During an interview on the The Dick Cavett Show in 1973, Marlon Brando gave some insights into his reasons for walking away from the approval of his peers:
“I read a book called, “Indians of the Americas” and after reading the book I realized that I knew nothing about the American Indian, and everything that we are taught about the American Indian is wrong. It’s inaccurate, and our schoolbooks are hopelessly lacking, criminal lacking in revealing what our relationship was with the Indian.
When we hear, as we’ve heard throughout our lives no matter how old we are, that we are a country that stands for freedom, for rightness or justice for everyone, it simply doesn’t apply to those who are not white. It just simply doesn’t apply.
We were the most rapacious, aggressive, destructive, torturing, monstrous, people who swept from one coast to the other murdering and causing mayhem among the Indians. That isn’t revealed, because we don’t like that image of ourselves.
Indians have been tragically misrepresented in films, and in our history books, in our attitudes, in our reporting…
So we must set about to re-educate ourselves.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/marlon-brando-how-stop-caring-what-other-people-think-mayo-oshin-/
2 opmerkingen:
Misconceptions About Native Americans w/S.C. Gwynne | Joe Rogan
https://youtu.be/JMWPP-vXzhQ
dit weerlegt de opmerkingen van brando niet. overigens zijn de feiten die gepresenteerd worden allang bekend. dat rogan zo verbaasd is zegt meer over hem dan over bepaalde indiaanse volkeren.
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