Hawkeye a racist?


Correct me if i'm wrong and i probably am,but doesn't Hawkeye use the n word after the black sgt. of the motorpool leaves him and walks away just before Duke shows up.

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It was the 50's, a lot of good people were racist. I learned from Bob Clark. There's a deleted scene from PORKY'S where a good guy cop uses the N-word. "So long boys, gotta find some N-word(s)." Fox had them cut the rest of the line from the movie because the cop is supposed to be a good character.


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He says, "racist."

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He definitely says racist and does not use the N word.

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Pablo's right. Hawkeye calls the sergeant (there isn't a real good look at him but I think he's black) racist. That's just him being flippant though. He's not racist; when Duke's worried about sharing a tent with the black football player he only half-jokingly pushes him over.

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When they're talking about the football player that used to play for 49-ers they refer to him using the n word.
That is what the OP was talking about.

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Duke uses the word "nigra", which was a Southernism polite ones used. It is a cross between Negro and *beep* I lived in Alabama when I was 4 to 6 years old and I remember people using the word. Duke is a Southerner, and he uses the word in connection with Spearchucker when they first talk about bringing him in as the ringer for the football game.

Funny line from that moment: It's bad enough I have to room with you two Yankees.

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If there was reference I don't recall it being carried over to the television series. I remember at least two episodes, but probably more, where Hawkeye was very much the opposite. One was where a platoon leader wanted a black soldier sent home, pretending that he cared, over a white soldier that had more severe injuries. If I remember correctly, but it has been awhile since I've seen it, Hawkeye led a scheme to have the platoon leader appear as if he was AWOL. Another was something about Hawkeye treating a North Korean soldier first over an American soldier. I know this has nothing to do with the movie, but the subject line brought this to mind.

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I have the M*A*S*H dvd and just reviewed it. No, I did not see or hear Hawkeye use the n-word about the motorpool sergeant. Where did this rumour get started? You can tell the people who wrote and produced MASH were liberals. The characters in the movie were largely enlightened liberal types except for major Burns and the blonde female major.

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I just watched it too and agree ^.


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I agree, Duke was saying either "nigra" or "negro", not the other N-word.
However, there was the scene in the football game where Corporal Judson declares "that bastard, 88, called me a coon" ... which was (and still is) a racist term.

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I just watched the movie this evening, and I'm pretty sure Duke referred to Spearchucker as a *beep*

As others have said, it was the '50s. Also, the whole tone of the humour is radically politically incorrect--racist, sexist, homophobic etc.

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Duke doesn't call Spearchucker anything worse than his name (which is pretty bad in itself, but taken from the book and played off well by Fred Williamson). "Nigra" was a Southern term derived from "negro" that has darker connotations to Northern ears.

The worst word in the movie about black people is uttered by a black man reporting on how a white opponent used the word "coon" to upset him in a football game. Dr. Jones (not using that NAME again) tells his teammate to use his head and know he's being played for cheap penalty yards, and come back with something more crafty, like calling out the looseness of the white player's sister.

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The only thing that comes close to "the N-word" is Duke using the term "negra" to describe Spearchucker; Player 88 calls Judson a coon, but that's it.

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No, he calls the motorpool sergeant a racist.

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