Posted on 02/24/2019 1:17:23 PM PST by Ennis85
Critics are calling for the John Wayne Airport in Southern California to be renamed after a 1971 "Playboy" interview resurfaced this week.
A Los Angeles Times opinion piece from earlier this week highlighted opinions the former movie star voiced in the interview on black people, gay people and Native Americans.
Wayne, who was 63 at the time of the interview, said he believed in "white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility."
He also mentioned "tests" which proved black people did not have "requisite background" to attend college.
When asked which films he called "perverted," Wayne listed 1969’s “Easy Rider” and “Midnight Cowboy,” before using anti-gay slurs to discuss the films.
Wayne said that Native Americans were "were selfishly trying to keep" the U.S. "for themselves."
“Orange County today is such an economically and ethnically diverse community that it’s hard to justify asking any member of that community to board planes at an airport named after an outspoken racist and homophobe, with his strutting statue occupying a central niche in front of the concourse,” columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote for the LA Times.
Some have come to Wayne's defense, saying that it is unfair to call out an interview from 50 years ago.
“Removing his name from Orange County’s airport now only validates what many Americans are coming to believe: You can’t say anything anymore, darn it, without being discovered and punished by the mob,” Madeline Fry wrote in the Washington Examiner.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
someone remind these people: Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to homosexuality as a perversion.
saying that it is unfair to call out an interview from 50 years ago.
It was not John Wayne who said it, it was Mohammed Ali.
I don’t remember Easy Rider being perverse.
And didn’t the motorcycle have a stars and
stripes gas tank?
Drive to Lax then...............
Lets add FDR to that list since he nominated a KKK member to the SCOTUS and Margaret Sanger too. The founders of what they believe in were also racists.
“...someone remind these people: Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to homosexuality as a perversion...”
Quick!!!! Gotta change the name of all these streets in every city in America!!!! Can’t have this!!!!!
What was the name of that 1974 WWII book by Cornelius Ryan?
Oh yes:
A BRIDGE TOO FAR.
Confederate statues pulled down by laughing mobs, tombstones defaced and shattered,white people denounced as all KKK white racists,sponsors withdrawing from Bill O’Reilly,Tucker Carlson,Laura Ingraham,Rush and others, Colin and hangers-on denigrating our American flag,President Trump and family threatened by “comics”, rock stars,TV and Hollywood people.
John Wayne defamed and denigrated. A bridge too far....
Everything he said was true and very unremarkable in 1971.
Do you want to give responsibility to irresponsible people?
Wasn’t Midnight Cowboy about a homosexuel escort?
And best of all, are socialist not into “Share the Wealth”?(Indians were “land rich”)
Hypocrites, Leftist are all hypocrites.
Intelligent analysis requires judging a man by the standards of his time. Playing “gotcha” with old quotes is just childish cultural Marxism.
Judging people of the past by current standards implies that we haven’t made progress.
With regard to John Wayne and the idea that black people need to be educated, there was an effort back then to improve education for black people so they could take their rightful place in society. It was called the civil rights movement.
Regarding using the word perverted to refer to, e.g., Easy Rider. Easy Rider wasn’t a pro-gay firm. It was a pro-hippie, pro-dope and pro-exploitation film. However, it did have a happy ending.
after a 1971 “Playboy” interview
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If men only bought Playboy to look at the pictures and NOT as the old joke said “just to read the articles” then they never read the John Wayne interview and I say it does not exist for that reason. Remember the philosophical question: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it really make a sound?
No.
And John Wayne stays.
My points?
1. Anti-gay comments were common and accepted back in the 20th century, and...
2. Those whining about John Wayne's speech are, beneath the surface, all about vilifying a conservative American Icon; and, alleged "hate speech" is just a convenient cudgel. Next, and importantly, they will be campaigning to have Waynes' movies be denounced and unshown.
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"It is the seriousness of the charge, not who said it."
My first words were “dada”. Wonder if that’ll come back to haunt me?
These people are trolls. They contribute nothing to this world, they only try to feel good by pushing over something that someone else built. Not a bit of what they say matters or makes a difference, it shouldn’t be given the time of day.
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