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Critics call for John Wayne Airport to be renamed after interview resurfaces
The Hill ^ | 24th February 2019 | CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: airport; homosexuality; johnwayne; racism
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To: Redmen4ever
However, it did have a happy ending.

Yep!

21 posted on 02/24/2019 1:32:23 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: albie
My first words were “dada”.

You mocked Idi Amin Dada!!!!

22 posted on 02/24/2019 1:33:13 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ennis85

The Left LOVES TO JUDGE history by the cultural mores of today.......except when it comes to THEIR ICONS.


23 posted on 02/24/2019 1:33:17 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: Ennis85

And Robert “sheets” Byrd. KKK Grand Wizard and Democrat U.S. Senator. Has a gazillion buildings with his name on them.


24 posted on 02/24/2019 1:34:53 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: CommieCutter

And don’t forget the concentration camps he set up for Japanese Americans.


25 posted on 02/24/2019 1:35:05 PM PST by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: Ennis85

Sounds like they want to rename everything and eventually rename the country.


26 posted on 02/24/2019 1:38:56 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Redmen4ever

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.


27 posted on 02/24/2019 1:39:22 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: Ennis85

OK.

Let’s rename it

The John Wayne Says Democrats Blow Airport

I could live with that.


28 posted on 02/24/2019 1:40:17 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: albie

Dadaism was counter-cultural, in its’ day.


29 posted on 02/24/2019 1:41:13 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Ennis85

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.


30 posted on 02/24/2019 1:44:54 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: Drew68
The Hill has picked up this story now, great.

The path is clear for a complete rewrite of history.

31 posted on 02/24/2019 1:46:48 PM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: sparklite2

stars and stripes (gas tank) may be Just what they object to


32 posted on 02/24/2019 1:49:22 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: albie

Yes, you were calling for Idi Amin! Look up the name.


33 posted on 02/24/2019 1:49:42 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Ennis85

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.


34 posted on 02/24/2019 1:50:51 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: Berosus

"That's two D's, two A's and One Gun!"

35 posted on 02/24/2019 1:51:22 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ennis85

50 years ago, this didn’t raise an eyebrow.

Now the man is dead, it’s safe to attack him

Lefty cowards.


37 posted on 02/24/2019 1:52:18 PM PST by hattend
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To: Ennis85

Meanwhile, Louisville just renamed its’ airport after a man who once called a black man a “Gorilla”.


38 posted on 02/24/2019 1:52:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: frank ballenger

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.


39 posted on 02/24/2019 1:53:08 PM PST by Redmen4ever (u)
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To: Ennis85
"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

— 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.

40 posted on 02/24/2019 1:53:53 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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