Black Entertainment : Actor James Garner Dies at 86/Coincidence?

Garner at the March on Washington

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Then he went home and told his wife he thought God left Dr. King and Diahann Carroll in the sun too long.

I don't know what was more offensive, the joke he told the black officers in that scene, or the fact that white people actually believed this as recently as the 60's and 70's. I think some still do. I wouldn't be surprised if some blacks actually believe this also.

I said I didn't like talking about people right after they were deceased, especially before they were even buried. Since this was many years ago, the issue may be more with the fact that the tv network even aired it at this day in time, especially on the day after he passed.
 
While he was being escorted into the squad car, he made the remark to the black officers, "Pretty god job, but John Wayne would have kept his back to the sun".

Are you sure this was meant as a racial slur? What preceded this scene? Did someone shoot at the cops from ambush or something and had they "had their backs to the sun," they would have seen the glint off the gun and been forewarned? I ask this because I look at The Rockford Files occasionally (it's one of the few old shows that doesn't seem overly dated) and I've NEVER seen anything remotely racist about the character or the writing. In all honesty, I am not getting anything racial out of the comment. :10500:
 
Are you sure this was meant as a racial slur? What preceded this scene? Did someone shoot at the cops from ambush or something and had they "had their backs to the sun," they would have seen the glint off the gun and been forewarned? I ask this because I look at The Rockford Files occasionally (it's one of the few old shows that doesn't seem overly dated) and I've NEVER seen anything remotely racist about the character or the writing. In all honesty, I am not getting anything racial out of the comment. :10500:
It was one of those sneaky jokes you had to think about. Usually when you have to think twice about a joke, it's often an insult.

In this scene. he was just getting arrested as usual, and getting roughed up as usually. There were two black cops handcuffing him. While he was being his normal nonchalant self, his chest was slammed once to the hood of the squad car after he was already handcuffed. That scene looked odd to me already, because I seldom saw any scene like that from any of the 70's shows with black cops acting that aggressive towards a white guy who wasn't even a threat. I don't really recall too many black people on The Rockford files period right off bat. Anyway, to tell the two black cops they were being a little too rough he said, "Good job, but John Wayne would have kept his back towards the sun". This meant although they thought they were tough like John Wayne, they were still black. If the real John Wayne had to be part black, he would have at least had enough sense to only let his backside be black by keeping his back to the sun, and not his face were everybody can notice it. In otherwords, the black cops still weren't white, the normal color; instead they got burnt. There's no other way I could have read that joke other than some kind of racial slur. Even if I'm wrong, it was put out there were it could be taken wrong. Anyway, the scene ended with one of the black officers saying, "What?" Not like he was offended, but like he didn't get it. But in real life, he would have got it the same way I did.
 
It was one of those sneaky jokes you had to think about. Usually when you have to think twice about a joke, it's often an insult.

In this scene. he was just getting arrested as usual, and getting roughed up as usually. There were two black cops handcuffing him. While he was being his normal nonchalant self, his chest was slammed once to the hood of the squad car after he was already handcuffed. That scene looked odd to me already, because I seldom saw any scene like that from any of the 70's shows with black cops acting that aggressive towards a white guy who wasn't even a threat. I don't really recall too many black people on The Rockford files period right off bat. Anyway, to tell the two black cops they were being a little too rough he said, "Good job, but John Wayne would have kept his back towards the sun". This meant although they thought they were tough like John Wayne, they were still black. If the real John Wayne had to be part black, he would have at least had enough sense to only let his backside be black by keeping his back to the sun, and not his face were everybody can notice it. In otherwords, the black cops still weren't white, the normal color; instead they got burnt. There's no other way I could have read that joke other than some kind of racial slur. Even if I'm wrong, it was put out there were it could be taken wrong. Anyway, the scene ended with one of the black officers saying, "What?" Not like he was offended, but like he didn't get it. But in real life, he would have got it the same way I did.

When he said, "What?" what was Rockford's reply.
 

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