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Listen here you black gorilla nigger I don't care for your kind.

>PLAYBOY: What kind of films do you consider perverted?
WAYNE: Oh, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy—that kind of thing. Wouldn't you say that
the wonderful love of those two men in Midnight Cowboy, a story about two fags,
qualifies? But don't get me wrong. As far as a man and a woman is concerned, I'm
awfully happy there's a thing called sex. It's an extra something God gave us. I see no
reason why it shouldn't be in pictures. Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
>PLAYBOY: You blame all this on liberals?
WAYNE: Well, the liberals seem to be quite willing to have Communists teach their kids
in school. The Communists realized that they couldn't start a workers' revolution in the
United States, since the workers were too affluent and too progressive. So the Commies
decided on the next-best thing, and that's to start on the schools, start on the kids. And
they've managed to do it. They're already in colleges; now they're getting into high
schools. I wouldn't mind if they taught my children the basic philosophy of communism,
in theory and how it works in actuality. But I don't want somebody like Angela Davis
inculcating an enemy doctrine in my kids' minds.
>PLAYBOY: Many militant blacks would argue that they have it better almost anywhere else. Even in Hollywood, they feel that the color barrier is still up for many kinds of jobs. Do you limit the number of blacks you use in your pictures?
WAYNE: Oh, Christ no. I've directed two pictures and I gave the blacks their proper
position. I had a black slave in The Alamo, and I had a correct number of blacks in The
Green Berets. If it's supposed to be a black character, naturally I use a black actor. But I
don't go so far as hunting for positions for them. I think the Hollywood studios are
carrying their tokenism a little too far. There's no doubt that 10 percent of the population
is black, or colored, or whatever they want to call themselves; they certainly aren't
Caucasian. Anyway, I suppose there should be the same percentage of the colored race in
films as in society. But it can't always be that way. There isn't necessarily going to be 10
percent of the grips or sound men who are black, because more than likely, 10 percent
haven't trained themselves for that type of work.
PLAYBOY: Can blacks be integrated into the film industry if they are denied training and education?
WAYNE: It's just as hard for a white man to get a card in the Hollywood craft unions.
>PLAYBOY: That's hardly the point, but let's change the subject. For years American Indians have played an important—if subordinate—role in your Westerns. Do you feelany empathy with them?
WAYNE: I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that's
what you're asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just 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.