Was John Wayne a racist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

this is 100% not true. my husband is a professor- head of hiring committees for his department at a research 1 school (you would recognize the name) and you are delusional and uninformed if you think black people don't get hired over white people with better qualifications. if you're black and a woman even better. and i'm saying this as non-white female.

a white male faculty member just last week did not get tenure despite exceeding the criteria set by the tenure committee. a hispanc female with literally one publication to her name? she got tenure..... I'm not necessarily saying this is wrong, but don't be misinformed about what's really happening out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did not know that John Wayne held these views. It does make one wonder about others of his generation. Were most of them also racists?

How did you graduate from high school knowing so little about US history and the complexity of people when you judge them from today's standards?

[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

No one, not even MLK or Ghandi pass your purity test.

History needs context.

[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

No one, not even MLK or Ghandi pass your purity test.

History needs context.

I understand, but please cite for me the historical period where the proclamation of racial superiority (inferiority) was acceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What? The name of that park was never changed from Malcolm X Park to Meridian Hill Park. It was called Meridian Hill from the time it was established in 1910. People started calling it Malcolm X Park in the 1960s, but it was never formally adopted or "dropped" as you claim. Today you can call it either and people will know what you're talking about.

[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.[/b]

Anonymous wrote:
this is 100% not true. my husband is a professor- head of hiring committees for his department at a research 1 school (you would recognize the name) and you are delusional and uninformed if you think black people don't get hired over white people with better qualifications. if you're black and a woman even better. and i'm saying this as non-white female.

a white male faculty member just last week did not get tenure despite exceeding the criteria set by the tenure committee. a hispanc female with literally one publication to her name? she got tenure..... I'm not necessarily saying this is wrong, but don't be misinformed about what's really happening out there.

So....PP was right, then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did not know that John Wayne held these views. It does make one wonder about others of his generation. Were most of them also racists?

How did you graduate from high school knowing so little about US history and the complexity of people when you judge them from today's standards?

Seriously, “his generation”?

Look around.