Salon.com > western movies http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Spike Lee: “Django Unchained” is “disrespectful to my ancestors” http://www.salon.com/2012/12/26/spike_lee_says_django_unchained_is_disrespectful_to_my_ancestors/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/26/spike_lee_says_django_unchained_is_disrespectful_to_my_ancestors/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13154806 Over the weekend, director Spike Lee told VibeTV that he refuses to see Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," the violent slavery-era Western that came out on Tuesday. "I cant speak on it 'cause I'm not gonna see it," he said. "All I'm going to say is that it's disrespectful to my ancestors. That's just me...I'm not speaking on behalf of anybody else." Lee also tweeted: "American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.”

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