years on earth. He then calls out <strong>Lee<\/strong> for criticizing a film that he\u2019s never seen, saying that if anyone has created movies that are disrespectful to our ancestors, it\u2019s <strong>Lee<\/strong> himself: I\u2019ve seen<em> \u2018Django Unchained<\/em>\u2019 12 times. Never in the history of Hollywood, have they ever made anything that freed the inside of me. The inside of me. I\u2019m 80-years-old, I saw cowboy movies, wasn\u2019t no Black folks in cowboy movies. I\u2019m looking at a Western, plus a love story. To those of you all that see it, you\u2019ll never see a love story about a Black man and a Black woman where it wasn\u2019t some foul sex and foul language, huh. And <strong>Spike Lee<\/strong> can\u2019t appreciate that. The little thug ain\u2019t even seen the movie; he\u2019s acting like he White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary social activist, comedian, and author Dick Gregory weighed in on the controversial Quentin Tarantino film \u201cDjango Unchained,\u201d and he made some controversial comments about film director Spike Lee. In an interview, Gregory says that the movie spoke to him in ways that no film had in all his years on earth. He then calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}