Marlon Brando refused his Academy Award in 1973 for the lead role in The Godfather and had Native American Sacheen Littlefeather walk onstage instead. She delivered a quick message detailing how Hollywood depictions of Indians, Blacks, Asians, and many other ethnicities and cultures abused minorities by perpetuating racist stereotypes. Littlefeather, an Apache, couldn't deliver her full message because of time constraints but offered the complete text to the media following the telecast. In spite of her gracious delivery of Brando's intentions to refuse the award, some in the crowd booed. Some other Hollywood stars including John Wayne, Raquel Welch, and Clint Eastwood mocked Brando's crusade of enlightenment by cracking jokes later during the show. It was Hollywood's first massive WOKE moment at
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MAKE AMERICA LISTEN AGAIN: Kentucky high school boys Make America Garish Again, some blame needs to be assigned to adult chanters and Native American drummers encroaching on students’ space
There is plenty of blame to go around as we learn more about the heavily publicized story of high school boys mocking a Native American drum chant group. It turns out the lead agitator at the Lincoln Memorial was from the Black Hebrew Israelites, demeaning nearby white people as "peckerwoods" and labeling Native Americans as "savages" and "Uncle Tomahawks." (He begins shouting at the Kentucky students at about 59:00 in the video). The video comment threat includes this breakdown of events: Jerkbag Buttington III 7 hours ago 1:06:45 threatening an innocent bystander with violence 1:07:40 calls the kids "incest babies" 1:15:20 calls the kids "future school shooters" 1:24:53 is booed when he lets loose with homophobic slurs 1:27:00 "there will be no peace until there is bloodshed" There is additional