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dougola t1_irwdxcq wrote

Reply to comment by MindYerOwnBusiness in TIL Bing Crosby, called the first multimedia star, recorded over 1600 songs and 70 feature films by PicardTangoAlpha

>He was a racist POS. Straight-up on TV said that if his daughter dated a black man he would dis-own her.

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Zulrock123 t1_irwfv4j wrote

Checks bio, Irish-American white man in the 1930s-1970s. Seems like a common and basically non controversial opinion for his time.

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WR810 t1_irwt7gj wrote

Reminds me of that Bill Burr bit about John Wayne's Playboy interview.

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placeaccount t1_irwtq8g wrote

My father, back in the early 70s, told me that if I ever married a black ("colored") girl, he would disown me. I could be friends, but don't ever marry one. Bing was born in 1903 and my father was born in 1922, so roughly the same era.

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