![]() ![]() ‘We can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks.Below are a few quotes from the interview: In a 1971 interview with Playboy magazine, Wayne made several comments that could be deemed offensive about blacks and Native Americans. The joke is a reference to actor-comedian Kevin Hart, who was forced to step down a host of this year’s Academy Awards after years-old tweets about homosexuals resurfaced. Besides he been dead for 39 years idiots!’ĭavid Ehrlich joked: ‘100% they’re gonna ask John Wayne to host the Oscars next year.’ ![]() ‘The man was born in 1907 he grew up during a time when racism was a real problem in this country. Writer Whitney Cummings tweeted: ‘You guys don’t need to go back to John Wayne to find racist homophobes – maybe we should focus on the alive ones?’Īnother Twitter user tweeted: ‘Snowflakes on Twitter tweeting about the John Wayne Playboy interview from 1971. ‘Is there any way we can dig up his corpse and make it apologize?’ ‘Who would have thought an interview from a 1971 edition of Playboy would contain outdated views? Totally misogynistic.’Īnother Twitter user said it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Wayne held views that today are considered obsolete. Natalie Wynn joked: ‘Glad to see John Wayne’s offensive 1971 interview trending, but let’s also take a moment to remember that King Henry VIII had two of his wives beheaded. One John Wayne supporter tweeted: ‘I wish John Wayne was still alive so he could laugh in the face of today’s weaklings, light up a Lucky Strike, and cruise away with their girlfriends.’ Mark Harris tweeted jokingly: ‘I’m reading all these tweets and getting slightly worried about whether John Wayne is still going to be able to get work.’ Smollett is the actor from the hit Fox drama Empire who claimed he was beaten in an attack in which he was called racist and homophobic epithets.Īs the investigation progressed, doubts about the veracity of his claims have surfaced as police now suspect it may have been a staged hoax.ĭavid Ehrlich joked: ‘100% they’re gonna ask John Wayne to host the Oscars next year.’ The joke is a reference to actor-comedian Kevin Hart, who was forced to step down a host of this year’s Academy Awards after years-old tweets about homosexuals resurfaced ‘I don’t know what it is with you people.’Ĭonservative commentator Ben Shapiro joked: ‘Looking forward to Jussie Smollett IDing John Wayne in the alleged attack.’ ‘It’s not only ridiculous but it cheapens truly egregious events worthy of real outrage and attention.Īn account parodying the late President Richard Nixon tweeted: ‘That John Wayne interview is almost 50 years old, and he was never shy about his politics, which no one gave a damn about long enough to make him a star for 30 years. The fact that some people are outraged now over what he said in a 1971 Playboy interview is just peak outrage culture. Twitter users expressed disbelief that Wayne’s political views are still being discussed almost 50 years after the interview was published.Įugene Gu tweeted: ‘John Wayne died in 1979. ‘I think the Hollywood studios are carrying their tokenism a little too far.’ ‘I had a black slave in The Alamo, and I had a number of blacks in The Green Berets,’ he said. ‘I’ve directed two pictures and I gave blacks their proper position,’ he said. Wayne was also asked at the time if Hollywood is doing enough to have diversity. When asked if the government should pay reparations to Native Americans, he said: ‘I don’t know why the government should give them something that it wouldn’t give me.’ ‘I hope they haven’t been careless with their wampum.’ ![]() The cover of the May 1971 issue of Playboy is seen above ![]()
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