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2019-10-03 Home Front: Culture Wars
USC Students: John Wayne Exhibit Promotes White Supremacy
[Breitbart] Film students at the University of Southern California are protesting against a campus exhibit dedicated to the life and films of John Wayne.

According to a report by the USC student newspaper, a group of student protesters is pushing back against an on-campus exhibit dedicated to the films of Hollywood legend John Wayne.

Eric Plant, a junior at USC, created a banner that he intends to display outside of the film school."By keeping Wayne’s legacy alive, SCA is endorsing white supremacy," Plant’s banner reads.

"I’m going to go every minute that I have and stand there," Plant stated. "I had conversations while I was standing there, and I was getting people to support it. I would like to keep being there and keep having a presence there."

The criticisms of Wayne are in part based on a 1971 Playboy interview in which Wayne said that he believed in "white supremacy" and defended the taking of the land that became America from the Native Americans.

"I believe in white supremacy," Wayne said during the interview. "We can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the Blacks."

"I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them," Wayne added. "Our so-called stealing of this country from them was a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."

USC’s Interim Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion Evan Hughes offered a vague statement to the student newspaper in response to the student protests.

"Our values as an inclusive community are predicated on the idea that our student population needs to be heard and have a say about our SCA environment, especially when information comes to light that changes how we relate to it," Hughes said in a short comment.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-03 11:20|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 I wonder if John Wayne actually said 'white supremacy'? I somehow doubt it.
Posted by Raj 2019-10-03 12:33||   2019-10-03 12:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Doesn't matter what he did or didn't say - he's next, and he's probably toast.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2019-10-03 12:55||   2019-10-03 12:55|| Front Page Top

#3 How do I embed a photo?
cf. file in Rogues Gallery > Genghis Wayne

tia,
L.
Posted by Lex 2019-10-03 13:55||   2019-10-03 13:55|| Front Page Top

#4 FOAD subhuman vermin, you offend me.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-10-03 14:00||   2019-10-03 14:00|| Front Page Top

#5 also a move afoot to have The Duke’s statue removed from SNA(orange county/santa ana/ John Wayne) airport.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-10-03 14:01||   2019-10-03 14:01|| Front Page Top

#6  I wonder if John Wayne actually said 'white supremacy'? I somehow doubt it.

Indeed. Turns out he did use those words, but the rest of the sentence gets clipped and removes the context. From a Playboy mag interview in 1971:

Playboy: Angela Davis [a Communist professor in the San Francisco Bay Area] claims that those who would revoke her teaching credentials on ideological grounds are actually discriminating against her because she’s black. Do you think that’s true?

Wayne: With a lot of blacks, there’s quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. 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 judgment to irresponsible people.
Posted by SteveS 2019-10-03 14:24||   2019-10-03 14:24|| Front Page Top

#7 John's wife was Hispanic.
Posted by 3dc 2019-10-03 15:02||   2019-10-03 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 I distinctly remember buying that issue of Playboy so I could read the interview.
Posted by Matt 2019-10-03 15:40||   2019-10-03 15:40|| Front Page Top

#9 John Wayne must be forced to retire in shame.
Posted by ruprecht 2019-10-03 16:32||   2019-10-03 16:32|| Front Page Top

#10 
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-03 16:51||   2019-10-03 16:51|| Front Page Top

#11 I distinctly remember buying that issue of Playboy so I could read the interview.

Ha ha ha - that's a good one!
Posted by Raj 2019-10-03 16:54||   2019-10-03 16:54|| Front Page Top

#12 For Lex. Is this as bad as wearing blackface?
Posted by jpal 2019-10-03 16:59||   2019-10-03 16:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Them's fightin words!
Posted by 49 Pan 2019-10-03 17:20||   2019-10-03 17:20|| Front Page Top

#14 "Hold yer horses, partner. That there saucy Tartar woman is fer me."
Posted by Vinegar Lumplump6273 2019-10-03 18:53||   2019-10-03 18:53|| Front Page Top

#15 As I recall that movie was shot downwind of a recent nuke test in Nevada and the cast had a high cancer consequence within a few years?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-10-03 19:09||   2019-10-03 19:09|| Front Page Top

#16 When Ghengis Khan really wants to scare people, he dresses up like John Wayne.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-10-03 19:27||   2019-10-03 19:27|| Front Page Top

#17 I distinctly remember buying that issue of Playboy so I could read the interview.

I can believe it. "I just read Playboy for the articles" was a running joke, but at one time, in addition to pix of naked persons of the female persuasion, the mag ran some great fiction and had interesting interviews with famous people. No idea about current content, but I'd wager that, like The Atlantic and Scientific American, it has turned to SJW crap.
Posted by SteveS 2019-10-03 19:37||   2019-10-03 19:37|| Front Page Top

#18 Supposedly PC Sports Illustrated gave pink slips to 50% of employees.

Get woke, go broke....and learn to code
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-03 20:02||   2019-10-03 20:02|| Front Page Top

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