Yep!
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 ...
Yep!
You mocked Idi Amin Dada!!!!
The Left LOVES TO JUDGE history by the cultural mores of today.......except when it comes to THEIR ICONS.
And Robert “sheets” Byrd. KKK Grand Wizard and Democrat U.S. Senator. Has a gazillion buildings with his name on them.
And don’t forget the concentration camps he set up for Japanese Americans.
Sounds like they want to rename everything and eventually rename the country.
However, it did have a happy ending.
(Easy Rider)….
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I only saw it once, first run at a theater. Was that a happy ending?
Bob Dylan refused to allow his name on the song “The Ballad of Easy Rider” which he allowed Roger McGuinn of the Byrds to take credit for. Bob Dylan wrote the first half of the song on a napkin at a restaurant and gave it to someone and said “Give this to Roger. He’ll know what to do.”
He said it was an unhappy ending because there was no return to kill the geeky killer as revenge. Without revenge Bob was infuriated and unsatisfied and backed out of the theme song chance.
OK.
Let’s rename it
The John Wayne Says Democrats Blow Airport
I could live with that.
Dadaism was counter-cultural, in its’ day.
I am positive, that people of every race, at one time in their life have made a very inappropiate statement, and later they realized what a stupid thing to say. So...let’s let John Waynes name stay, for all the good American movies he made. What do you say.
The path is clear for a complete rewrite of history.
stars and stripes (gas tank) may be Just what they object to
Yes, you were calling for Idi Amin! Look up the name.
Everyone living there should go to the airport and yell “Remember the Alamo”, which would honor one of his great roles. Then defend the sign.
"That's two D's, two A's and One Gun!"
50 years ago, this didn’t raise an eyebrow.
Now the man is dead, it’s safe to attack him
Lefty cowards.
Meanwhile, Louisville just renamed its’ airport after a man who once called a black man a “Gorilla”.
Those who see people coming into town to deal dope and seduce girls to be heroes, maybe they don’t appreciate justice they way I do.
— KKK Leader and Future Democrat Congressman and Senator Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
There are 56 places named for Robert Byrd in West Virginia, so the name changers have their work cut out for them.
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