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I guess the historical impossibility of a black bounty hunter in Texas going after white men doesn’t matter to anyone.

Nothing could be more wrong.

Black Cowboys

It is an unfamiliar part of the history of the old wild west to most, but there were actually about 10,000 to 15,000 black cowboys in the late 1860's and onwards. These men actually held quite a significant place in this part of history, after the Civil War, many of the freed slaves moved west to make a new life.

They worked on ranches and in cattle drives, and also rode in the many rodeos. Some of them joined the cavalry where they were known as Buffalo Soldiers and they brought back much needed meat and hides to resupply many of the stores.

A black man with a gun would have brought every white Texan for miles to the lynching party.

It's pretty funny that you think it's some new thing for westerns to be wildly beyond historical reality too.

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Yeah but we’re talking pre-Civil war Texas.
Three words: John Wesley Hardin. The first man he killed, at age 15, was a black man who beat him wrestling in Polk county, after the war. Despite killing anywhere from 20-40 men, after getting out of prison he tried to practice law, though not very well. OK.

The closest thing I can imagine to the plot of this movie is Tarantino himself driving around Houston, dressed in drag, behind the wheel of a pink Land Rover with ‘Save The Whales’, ‘Rainbow Power’ and similar bumper stickers, and blasting pickup trucks from behind with a semi-horn from JC Whitney.
Another Quenton cartoon with almost lifelike characters.