Which is, of course, why Tarantino did it. Because if he hadn't, he would look back and see that outside influence/judgment had affected how he made this movie. And in his opinion, the movie is better with that character in it (I agree) -- so he put Jackson's character in. To someone like Tarantino, who really couldn't care less what people think, it's that simple.Samuel L. Jackson plays Stephen’s overblown insouciance and anachronistic mf-bombs to great comedic effect. There are moments, however, when ironies cancel each other out, and we’re left with a stark truth—at its most basic, this is an instance in which a white director holds an obsequious black slave up for ridicule. The use of this character as a comic foil seems essentially disrespectful to the history of slavery.