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Need a person of color for a potentially racist question.

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NickyNett

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So my friend recently inherited a Doberman with the name of Django. She was wondering, being a white woman owning an animal that shares the name of a popular movie slave, if it could come off as racist and if she should change the dog's name. Or is nobody going to care because it's just a f****** dog?
 
Django, the Character, isnt necessarily Black. The original was Franco Nero, and there was a Gypsy Jazz Guitar player in the early jazz era named Django Reinhardt. Django is a Romani nickname for Jean
 
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It's hard to relay any racist jokes on Tarantinos level. I rewatched Pulp Fiction and he just opened his scene explaining how his house isn't dead N storage. I think it works because Samual L is telling TRAVOLTA to brush it off, LOL.
Django was a total badass, theres nothing wrong with the name. If anyone tries to label it as racist, throw it back at them...as being a racist ass question!
 
wasn't he freed in the opening scene, so not a "movie slave"?

anyways, it's just a name.. if someone were to go look for racist connotations they'd find them even if the boy were named john or something (same way one can come here and accuse you of racism because the thread title implies only a colored person can spot racism or verify something is or isn't racist). django sounds nice, certainly better than literally any "dog name" like spot, rover, shadow etc...
 
I wouldn't find it offensive... once I met a dog whose name was like mines... I did not find that offensive at all lol
 
TBH it would probably be racist if she started to use that name while comparing Blacks to dogs or monkeys. But nowdays, someone somewhere might find it offensive just because.
 
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