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Reposted from @jkanizzle Oh man there was nothing better than summertime as a kid. Long days with no school that never seemed to end, jumping through sprinklers with your friends on hot days, and riding your bike around the neighborhood laughing until the sun went down. Oh and that sound in the distance? The best thing ever! You hear it? The best song ever! The ice cream truck is coming!!!!! Every single kid in the neighborhood would gather around for orange dreams, rocket pop’s, or a strawberry sundae crunch bar! Isn’t it funny how these beloved childhood memories can have a dark racist past? Funny….haha…. The ‘ice cream truck song’, or ‘Do Your Ears Hang Low’, was initially a fiddle song known as ‘The Rose Tree’, and was brought to this country 300 years ago by immigrants from Scotland and Ireland. Ahhhh, but in 1820 the tune got rebranded ‘Zip Coon’, a lovely song about a black character who found freedom and tried to integrate into white society with “fancy clothing and big words”. Within a few years it was the most popular song in the country. And 100 years later it became a hit again, with new lyrics, called “N***er Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!”....which was released by Columbia Records. Yes, the same Columbia Records Beyonce is on. So yeah, when Amerikkka started getting into ice cream parlors (which of course were segregated because white power) they played music to keep things light and bubbly, as you do...and an instrumental version of ‘Zip Coon’ was one of these songs. Which leads us to today, and your friendly neighborhood ice cream truck. Actually, the thing that leads us to today….is the fact that for the last several nights, after protests in majority black neighborhoods in NYC, the NYPD has been driving around in the middle of the night playing this song from their cars. Showing just how racist they are to the rest of the world. - - - #amerikkkanhistoryx #blm #blacklivesmatter #zipcoon #racistpigs - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/CBkRzqphCS3/?igshid=yf0a2jmg4nd1

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So you have probably seen Django Unchained by now. If not, get on it! Minor Spoilers incoming in any case.

So about thirty minutes into the movie, Dr. Schultz informs Django he will be playing the part of his valet in order to fit into the Doctor’s ruse. In the process he is given the chance to select an outfit. And what an outfit!

Remind you of anything?

Clearly proving that Django is Quentin Tarantino’s homage to the time traveling British secret agent comedy genre. QED. Case Closed.

OK, maybe not.

There is actually a more interesting story going on here.

Look familiar? This fellow is known as the Zip Coon; a racist caricature of a newly emancipated slave trying, and hilariously failing, to fit into white society.

Now surely Tarantino has done his homework and is quite familiar with this character. So why use the image? Why have the newly free Django go immediately to this racist caricature? Rather than try and read Tarantino’s mind, let’s have the film answer the question.

After being freed, and now in a position of power with the good doctor, Django wants to both demonstrate his status, and reaffirm it to himself. Thus an outfit that screams “Look at me! I am awesome and important!” is exactly what he wants. This is hardly a reprehensible desire. Indeed we see the exact behavior today in the poor kids with the $100 shoes. They are proclaiming to themselves and others that “Hey! I’m middle class. Look at these shoes! I must be”. It works the same way for big rims and big hair. Of course we largely have ourselves to blame for constantly reminding the poor and minorities how inferior they are.

Now in the film, Django quickly realizes that he does not need to prove himself to anyone. He takes the literal and cinematic lead and we eat it up. Life, sadly, does not work in neat three act plays. Removing the stigmatic baggage attached to and carried by many minorities will take time and effort. However, I think Mr. Tarantino deserves further applause for simply trying to express the idea that not only are <insert discriminated people of choice here> awesome, but they they need not try and prove it all the time for our sake.

#Racism #Django #Zipcoon #Sociology #Class #Race #Funnyoutfits