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Tavis Smiley On Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained'

Tavis Smiley On 'Django Unchained'
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Talk show host, author and liberal political commentator,Tavis Smiley listens to speakers during a “taking power back from banks for consumers, and the fight against poverty” event January 12, 2012 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Smiley, along with personal finance guru Suze Orman and Princeton University Professor Dr. Cornel West, spoke about Orman's “People First” movement on behalf of consumers to fight banks and their fees. Those fees hit the poorest Americans hardest and their efforts to restore the nation’s prosperity as more and more Americans slip into poverty and unemployment. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)
Talk show host, author and liberal political commentator,Tavis Smiley listens to speakers during a “taking power back from banks for consumers, and the fight against poverty” event January 12, 2012 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Smiley, along with personal finance guru Suze Orman and Princeton University Professor Dr. Cornel West, spoke about Orman's “People First” movement on behalf of consumers to fight banks and their fees. Those fees hit the poorest Americans hardest and their efforts to restore the nation’s prosperity as more and more Americans slip into poverty and unemployment. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

The author and host of the Tavis Smiley show discusses filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s treatment of black culture in the new Western Django Unchained and asks why Hollywood can’t get it right on the legacy of slavery.

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