Django Unchained slave toys pulled (selling for high prices on ebay now) [View all]

[Liberal_in_LA]

Toy maker NECA has halted production of Django Unchained action figures after consumers and US civil-rights activists called them discriminatory and exploitative.

The 20-centimetre figurines in question depict slave characters Django, Broomhilda and Stephen from the Quentin Tarantino revenge flick set in the Deep South during the 1800s.

As producers of the film, The Weinstein Company asked NECA to discontinue the line when groups like Al Sharpton's National Action Network, the NAACP and Project Islamic Hope launched complaints.

TMZ reported that NECA had produced only about 1000 toys before they were discontinued.

'We feel that it trivialises the horrors of slavery and what African Americans experienced,' PIH director Najee Ali told the Daily Mail.

'Tarantino and Weinstein didn't have action figures for their movie Inglourious Basterds because they know the Jewish community would never allow it, and the African-American community shouldn't allow anyone to disrespect our ancestors.'

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