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A meme purportedly featuring actor John Wayne's thoughts on white supremacy has been circulating on the internet for several years: While many memes and macros of this nature often possess either incorrect or inaccurate attributions, this quote is completely real. It first appeared in an interview with Playboy magazine that was published in May 1971: Wayne was responding to a question about Angela Davis, a counter-culture activist, communist, and professor in San Francisco: Wayne elaborated on his views about ethnicity and racism, saying that he believed that black people had the right to attend college as long as they passed the requisite tests, and that he did not believe that the black community was disadvantaged. When asked about his own hiring practices, Wayne said that while he did not discriminate against black actors or crew members, he didn't seek them out either: This Playboy interview contained one other quote that is frequently shared in meme form:
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