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Reason 56894 Why Clint Eastwood Rocks

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Jason McLellan| 1 Comment

In a recent interview Clint “kept it real” by saying not only what was on his mind but for being right.

He says the world would be a better place if we could still laugh at inoffensive jokes about different races. The actor and director, 78, said we live in constant fear of being labelled racist for simply laughing about national stereotypes. ‘People have Lost their sense of humour,’ he told Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine.

‘In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth otherwise you will be insulted as a racist. I find that ridiculous. In those earlier days every friendly clique had a “Sam the Jew” or “José the Mexican” – but we didn’t think anything of it or have a racist thought.’

‘It was normal that we made jokes based on our nationality or ethnicity. That was never a problem. I don’t want to be politically correct. We’re all spending too much time and energy trying to be politically correct about everything.’

Daily Mail for full story.

Again just to claify I think he is totally right. We really have to learn to laugh at ourselves. This reminds me of a personal story of mine. So join me as I walk down memory lane.

A few years back when I was still taking jujitsu me and a friend of mine (who is black, African-American, whatever) were sparring and I ended up basically with my crotch in his face. He then says “Damn, I’m glad you white guys really do have small dicks. If you were a brother I couldn’t breathe right now” to which I replied, “Well at least my pubic hair doesn’t also cover my head.” We had a good laugh about it. I mean really why get all upset about bullshit. You know?

**editors note: My penis is huge.

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Reason number 4581 why Clint Eastwood rocks

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Jason McLellan| 2 Comments

So apparently Spike Lee has been running his mouth again. Only this time instead of suing Spike tv for stealing his nickname, because his real name is Shelton Jackson Lee. He has set his sights on Clint Eastwood. Bad idea “Spike”.

Here is what ~~Spike~~ Shelton had to say in regards to the Eastwood film Flags of our Fathers.

“Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen. If you reporters had any balls you’d ask him why. There’s no way I know why he did that … But I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It’s not like he didn’t know.”

So in a recent interview this prompted Clint to set little Shelton straight.

Eastwood justified his choice of actors, saying that those black troops who did take part in the battle as part of a munitions company didn’t raise the flag. The battle is known by the image of US marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi.
Eastwood said, “The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go: ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.” Referring to Lee, he added: “A guy like him should shut his face.”

Hahahaha wait there’s more.

Defending the racial make-up in his films as historically accurate, Eastwood referred to another of his films, Changeling, which was set in Los Angeles before the city had a large group of African-Americans. “What are you going to do, you going to tell a fuckin’ story about that?” he said. “Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I’m not in that game. I’m playing it the way I read it historically, and that’s the way it is. When I do a movie and it’s 90% black, like Bird, then I use 90% black people.
“He was complaining when I did Bird (the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker). Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that’s why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else.”

Poor little Shelton. Maybe he should just stick to saying “It must be the shoes money” for Nike.