# Tarantino using the N-word ("Django Unchained" Spoliers)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-using-the-n-word-django-unchained-spoliers/645682>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 31, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-using-the-n-word-django-unchained-spoliers/645682 "2012-12-31T17:06:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-using-the-n-word-django-unchained-spoliers/645682/81 "2013-01-04T18:57:50Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> There’s no such thing as an uncle in law,

[FACE!](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uncle-in-law)

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-using-the-n-word-django-unchained-spoliers/645682/82 "2013-01-04T19:19:56Z")

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[Ok, I watched the scene again. Marcellus clearly tells Jules: “you know her, I don’t”. So it would appear Bonnie isn’t related to him.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yO4e9h5Mg)

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-using-the-n-word-django-unchained-spoliers/645682/83 "2013-01-04T19:28:00Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> [Ok, I watched the scene again. Marcellus clearly tells Jules: “you know her, I don’t”. So it would appear Bonnie isn’t related to him.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yO4e9h5Mg)

Post 62.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-using-the-n-word-django-unchained-spoliers/645682/84 "2013-01-04T20:19:10Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> Post 62.

Shit…that’s all you had to say Negro!

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-using-the-n-word-django-unchained-spoliers/645682/85 "2013-01-05T23:40:31Z")

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> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#):
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> “This nigga here gon tell me he already paid me the money he owe me? I was like, nigga please. I’m tellin’ you if this nigga don’t pay me my money, this nigga gon have a problem. Oooh, he make me sick, playin with somebody money, knowing if a nigga play with HIS money, he be ready to kill a nigga.”
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> That is an entirely realistic monologue for me.

That is so unavailable to me. And, if anyone thinks about it, to hopefully pretty much every non-black person around. You do it both because, well, you _can_, and because it is so clear that most _can’t._. As a guitar player who plays in clubs, I am a grown man who can legitimately use the word “gig” in a way that most can’t - “yeah, man, it was a good gig - reasonable hours, decent crowd, good pay.”

Yours is much more badass. But there is always a pause when a white guy tries; it’s just unavailable. John Mayer tried and came off like a douche. Tarantino does fine when putting in Sam Jackson’s mouth; in his own? Not so much.

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