No modern white public figure has a more involved relationship to the word “nigger” than Quentin Tarantino. He’s used it in screenplays since the beginning of his directing career,he’s been criticized (and defended) by black peers for it, and he’s explained his rationale for it several times in a variety of ways. Americans are obsessed with the word “nigger, and ” a semantic memento of our country’s shameful founding legacy. But few white artists seem to me more obsessed than Tarantino.
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Source: gawker.com