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California won't celebrate 'John Wayne Day'; one lawmaker cites actor's 'disturbing views' on race
Los Angeles Times ^ | April 29, 2016 | Jessica Roy

Posted on 04/29/2016 6:29:49 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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1 posted on 04/29/2016 6:29:50 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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Well that’s about the size of it...... Pilgrim....


2 posted on 04/29/2016 6:31:54 PM PDT by kjam22 (America need forgiveness from God..... even if Donald Trump doesn't)
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“”””He had disturbing views toward race,” said Assemblyman Luis Alejo (D-Watsonville), according to the Associated Press.”””

No, he had REALISTIC views towards race.


3 posted on 04/29/2016 6:32:12 PM PDT by shelterguy
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4 posted on 04/29/2016 6:33:26 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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This bs needs to stop.


5 posted on 04/29/2016 6:34:35 PM PDT by make no mistake
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3 Mexican wives
Josephine Alicia Saenz, Esperanza Baur, and Pilar Pallete

Fluent in Spanish.

Yeah. Racist.


6 posted on 04/29/2016 6:41:13 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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Luis Alejo (D-Watsonville) is a racist little *****. The moron probably doesn’t even have a clue who John Wayne is. Either that or he hates the Duke because he was an American.


7 posted on 04/29/2016 6:44:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If SCOTUS is really so fair and unbiased, why is it a campaign issue about who is on it?)
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“3 Mexican wives
Josephine Alicia Saenz, Esperanza Baur, and Pilar Pallete

Fluent in Spanish.”

Mexican is as much as a race as Canadian is.
Spanish is a white European Language

Just sayin’


8 posted on 04/29/2016 6:46:43 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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Don’t need the gov’t to celebrate a John Wayne day.


9 posted on 04/29/2016 6:48:57 PM PDT by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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Perhaps he is pampered. From Wikipedia:

Alejo graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with dual bachelor’s degrees in political science and Chicano studies, and obtained his master’s of education degree from Harvard University in administration, planning and social policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Alejo


10 posted on 04/29/2016 6:51:23 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Wayne was right, and the author takes his 1971 comments out of context.

Wayne was saying that blacks needed to become more educated and have a sense of duty to the country in order to run for office. These comments aren't racist, unless your viewing them through the prism of Al Sharpton: Look at the urban hellholes like Baltimore run by a black mayor. Detroit with Coleman Young, for example. Wayne's comments then were totally politically incorrect and harsh, but are they true?

11 posted on 04/29/2016 6:56:23 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (MAGA! Make America Great Again)
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Luis Alejo probably a member of La Raza, denounced Wayne as a crazy Gringo who should have been kicked out of Atzlan a long time ago.


12 posted on 04/29/2016 6:56:38 PM PDT by euram
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In other words, he got a degree in Community Agitating. Must be a real dirtbag.


13 posted on 04/29/2016 6:58:48 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If SCOTUS is really so fair and unbiased, why is it a campaign issue about who is on it?)
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John Wayne Day is gonna be May 5th this year...


14 posted on 04/29/2016 7:01:12 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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***In a 1971 interview with Playboy, Wayne called black people “irresponsible” and said Native Americans were “selfish” for not wanting to share their land with white colonists***

I read that interview while sitting in a barber shop back in 1971. John Wayne was SPOT ON!
He even mentioned the discussion between Goldwater and Johnson over Viet Nam in which Goldwater said if he was elected he would send troops to South Vietnam. Johnson said he would NOT send troops. Goldwater spoke to Johnson and said...”You know we will have to send troops to Vietnam!” Johnson’s reply was “I know Barry, but I am out to win an election!”


15 posted on 04/29/2016 7:08:53 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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He also spent millions in Mexico making movies around the Durango area. I read that in the 1980s the people of Durango wished the movie industry would come back. They miss John Wayne.


16 posted on 04/29/2016 7:11:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Perhaps we should just give California back to Mexico? We can charge them as I believe we paid for it a long time ago, and then use the money to build a wall to keep new illegals out of the rest of this country.


17 posted on 04/29/2016 7:39:48 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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I think we should deport you.


18 posted on 04/29/2016 7:48:46 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ConservativeStatement; windcliff; stylecouncilor

I looked up that interview and read the whole thing. If a little gruff here and there, so what? Wayne was right in virtually every point he made. He was a well educated man.

I wish he might have mentioned “Island In The Sky”. It’s a truly great film that I think embodies most of his philosophy of life. As a matter of fact, I’m going to watch it again right now.

God, I miss him.


19 posted on 04/29/2016 7:50:29 PM PDT by onedoug
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If you ever find yourself disagreeing with John Wayne, know that you are wrong.


20 posted on 04/29/2016 7:52:22 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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