washington. it has become impossible to find shovels or bottled water. indra, how is it? a mild season so far. 15 inches below normal for snow totals this season, but we all know by this point, this atomic bomb basically, this huge low pressure system developing is expected to bring heavy snowfall here by late afternoon. currently, of course, the sun support, still generally calm, visibility is great. one thing picking up here is the wind, just in the last my hat flew right off, not warm enough, i need the beanie on top of it. you can see the custom tower, and you remember, two to three inches of snow per hour. that s the amount of heavy snow we re expecting as we go toward late afternoon in through the evening and even all the way in through tomorrow. keep in mind, not talking about heavy snow, but high winds, and with that chances are as we go through the afternoon, we won t be able to see the tower anymore. a quarter mile away. as soon as we can t see that we know visi
style presentation trivializes slavery all together. at the table, anthea butler rejoining me, msnbc contributor ari melber who recently wrote about the amorality of django unchained. wl we will ask him about that. michael skolnick and host of msnbc s the cycle, toure. i knew this would be a hot one. just let it flow, joy. but since ari wrote that this film was amoral, what do you mean? without any spoilers, keeping in mind people who haven t seen the film, what do you mean? you can keep your television on and still see this movie. what i will say without revealing the end, it is one thing to reflect evil and reflect a tragedy and another to luxuriate in it. my problem with this film, having gone in with an open mind and liking some of quentin tarentino s previous work, he
so i don t think it s just immoral. i think there s some kind of weaving between the tarentino does to try to hold this movie together. slavery obviously was gruesome. this movie is violent and perhaps some people would say appropriately violent for what it s discussing. michael, from your perspective i have never been a fan of tarentino for his violence. when i watch this, i think the challenge is the violence against black people is what s brutal. that s the brutality. the violence against black people, the burning of the flesh, the torture, the this stuff happened, though. this is the point. that s in the film. we haven t seen this in this capacity and then the response, the revenge killing, that is heroic. that s triumphant. the problem americans have with this, or will have with this film, django s triumph is our triumph over slavery but we haven t reconciled, we talk about it but we haven t reconciled slavery. people don t want to talk about it. what we haven t
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