Racist statements lead lawmakers to reject John Wayne Day

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Plans to create a holiday for John Wayne in California have been scrapped after objections were raised over racist comments [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/10749455/John-Wayne-a-life-in-cinema.html"]the Hollywood legend[/URL] made in the 1970s.
A motion in the state assembly to declare May 26 John Wayne Day was rejected on Thursday due to [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/04/14/john-wayne-10-surprising-facts/"]the late True Grit star's[/URL] alleged "disturbing views toward race".
 The row centred over over a 1971 interview in Playboy magazine in  which Wayne suggested that black people were irresponsible, and not  equal to whites.
 "We can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks," he said.
 "I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a  point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and  positions of leadership and judgement to irresponsible people," he  added.
 Assemblyman Mike Gipson said that while Wayne's films "are one  thing", such statements were "very offensive" and led him to vote  against the proposed holiday.
 In the same interview Wayne, who made his name in Western films, said  it had been "selfish" for Native Americans to try and halt the westward  migration of white Europeans.
 "Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter  of survival," he said. "There were great numbers of people who needed  new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for  themselves."
 That passage was cited by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who noted  that there was "a lot of slaughtering of Native Americans" in Wayne's  films.
 Matthew Harper, the official who had proposed the holiday, suggested that it was [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12109365/John-Wayne-family-shoots-holes-in-Donald-Trump-endorsement.html"]un-American to oppose John Wayne Day[/URL].
 "Today is the day that political correctness prevailed over a  profoundly American figure recognised throughout the world," he said.  "Opposing the John Wayne Day resolution is like opposing apple pie,  fireworks, baseball, the Free Enterprise system and the Fourth of July!"
 The proposal was ultimately rejected by a 36-19 vote. 
 Wayne, whose film career spanned five decades, died in 1979 at the age of 72.

 

[DaveSimmons]

"Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival," he said. "There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."

Genocide, germ warfare, systematic eradication of their culture -- we HAD to do it!

Obey our own treaties that we made at gunpoint? That would interfere with looting their resources!

 

[Schmide]

That don't mean nothing, Miller. A lot of straight guys like to watch their buddies fuck. I know I do.

 

[TheGardener]

Whether there is a John Wayne Day or not, will not make a difference in my life. Naming a state flower, sandwich, cake, etc., etc., has more to do with political patronage and lobbying than anything else.

That said, I wonder how long it will take for the California State Legislature to vote on requiring their own members to give back all their property to the Indians. Got a feeling it will be a very long wait. But don't you dare call that racism.

Anyone daring enough to click on newsmxx765's links?

 

[DaveSimmons]

That said, I wonder how long it will take for the California State Legislature to vote on requiring their own members to give back all their property to the Indians. Got a feeling it will be a very long wait. But don't you dare call that racism.

Because it isn't. Untangling property claims after centuries is a little different from saying that Native Americans deserved what they got.

 

[TheGardener]

Because it isn't. Untangling property claims after centuries is a little different from saying that Native Americans deserved what they got.

Still it would be a magnanimous and unselfish gesture.

 

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