I don't know if it is lower IQ people or just those brainwashed by indefensible concepts or those who use accusations of racism to achieve personal or political advantage. Take that Playboy interview that caused what I consider the racist left to rise up in condemnation of John Wayne.
He said in that interview that he supported white supremacy UNTIL BLACK HAD BEEN SUFFICIENTLY EDUCATED TO BE RESPONSIBLE. Right or wrong, defensible or indefensible, his opinion was that black people had not been sufficient educated to know how to manage or run things in a way advantageous to ALL people, black, white and other. It was not a condemnation of black people per se but rather a condemnation of the circumstances of black people. And in fact in 1971 when he said it, there was no country in the world populated or governed by mostly black people that was doing well. Is to observe that racist? Or a reality that is now considered politically incorrect to acknowledge?
And is it racist to not feel personally guilty that black people were enslaved many generations earlier? Most especially when a person does not in any way approve, condone, or would allow that now?
Should John Wayne or any other person be judged by a remark made a half century before? Can any one of us say we never said ANYTHING that wouldn't look good on the front page of the newspaper today? Should we judge ANYBODY by what they once did, said, believed when they would now no longer do that or don't believe that or wouldn't say it in the way they were allowed to say it then?
At what point do we allow a country or person to be the better version that it/he/she has become? Or like the hateful left, do we strip a person of much deserved recognition and honor based on something they did or said decades or a half century before?
John Wayne’s son has lashed out at calls to dump his dad’s name from a California airport, insisting his dad “was not a racist” — and would even have “pulled tho…
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