Did ya'll know John Wayne was racist?

[Swagnicious]

Didn't Public Enemy tell us this a long time ago?

The accuracy of the Elvis part has been questioned, but not the John Wayne part....

 

[Savior]

Never watched a John Wayne movie and dont care to....that tough guy persona seemed fake as fukk even before I read about the racist stuff. And yea this dude was extra with it even for back then. fukk a John Wayne

 

[Grand Conde]

Everyone knows this?

His films were garbage as well. I love westerns but John Wayne was always an actor with zero range and his movies were always cliche ridden garbage.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Yes chuck d already told me ...

 

[timothy_strickland]

He picked many mexican women as wives. So he couldnt be racist.

they were WHITE mexican women tho Esperanza Baur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

For context. The disrespect and casual nature in which he said it made this scene hilarious. But I wonder how old Clint really feels. And I just noticed a young Scott Eastwood.

 

[re'up]

Always have to laugh at him as Genghis Kahn......

 

[Family Lives Matter]

These are the exclusives I stay on the coli for
Old white male is ignorant and racist
Who would of thunk it

 

[Slystallion]

What he said about the natives Americans was more insensitive...the first part sounds like standard anti affirmative action rhetoric. Your looking at something from a much different prism before people became more articulate in framing these positions

Views are still widely held its just the language to express them has gone through an evolution...his views were What the majority of Americans believed in at the time

As for the native Americans I've heard better excuses by using they died of famine and disease argument...John Wayne was just really bias with his pro America manifest destiny and it doesn't sound right reading it in 2016

 

[MJ Truth]

Was John Wayne white? Then, yeah, I knew he was a racist.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Everyone knows this?

His films were garbage as well. I love westerns but John Wayne was always an actor with zero range and his movies were always cliche ridden garbage.

Searchers was dope.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

My dad is the biggest Western fan in the world and he never fooled with anything John Wayne related. Ever. I remember my dad and my uncle would see John Wayne movie on TV and be, "Awww sh*t, change the channel I don't fool with no John Wayne"

He's just a phony guy, even on film. If you have the eyes to see it.

But he's the tough talking faux tough guy who's loved the type of ppl who vote for George Bush/Cheaney, etc. In fact, look at how similar George Bush's tough talking speeches are to John Wayne



But yeah, here's another quote:

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fukk this clown

 

[mson]

Indians selfishly keeping that land.

That quote

 

[MegaManX]

Breaking News: John Wayne, an old man from the jim crow era was racist.

In other news, trump.