Marlon Brando Against Racist Hollywood Film Industry (1989)

Interview by Connie Chung (1989): Actor Activist Marlon Brando explains how he tried in vain for 10 years and spent millions of dollars, wrote many different movie screenplays to have a movie produced about the Genocide and Rights of Native American Indians. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0RAQVj9sNM

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Unfortunately the film was never made for reasons outside Brando's control: Hollywood Racism! MGM

Marlon Brando was an extraordinary human being and one of the first actor-activists to march for Black American and American Indian rights. He spoke out against racism often and forcefully. He marched in demonstrations. And he gave money to civil rights groups.

"When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their lands. We starved them into signing fraudulent agreements that we called treaties which we never kept. We turned them into beggars on a continent that gave life for as long as life can remember. And by any interpretation of history, however twisted, we did not do right. We were not lawful nor were we just in what we did. For them, we do not have to restore these people, we do not have to live up to some agreements, because it is given to us by virtue of our power to attack the rights of others, to take their property, to take their lives when they are trying to defend their land and liberty, and to make their virtues a crime and our own vices virtues." ~Marlon Brando

For the 45th Annual Academy Awards® in 1973, Liv Ullmann and Roger Moore presented the award and inspiring Marlon Brando (April 3, 1924 - July 1, 2004) did not attend and refused to accept the Oscar for his performance in The Godfather. American Indian Apache Sacheen Littlefeather represented him at the ceremony. She appeared in full Apache clothing and stated that owing to the "poor treatment of American Indians in the film industry", Brando would not accept the award. --THAT IS HOW CELIBRITIES SHOULD SUPPORT!--

Brando expressed his increasing disgust for the racist film industry and even for the acting profession. We need more celebrities following Marlon Brando's stand for social justice. An inspiring man who stood tall against injustice. Who is following that example today?

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