F em. Move it to a place where patriots appreciate them.
I bet they would not have to look hard to cancel ones like Danny Kaye and other liberal Democrats of the time concerning remarks they made about blacks or gays and some of it would make Wayne’s 1971 remarks look very benign and tame by comparison.
One of USC’s greatest presidents was Rufus von KleinSmid who transformed the university into a world-class institution of higher learning. In 1966 the Von KleinSmid Center, which houses the schools of political science, public administration and international relations (and where I got my first master’s degree, in IR). was established in his honor. However under the leadership of USC’s new “woke” president Carol Folt, Von KleinSmidt’s name has been taken off the center and his statue has been removed because he wrote some articles favoring eugenics back in the 1920’s.
But don’t expect the SJW’s to be satisfied. Traveler, the famous horse who gallops around the Coliseum when the Trojans score a touchdown is under attack because he shares the name of General Robert E. Lee’s horse, and because he is white. And atop Bovard Tower are statues of racists that include the Reverend John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Marcus Cicero.
Personally, John Wayne was a great defender of the Native Americans, and did much to support them. Many of his movies show support for these people, one scene I remember from McClintock, Wayne tells his daughter that his entire ranch is going back to the Indians upon his death.
The Duke himself may have gotten upset that a casual remark he made (the sort of thing that certainly would have been edited out of an interview in magazines throughout the 30’s-60’s) got into print. Most of us would never have have heard about it anyway. After all, men didn’t buy Playboy for the interviews. It’s a single blasted interview, yet we’ve got deem John Wayne “inappropriate” over it.
Likewise for the call of the complete removal of Kate Bush singing “God bless America” in sporting stadiums because she recorded another single obscure song, now deemed “offensive”.
I’m counter-offended when they start “cancelling” people that have passed away over what’s essentially trivial crud that SJWs had to dig up and research to find “anything” offensive.
All “diversity” officials at all institutions and organizations are the new extremely well indoctrinated political police, and thought police, like the SS in Hitler’s Germany. The insertion of these type of individuals everywhere began at least a decade ago, but even then the roles they are now being given was preplanned by the Marxist academics that initiated the development of these positions.
*University* of Southern *California*
Now that’s an oxymoron.