This is ground covered in Uncle Toms Cabin but worth revisiting.




Stephen





When Stephen, the loyal black head of servant, saw Django riding up to the main house, the look on Stephen's face encapsulated hatred and recognition. Stephen's hatred was informed by deeply buried self-loathing that found expression in his hatred of Django who appeared to embody the courage that Stephen lacked. The externalization of this self-loathing in the subsequent actions of Stephen was cathartic.

Stephen well knew what a character like Djnago meant, (he would have seen little spirited black boys and black girls running around the plantation and had their characters neutered) and might have had sleepless nights of dread in case a full grown one appeared on the plantation to give him grief.

Django also represented a practical danger. If his swagger and apparent undermining of white authority were allowed to go unpunished, it might embolden subjugated blacks in local plantations and word might spread to the furthest plantations. This would force whites, whose authority this legend might threatened, to clamp down hard on blacks in order to reassert white authority and to discourage future upitiness. Steven might loose his position and suffer. It is in Stephan's interest to show more hatred to Django than even the withes show to Django. This would reassure the whites that blacks are safe and garner him, Stephen, even more pet-like titbits.

Whites would do this by clamping down physically and emotionally:

Physically, they would deal more harshly and cruelly with blacks who showed even the slightest spirit using those cruel methods of which we are now familiar

Emotionally, whites would attempt to demonise Django in the eyes of the general plantation slave society. They would highlight the killings that Django committed, portraying him as murderer of women, children, elderly, dogs and cats. Whites would create a counter legend of Django so terrible that even the blacks themselves would threaten their own young that evil Django might get them if they do not behave.


Eventually Django would become a pariah much like Nigerians today .

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your comment is utterly rubbish. OP nice one there.

Peter was the real boss, the servant ish was just a front. How did you skip that

Are u out of project topic?

What has naija got to do with it?

I like when one of the whites said "-JANGO Plssssss" and Django replied "the D is silent... Booom *gun shots* !!

I was actually expecting Django to betray his white partner (Doctor Shutz or wha?? ) buh the white folk got killed and Django killed 'em all!!

Who Said Blacks Niqqas Aint Gon Last In An Horror Movie??

Never a dull moment on Nairaland.

Maybe some of you watched.There was a documentary/program that highlighted Nigerians that won Visa lottery? to go to America. Many (women mainly)became nurses etc. There was a fascinating snippet at a factory or something where a Nigerian worked. The Mexican or Hispanic was asked his opinion of the Nigerian (African) and he, Hispanic, stated that he didn't like the African much because the African was arrogant. The Hispanic stated that Nigerian keeps asking people, 'how are you, how's the family, how is your wife and children?' as if he, Nigerian, was the boss.

So funny, because you could see at once what the Hispanic meant and therefor you could sympathies with his perspective. In this regard, the Hispanic was more arrogant in not perceiving that the Nigerian was merely being polite from a Nigerian perspective.

Much hatred was built up in this way also when Nigerians encountered Whites in the great confluence of cultures in the West brought about by the jet plane and subsequent narrowing-of-the-world-technologies.