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It's easy to protest against cops. You go to a rally, hold derogatory signs calling the cops "pigs" and "murderers," chant crap about killing cops, and you have nothing to fear.
You are not only protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, you are also protected by the very people you are chanting and cursing about.
If you're Quentin Tarantino, a famous leftist filmmaker, and you've had controversy in the past with black people, you might want to absolve yourself of your racism and attend an anti-cop rally that shows how much you really care.
But a Huffpost Black Voices article in 2012 about just how much Quentin Tarantino cares about black lives, may open your eyes.
In the Tarantino film "Django Unchained," the leftist filmmaker said he "couldn't have cared less" about what some black critics had to say about the film. His full quote: "If you've made money being a critic in black culture in the last 20 years you have to deal with me. You must have an opinion of me. You must deal with what I'm saying and deal with the consequences . . . if you sift through the criticism, you'll see it's pretty evenly divided between pros and cons. But when the black critics came out with savage think pieces about 'Django,' I couldn't have cared less."
If a conservative filmmaker used the word "savage" I suspect he or she would have hell to pay in this instance. Tarantino has been known to often overuse the 'n' word and even Spike Lee and actor Jesse Williams are among the black critics who have expressed their negative concerns about his films.
But leftists always get a free pass because their critics have really short memories.
In an anti-police rally this past weekend in New York City, Tarantino called the police "murderers," and this just four days after Randolph Holder, a black NYC cop was shot and killed in the line of duty. Holder was shot in the head as he pursued a man who had a long police record and was let out on the streets by a liberal judge who later admitted her mistake.
In order to ingratiate himself once again with the black community, Tarantino addressed the crowd of protesters:
"When I see murders, I do not stand by . . . I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers," the violent-style filmmaker said to a cheering crowd of police-haters as he held up a photo of Justin Smith, and Oklahoma man killed in police custody 16 years ago after spitting on cops.
As Tarantino (who has now earned the sobriquet of 'scumcrumpet') spoke, a number of uniformed New York City police officers protected his sorry butt.
Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association spoke out on Sunday saying "It's no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater too," he said in a statement, adding "The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls 'murderers' aren't living in one of his depraved big-screen fantasies--they're risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem."
Lynch called for an immediate boycott of Tarantino's films saying "New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous "Cop Fiction."
I've seen "Pulp Fiction" and thought it was strange at the time because it trivialized murder and death. I think back to the scene where the young man was in the back of a car and Samuel L. Jackson accidentally blew his brains out when the car hit a bump.
As for me, I'm going to continue not watching his future films and I hope the scumcrumpet gets the message from conservatives that #AllLivesMatter including the police.
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You are not only protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, you are also protected by the very people you are chanting and cursing about.
If you're Quentin Tarantino, a famous leftist filmmaker, and you've had controversy in the past with black people, you might want to absolve yourself of your racism and attend an anti-cop rally that shows how much you really care.
But a Huffpost Black Voices article in 2012 about just how much Quentin Tarantino cares about black lives, may open your eyes.
In the Tarantino film "Django Unchained," the leftist filmmaker said he "couldn't have cared less" about what some black critics had to say about the film. His full quote: "If you've made money being a critic in black culture in the last 20 years you have to deal with me. You must have an opinion of me. You must deal with what I'm saying and deal with the consequences . . . if you sift through the criticism, you'll see it's pretty evenly divided between pros and cons. But when the black critics came out with savage think pieces about 'Django,' I couldn't have cared less."
If a conservative filmmaker used the word "savage" I suspect he or she would have hell to pay in this instance. Tarantino has been known to often overuse the 'n' word and even Spike Lee and actor Jesse Williams are among the black critics who have expressed their negative concerns about his films.
But leftists always get a free pass because their critics have really short memories.
In an anti-police rally this past weekend in New York City, Tarantino called the police "murderers," and this just four days after Randolph Holder, a black NYC cop was shot and killed in the line of duty. Holder was shot in the head as he pursued a man who had a long police record and was let out on the streets by a liberal judge who later admitted her mistake.
In order to ingratiate himself once again with the black community, Tarantino addressed the crowd of protesters:
"When I see murders, I do not stand by . . . I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers," the violent-style filmmaker said to a cheering crowd of police-haters as he held up a photo of Justin Smith, and Oklahoma man killed in police custody 16 years ago after spitting on cops.
As Tarantino (who has now earned the sobriquet of 'scumcrumpet') spoke, a number of uniformed New York City police officers protected his sorry butt.
Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association spoke out on Sunday saying "It's no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater too," he said in a statement, adding "The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls 'murderers' aren't living in one of his depraved big-screen fantasies--they're risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem."
Lynch called for an immediate boycott of Tarantino's films saying "New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous "Cop Fiction."I've seen "Pulp Fiction" and thought it was strange at the time because it trivialized murder and death. I think back to the scene where the young man was in the back of a car and Samuel L. Jackson accidentally blew his brains out when the car hit a bump.
As for me, I'm going to continue not watching his future films and I hope the scumcrumpet gets the message from conservatives that #AllLivesMatter including the police.
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