I have been following Django-mania on PEN-L and other online forums recently, and one critic of the film seemed to come up more prominently than any other: Ishmael Reed, author and retired UC Berkeley professor.
I tried to learn more about Reed and I was really surprised to see an article where he criticizes the HBO-show 'The Wire' as neo-Nazi. This seems way over-the-top to me. Here's Reed on 'The Wire': http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/09/30/no_it_relies_on_clichs_about_blacks_and_drugs In the above article Reed complains: "A Berkeley professor said that there was even anthropological interest in teaching “The Wire,’’ as though blacks were members of an Amazon tribe instead of members of American society." That sentence reminded me of Chief White Halfoat in Catch-22: https://twitter.com/shamivr/statuses/258273993323339778 I am not trying to prolong this discussion - I suspect that most PEN-Lers have had enough of Django already. I wanted to share this simply because if the critics of Django have a problem more generally with, say, 'The Wire', at least that helps clarify where they are coming from, and go beyond arguing about Tarantino. -raghu.
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