' Was Walter Brennan a Racist '
I grew up loving Walter Brennan. In movies and tv. I just recently heard something very disturbing. That when he heardMLK was killed he dancea jig!?
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people do this all the time now. they try to apply what they live today to a generation of people they never knew or met.could you picture kennedy and nixon being asked in a t.v.debate about birth control and condoms? the more you hear this the sillier it is.
shareI see this excuse all the time, "It' was a different time, a different generation." Dancing a jig because you've heard a man has been assassinated is pretty damn shameful, I don't care what generation you're from.
I'd hate to think it's true as well, but I have heard the same story.
did he dance a jig? i don't know personally. i wasn't there.
shareHe was one of the most rightwing players in Hollywood. In 1968 he and Chill Wills supported George Wallace for president and 1972 Brennan supported John Schmitz who ran on
the Wallace American Independent Party as president.
Pitters Go Into Your Dance
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I knew that about Wills.
One of my favorite alltime TV moments is when Wills accidentally cuts his throat with a futuristic scalpel in a Night Gallery episode.
Slavery was from a different time. That doesn't make any less horrible the condition of slavery. Those that try and justify low life activities as what Brennan said or did, are in reality racist as well. Emmitt Till hung and burnt. Aww that's okay it's a different time.
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