Was John Wayne a racist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
John Wayne does make a good point that if someone is not trained for a job, why should it be given to them to satisfy a number game? That's my issue with affirmative action. A 50 year old white woman who has been a checker in a grocery store for the past 30 years can't get a job because the ex-con black man needs a job and god forbid the numbers don't line up for the diversity ratio. It's bullshit.

What? that is not how it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
John Wayne does make a good point that if someone is not trained for a job, why should it be given to them to satisfy a number game? That's my issue with affirmative action. A 50 year old white woman who has been a checker in a grocery store for the past 30 years can't get a job because the ex-con black man needs a job and god forbid the numbers don't line up for the diversity ratio. It's bullshit.

Wait doesn't she already have job? Proof positive racists are dumb.

[Anonymous]

I think professional basketball and football needs a little Affirmative action love. If you simply go by demographics, about 75% of players should be white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think professional basketball and football needs a little Affirmative action love. If you simply go by demographics, about 75% of players should be white.

Most of the owners, execs and managers are white. So it ain't gonna happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think professional basketball and football needs a little Affirmative action love. If you simply go by demographics, about 75% of players should be white.

Most of the owners, execs and managers are white. So it ain't gonna happen.

Why will it not happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It always amazes me how people justify racism just because the racist view was widely accepted during the time the racist was wrong. If you cannot see how sick and crazy that is, you are truly disturbed. Just because a lot people accept,perpetuate and go along with "wrong", does not magically make it right. But, God forbid anyone tell the truth and seem to taint the image of a cultural icon, and we have to deal with the real, have to think differently about something that "we" hold dear and soeaks volunes about our society as a whole. It's way more important to try to downplay than admit a truth we don't want to deal with

Morality is determined by society. It's why we don't use iron maidens anymore or sacrifice babies. People thought they were doing a necessary service to their community. Yes, we can look back now and say that thousands of years of slavery was terrible, but it was normal at the time. I suspect capital punishment will be one of those things in the next 50 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He was born in 1907. The first quote actually sounds progressive for his generation.

But the fact that you quote it is regressive for yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was born in 1907. The first quote actually sounds progressive for his generation.

But the fact that you quote it is regressive for yours.

Quote what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think professional basketball and football needs a little Affirmative action love. If you simply go by demographics, about 75% of players should be white.

Most of the owners, execs and managers are white. So it ain't gonna happen.

Why will it not happen?

Because it would be boring AF.

[Anonymous]

Yes, he was racist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he was racist

Absolutely.

And a Male Chauvinist Pig as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:-John Wayne was racist and his comments were disgusting.
-Thomas Jefferson was not a great man.
-Affirmative action is a necessary. Considering that white women are now the main beneficiaries, the original concept is warped anyway. If folks think black people are getting jobs over white people, you're crazy.

And Malcolm X was a domestic terrorist. Even The DC government finally dropped his name from Meridian Hill Park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think professional basketball and football needs a little Affirmative action love. If you simply go by demographics, about 75% of players should be white.

+1!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he was racist

Absolutely.

And a Male Chauvinist Pig as well.

So what. When the Duke was around men were men, women were tender and trannies were nonexistent. It was a simpler America then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It always amazes me how people justify racism just because the racist view was widely accepted during the time the racist was wrong. If you cannot see how sick and crazy that is, you are truly disturbed. Just because a lot people accept,perpetuate and go along with "wrong", does not magically make it right. But, God forbid anyone tell the truth and seem to taint the image of a cultural icon, and we have to deal with the real, have to think differently about something that "we" hold dear and soeaks volunes about our society as a whole. It's way more important to try to downplay than admit a truth we don't want to deal with

Morality is determined by society. It's why we don't use iron maidens anymore or sacrifice babies. People thought they were doing a necessary service to their community. Yes, we can look back now and say that thousands of years of slavery was terrible, but it was normal at the time. I suspect capital punishment will be one of those things in the next 50 years.

That has to be one of the most lazy minded ass backwards rationale I have read all month. I don't care how many people do something wrong, IT.DOES.NOT.MAKE.IT.RIGHT.
Morality may be determined by majority rule(in your estimation) but it RIGHT AND WRONG ARE NOT.