His wife is black, and she's not the first. I read that he recently was at a fundraiser and was photographed talking to Moochelle, who was seated next to him. He was all animated in expression as he spoke to Moochelle.
He said what he said to impress Moochelle....and I wonder what he expects in return. He's such a kiss azz and lover boy!
John Wayne loved the Latin ladies, married four of them, the last from Peru. I think two or three of them had the same name even (like Johnny Carson marrying every woman west of the Rockies named Joanna).
Wayne's funerary epitaph, which he wrote himself, was Feo, Fuerte, y Formal -- how he liked to be seen. He often used a little Spanish in his movie lines, too.