WHO THE HELL CARES???
HE'S DEAD!!!!!
Get a life, people!

Many things would come into factor.
The sign of the times, his mother ingraining that poorer people carried more disease, and medications given for chronic pain after his near fatal plane crash.

Maybe in a 100-200 years most of the humanity (or at least the Western world) will stop eating beef, pork, etc. due to reasons still unknown to us today (maybe they'll find cheaper alternative, or be forced not to eat it, or find it causes deseases, or maybe they'll just find eating livestock gross and appaling). My point is, times may very well turn out to be way different and our generations will be condemned for many things we consider normal nowadays. Btw, do you like dogs? I hear in Vietnam and China they are crazy about dogs
The same way we consider humans superior to all the other species nowadays and like to think that Earth belongs to us, people back then considered blacks inferior race of disgusting filthy primitive beings/animals unworthy of equal rights. And due to seggregation and society norms there wasn't much interacting and whites didn't know much about blacks and it was extremely hard to get to know them and make friends with them, especially when every one around you would ostracize you as a N****r sympathiser. It took a lot of time for things to change.
I bet most of yall americans still dislike and refer to some people as those filthy ragheads, sand-N*****s, etc. in much the same way whites referred to blacks back then.
Btw many white peoples/nations were conquered and enslaved and lived much worse than black slaves, so you can't refer to all white folks as a whole in such negative sense, when in fact only a few western nations (plus jews, arabs, blacks, asians, etc.) traded with slaves (and not just black slaves).

I'm so sick of people using that "times were different" copout.
You want to play the game, you'd better know the rules, love.
-Harry Callahan

He sounds like a really screwed up person. Him being that extremely racist is disgusting, just because he was born back then is no pass to be that way towards Blacks and Jews. Not everyone was a racist back then, I get times were different but racism is racism. He was a piece of sh!t.
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The story about John Wayne is not true.
My father had some dealings with him as a cab driver back in the 30's and 40's. He said that Wayne always treated Black people respectfullyhimself include at a time when rudeness toward blacks was still the norm among many.

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It was common knowledge that Howard Hughes disliked blacks. It's been said that he used every opportunity to refer to blacks as "Darkies" or The "N" word.
I have also heard that John Wayne did not like blacks as well-Pure ignorance!

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Yes, I definitely think it had more to do with his OCD. He could have been racist but he really went to extraordinary lengths in his case. He seemed more "paranoid" of black people rather than contemptous.

Yes it is true HRH was not a big fan of black people sharing his space.

Actually, the argument that racism was accepted in his time isn't pathetic. It's a sad sad truth but it IS a truth. He was born in 1905 in Texas when racism was terrible, and sadly broadly accepted by the general public. It's not an excuse it's truth. A sad sad truth. Maybe if he were alive today, and not engulfed in utter insanity, he would take responsibility but I guess we'll never know.
I find it funny that you demand that people takes responsibility for their actions when on every other posts you are being generally hateful and arrogant, especially towards Americans.

"Rise up against" white people? Why not "rise up and join"? Chances are there are far more white people allies in this argument than there are adversaries. Look at Dr Martin Luther King. He lifted the voice of his people without raising "against" anyone or anything but an idea.
"I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar!" Dr Zoidberg, Futurama

My Uncle worked at Hughes tool in Houston from the late 1940s until he retired in the early 70s, and he worked with blacks at hughes, of course i don't think hughes gave a damn about that company other than it was a stepping stone to finance his many projects (most of his own companies made him much more money than the seed money did from his daddies hughes tool) if he was a racist, he did not apply it to his original company, but like i said maybe he just did not pay that much attention.

well see most people form that era were very racist even my Grandfather(God rest his soul) was extremely racist

essexb1,
I did go over the top in my last post, and I apologize. However, my point still stands. There is no excuse for someone's racist views, in spite of the fact that they grew up in a racist society. Poeple ought to be accountable at a certain age.
I'm not sure when I issued a "war cry." However, I do believe that black people should "rise up" against white people. They have every right to. And I hardly want black supremacy, as I'm white. I'm not for any kind of supremacy. It would be awesome if we could achieve equality.
Still, the only way for second-class citizens to achieve equality is to "rise up." And when I say "rise up" I mean making their voice heard, hopefully peacefully.
Your love of the halfling's leaf has clearly slowed your mind.

It is a little silly to be worried about Hughes believing in Black inferority since that was the respectable opinion for people from his background in those days. The problem seems to be that he was FRIGHTENED of Black peopleas if they were cholera germs or syphilis or some other communicative disease. As Blacks started becoming more visible in the 50's and 60's most people adjusted to their presence regardless of their beliefs but Hughes became even more afraid. I am not saying that that was his only or even most importnat phobiabut it contrbuted to his disintegration.

It is a little silly to be worried about Hughes believing in Black inferority since that was the respectable opinion foor people from his background in those days. The problem seems to be that he was FRIGHTENED of Black peopleas if they were cholera germs or syphilis or some other communicative disease. As Blacks started becoming more visible in the 50's and 60's most people adjusted to their presence regardless of thir eliefs but Hughes became even more afraid. I am not saying that that was his only or even most importnat phobiabut it contrbuted t his disintegration.

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For gods sake why are there so many people carrying on about something that is in the past? God, maybe it was taboo for anyone back then to stand up and admit that they actually liked black people? Have u ever thought of that? We are all sheep in this world, we go with what everyone else says, and back then it was frowned upon in most places to like blacks. Today it is a hell of a lot more acceptable. The only problem is that you cant discuss anything about different races because you get accused of being 'racist', hence this big debate. Now Thats pathetic.
Ps. Why are people bringing up the KKK? Whats the point? Its sad.

Grimmchoices
You clearly have missed the point, did I not say in my post that White folk treating black folk the way they did back thb68en was a dark and dispicable act in history? To say I'm being racist is utter nonsense, please read the post again.
Given that the KKK came to prominance from the civil war and the subsequent abolition of slavery, did you not get the point that in the state of Texas, a former confederate state and where Hughes was born, that some white folk may of hated and blamed black people for the war? Is this wrong, of course it's bloody wrong, but then again so is segregation, but you still had that in your glorious USA.
You're quite correct, I do think slavery in any shape or form is wrong, do you think it is right then? I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to tell me here?
You said "There may be an excuse made for a grown person to share the misguided beliefs of their parents. However, for an adult to act on those beliefs is pathetic.". I don't think it would have been just his parents, but quite probably a large section of society that he mingled in were doing the same, and don't under-estimate the power of peer pressure, it makes the best of us do stupid things.
You say I'm a horrible person, you strike me as a very violent and disturbed person, with talk of stabbing Mexicans in the eyes, punching my lights out and rising up against the white race. I'm sorry but racism works both ways, for you to issue a "war cry" for black people to rise up against white people is a racist statement in it's self.
I get the feeling that you don't want equality among all men and women, you want black supremacy, and if you truly believe that one race should rise up and fight to be more dominant than the other, then you are just as racist as Howard Hughes was.

I don't know why he had an aversion to black people but it could most possibly be OCD. I have OCD and there was a time, not anymore, that I stayed away from a certain group of people. I did not hate those people and I had no prejudice against them whatsoever. Just being around those people would cause an unexplainable anxiety that was unbearable. OCD is a very complicated illness that is very hard to understand it if you don't have it. You don't pick the obsessions, the obsessions pick you.