Things that weren't considered racist when Clint Eastwood was growing up

[bigtree]

Scott Wooledge ?@Clarknt67 9h9 hours ago Brooklyn, NY
Clint Eastwood: “When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist."

Sarah McBride @SarahEMcBride
Clint Eastwood was born in 1930. Let's start a list of things that weren't considered racist when he was growing up.

1) Jim Crow


2) a segregated military


3) dismissing the concept of a black president


4) poll taxes


5) opposition to federal anti-lynching laws.


6) using racist words and descriptions


7) membership in the Klan


8) forbidding people of color from entire professions


9) Housing discrimination


10) forbidding black people from talking to white people


11) anti-miscegenation laws


12) Jim Crow again


13) literally the entire experience of being black in America in the 1930s


14) Black Codes / convict lease


15)The Negro Motorist Green Book. Also, "Sundown Towns."




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[Liberal_in_LA]

1. Npr had interview with woman who is writting about how blacks had to plan road trips

To know hotels that rented to blacks and "sundown" towns.. towns that blacks had to leave by sundown by law..

[Dustlawyer]

16. It's even more chilling when you are hearing these stories from your in-laws.

My 94 year old Auntee would describe trips they took for funerals and weddings. It's almost like planning a trip through enemy territory. The rights they did have could be denied by any white person. The stories made me ashamed at the injustice that was common place. I hope there are plenty of authors going out and preserving many of these stories for history, not that many even bother to know history. Trump's candidacy highlights how many do not have even a rudimentary grasp of the Constitution.

[mdbl]

2. Clint Eastwood has officially become Moron extraordinaire

You really have to be a sh&* shovel to make the statements he made in the press yesterday. He says he has to support Frump but then gives all the reasons he shouldn't except to say we are all too politically correct. Does this idiot live in a vacuum?

[jtuck004]

4. He has so much money people listen to him. He mistook that as thinking he

had something to say.

[Feeling the Bern]

18. Trump, Nugent, Norris, Eastwood. . .four dildos, four points of IQ. Divide them up accordingly.

[Johonny]

33. The dumbest thing was his fantasy of Obama working with this congress

somehow Obama isn't manning up and forcing congress to work together and make deals. It's like he lives in fantasy land where our current congress is capable of of doing anything. The house just spit out their standing speaker due to fracturing of his own party support. It the speaker of the house can't work with congress...how does Obama. Yet in fantasy Eastwood land, he just man's up and gets it done. The guys a moron when it comes to politics (and he was an elected official at one point in his life). It don't get it.

[mdbl]

34. Clint's next movie "Any Which Way but Lucid"

[awoke_in_2003]

36. Thanks

I needed the laugh

[AgadorSparticus]

37. Haha!! That's a good one! 😂😂😂

[lpbk2713]

3. POC last hired ... first fired.

...

[pnwmom]

5. Using the N word. n/t

[sarge43]

6. Segregated housing

The contract for the home my parents bought in 1948 specified that it could not sold or rented to Negros. This was in Michigan.

[ck4829]

7. Just sounds like "The problem isn't racist things, the problem is people pointing out racist things"

The problem isn't that houses are on fire, it's that people have to complain about it and call 911, we'd stop having houses on fire if people just ignored it!

[klook]

10. "Get an asbestos suit and a gas mask, crybaby!" (n/t)

[heaven05]

19. so if we don't put racist people

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on notice about "racist things", it will all go away? That's the purpose of your words-advice?

[lastlib]

27. I think the poster was pointing out how racist people think......

using an analogy. Not saying it was OK.

[ck4829]

32. That's the misperception some people have about racism, like Clint Eastwood

Out of sight, out of mind.

Racism won't go away if it's not called out, no. Pretending that racism doesn't exist, like with any social bad and saying it doesn't exist, is not a solution to that social bad.

[anniebelle]

8. So, when is he going to grow up?

Yes, in my 71 years, I've seen a lot of changes too. Humans have to adapt to changes in order for the survival of the species. Clint Eastwood must have been born in the shallow end of the gene pool. Personally, I think he has lost his freakin' mind. A few years back, Jimmy Buffet had a song that had a line ~ 'talkin' to chairs is strange, and I know it" ~ I don't think Clint has a clue.

[IronLionZion]

9. And deal with difficult women by raping them

***Trigger warning ***

Rape Scene Clint Eastwood High Plains Drifter 1973

It took place in the old west, but back in the 70's I suppose nobody thought it was wrong to have it in a movie where Clint's character is a good guy with a gun.

[Orrex]

11. Well, when some dumb broad gets mouthy, what else is a cowboy supposed to do?

[Feeling the Bern]

17. High Plains Drifter is all kinds of ugly. The disgusting bullwhipping murder scene turned me off

It is nothing more that sadistic torture porn in a Cowboy movie.

[Nitram]

22. Um, Eastwood did not play a "good guy" in High Plains Drifter.

He played Satan (or perhaps a vengeful Old Testament God) in that supernatural surrealistic movie. He literally paints the town red and renames it Hell. This is not your traditional western with a good guy in any sense of the word.

[IronLionZion]

26. I didn't watch the movie

I thought he normally plays good guys

[CBGLuthier]

28. Shouldn't make comments on movies you have not seen.

I would never ever say that even a fictional character deserved to be raped but in the context of the story you have to understand that everyone in that town was an asshole responsible for a ghastly crime.

[Nitram]

29. That's right, Luthier.

And Eastwood plays anything but the traditional Western good guy.

[mountain grammy]

12. His head is as empty as a chair..

He and Trump can go to hell..

[book_worm]

13. It's not that they weren't considered racist then (they were) it's that the federal and state

government in most states allowed it and the Supreme Court thru Plessy vs. Ferguson sanctioned it.

[SCVDem]

14. I really like Clint.

Too bad my Clint died over 15 years ago.

A man's got to know his limitations!

[Roy Rolling]

20. Perfect

The irony is magnetic. Or something like that.

He's gone from "man's gotta know his limitations" to "you kids get off my lawn!"

[Nitram]

24. I once admire the man as a director and an actor.

Between his neanderthal political stance and that farce about the "White Man's Burden", Grand Torino, he is now dead to me.

[heaven05]

15. true on all counts

green book, safest way around "sundowns" and other dangerous places for AA motorists ect.

[lonestarnot]

21. Bad and f-ugly and stupid to boot.

[Nitram]

25. Including a comment about whether Eastwood is good-looking or not kind of

weakened your whole post. Just sayin'.

[lonestarnot]

38. Iyo.

[spanone]

23. fuck clint.

[raven mad]

30. Not kidding - I spent a lot of time in Alabama.

And have actually seen a greenbook - yes, it was historical and yes, totally disgusting. Even at the time I was there, "Bull" Conner laws (never official, of course) were in effect.

[mercuryblues]

31. being

raped by your white boss, then bearing a child. 60+ years later have it presented to the press that it was a romantic relationship.

Your white boss could refuse to pay black employees, because they had no recourse. Another reason to have strong unions.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

35. Oh, poor Clint. Just imagine how hard it is to be him.