John Wayne on the Hollywood Blacklist, the American Way of Life & why he disliked 'High Noon'
Posted on 03/03/2019 8:13:40 PM PST by blueplum
Full Title: 'He didn't care what race, gender, sexual orientation you were': John Wayne's son defends his father over homophobic slur he used in 1971 interview which resurfaced
John Wayne’s son says a 1971 Playboy interview in which the famed actor says he ‘believes in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility’ was ‘used out of context.’ Ethan Wayne on Saturday defended his late father, the Oscar-winning star of True Grit and Sands of Iwo Jima, who died of stomach cancer in 1979. John Wayne’s controversial comments about African Americans, homosexuals, and Native Americans in the interview have prompted calls to remove his name from an airport in Santa Ana, California. ‘It would be an injustice to judge someone based on an interview that's being used out of context,’ Ethan Wayne told CNN on Saturday. ‘They're trying to contradict how he lived his life, and how he lived his life was who he was. ‘So, any discussion of removing his name from the airport should include the full picture of the life of John Wayne and not be based on a single outlier interview from half a century ago.’
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When a black guy dates (?) a white girl, multiculturalists gush with approval.
John Wayne only married Mexican women, I believe, yet the same multiculturalists aren’t so crazy about that:
Why..?
Interesting. I always thought the airport was in Irvine, CA.
A lot of people, of various races, spoke that way years ago.
Some still do, but far less in open company.
Times change, and much of what is seen as acceptable conduct or expectation also changes.
Most people are a product of the time they live in.
All his films are going to be edited or deleted. Then the Left will start working on Clint Eastwood, then Mel Brooks, Three Stooges, etc.
Maybe I should start a DVD collection after all.
SNA airport code, Santa Ana technically.. But oddly yes, you’re correct, it’s pretty much smack dab in the middle of Irvine!
I’ve flown in there. Lovely airport. Smaller, but very friendly and comfortable.
CC
He was far ahead of his time. How many mexicans do you see in major movies nowadays? It’s mostly blacks but even from the Searchers to Liberty Valance to El Dorado, they were always present in JW westerns.
Nowadays, the leftards and their liberal white guilt ALWAYS target black people and demos ike it’s a never ending race guilt for white libtards..
That’s how they start with the Civil War monuments. They WILL move on to army generals and army bases and end up Mt Rushmore because they were simply white..
Everyone here a decade ago started brushing me off with the fag marriage movement. The left know how to get closer to the field goal line.
Everyone? I was here a decade ago and I didn't brush you off that I can recollect. :-) I think a lot of us saw these trends coming a long time ago.
To judge someone by their comments of the day, it helps to look at what was happening at the time.
***what was going on in the late 60’s, early 70’s?***
Civil Rights Movement:
The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the civil rights movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and anti-imperialism.
The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of civil disobedience and nonviolent protest produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities. Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to these situations that highlighted the inequities faced by African Americans. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) in Alabama; “sit-ins” such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities.
Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the civil rights movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964,[23] that banned discrimination based on “race, color, religion, or national origin” in employment practices and public accommodations; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
New Left
The rapid rise of a “New Left” applied the class perspective of Marxism to postwar America, but had little organizational connection with older Marxist organizations such as the Communist Party, and even went as far as to reject organized labor as the basis of a unified left-wing movement. Sympathetic to the ideology of C. Wright Mills, the New Left differed from the traditional left in its resistance to dogma and its emphasis on personal as well as societal change. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) became the organizational focus of the New Left and was the prime mover behind the opposition to the War in Vietnam. The 1960s left also consisted of ephemeral campus-based Trotskyist, Maoist and anarchist groups, some of which by the end of the 1960s had turned to militancy.
Crime
The 1960s was also associated with a large increase in crime and urban unrest of all types. Between 1960 and 1969 reported incidences of violent crime per 100,000 people in the United States nearly doubled and have yet to return to the levels of the early 1960s.[29] Large riots broke out in many cities like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, New Jersey, Oakland, California and Washington, D.C. By the end of the decade, politicians like George Wallace and Richard Nixon campaigned on restoring law and order to a nation troubled with the new unrest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s
***What were black attitudes about race during the 60’s, early 70’s ?***
study, through 1990s, around 20% prefer separatism and around 30% reject biracial marriage, and blacks overwhelmingly preferred to ally with of-color people:
” Studies of racial attitudes indicate that during the latter 1960s at the height of the intensity of the Black liberation movement, Black students were becoming much more negative in their perception of White people (Banks, 1970).
… Marx (1967) found that Black pride and anti-White attitudes were inversely related. In fact, his data indicated that variables such as intellectual sophistication, high morale, and positive selfimage correlated negatively with anti-White sentiment. Pettigrew (1969) cautions us not to confuse “Black power” ideas with racial separatism. He thinks that as a presumed intervening stage, Black separatism is more concerned with group pride and “local control,” more a retreat from Whites than an attempt to dominate them. On the basis of their extensive 1968 survey of Black residents in fifteen major cities, Campbell and Schuman (1968) concluded: “Separatism appeals to from five to eighteen percent of the Black sample, depending on the question, with the largest appeal involving Black ownership of stores and Black administration of schools in Black neighborhoods, and the smallest appeal the rejection of Whites as friends or in informal contacts. Even on questions having the largest appeal, however, more than three-quarters of the Black sample indicate a clear preference for integration. Moreover, the reasons given by respondents for their choices suggest that the desire for integration is not simply a practical wish for better material facilities, but represents a commitment to principles of nondiscrimination and racial harmony. “
The Left found a useful tool (accusations of racist, as well as homophobic, sexist, etc attitudes) to scrub conservatives from history. If a liberal says similar things, nothing happens. Why do Conservatives give up so easily?
A Jewish father was very troubled by the way his son turned out and went to see his rabbi about it.
“Rabbi, I brought him up in the faith, gave him a very expensive Bar Mitzvah and it cost me a fortune to educate him. Then he tells me last week, he’s decided to be a Christian. Rabbi, where did I go wrong?”
The rabbi strokes his beard and says, “Funny you should come to me. I too, brought up my son as a boy of faith, sent him to university and it cost me a fortune and then one day he comes to me and tells me he wants to be a Christian.”
“What did you do?” asked the man of the rabbi.
“I turned to God for the answer,” replied the rabbi.
“What did he say?” asked the man.
He said, “Funny you should come to me...”
A number of Freepers who I kindly list on my homepage have been delightfully gleeful at the prospect that my southern heritage would be vilified and erased and my great great grandpa deemed no better than a Nazi party member
Why they do this and ally with progressives I never understood
I warned them The Left would not stop with the white South and that we were merely the lowest hanging fruit.
So tell me.
Was I wrong ?
Btw....many of these south bashers here were early nevertrumpers though they run from that label now like scared bunnies
The Left and media and Hollywood creative side always detested Duke.
This is disgusting
I just saw you list. That’s hilarious!
We’ve come a long way people. Live in the present not the past, look to better the future (MAGA).
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