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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: Robe

“Drive to Lax then............... ”

No worries, AOC and her Commie cronies intend to eliminate commercial airlines within ten years. So, no need for airports. Problem solved, sarc/


41 posted on 02/24/2019 1:54:18 PM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: Ennis85

They want to take John Wayne’s name off of it because he is a symbol of “toxic masculinity”.


42 posted on 02/24/2019 1:59:09 PM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: bkopto

I remember Orange County from the ‘50’s, 60’s and early ‘70’s and haven’t been back since 1975. . It must be a shithole today. What a waste.


43 posted on 02/24/2019 1:59:36 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: SoFloFreeper
someone remind these people: Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to homosexuality as a perversion.

The SPLC just marked you down as committing a thought crime - oops, I mean 'hate crime'...

44 posted on 02/24/2019 2:00:48 PM PST by GOPJ (The Jussie Smollett Media Hoax is a hate crime against Trump Supporters - - John Nolte)
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To: Ennis85

Bush, Trump, Christianity, marriage, - they can mess with them if they want.
But don’t mess around with John Wayne.


45 posted on 02/24/2019 2:01:19 PM PST by oldbill
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To: Ennis85
Well...

What Jussie Smollett did wasn't very smart, but I don't think that's what Wayne was referring to.

-PJ

46 posted on 02/24/2019 2:01:37 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to homosexuality as a perversion.

Dr. King was right. But the word he used to describe these heathen freaks was too mild.

47 posted on 02/24/2019 2:03:34 PM PST by upchuck (... to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. ~ Steve Schmutzer)
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To: JBW1949

Dont do that it lets me know where to look while house hunting


48 posted on 02/24/2019 2:05:02 PM PST by Bell Bouy II
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To: Ennis85

I don’t really think the Duke would want his name on an airport in the communist state of Cauliphonya anyway. Probably just as well they rename it the Barack Obama Airport Bong Shop and Adult Book Store.


49 posted on 02/24/2019 2:05:34 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: rovenstinez

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.”

This was not an uncommon sentiment at the time, and was probably more a reflection of what happened when Europeans granted independence in Africa. The brutal killings in Kenya (Mau Mau, prior to independence), Congo (Stanleyville massacre), and Uganda (which was ongoing under Obote at the time of this interview) led many people to hold similar positions - and it wasn’t regarded as “racist”. There was almost a sympathy for blacks that had been handed power with no training; millions (of blacks) died since then. Almost a million died in Rwanda alone in less than a year in the 1990s...


50 posted on 02/24/2019 2:07:06 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Ennis85

The 1st Amendment says the government can’t punish us for things we say.

And now, what is our government considering doing?


51 posted on 02/24/2019 2:07:18 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Ennis85

So then, the procedure for liberal radical types is:

1. Dig and dig into old interviews or statements made by people who you dislike.

2. Use these decades old statements, made in a different time with different cultural norms, and proclaim that such person is racist sexist xenophobic homophobic etc.

3. Stir up outrage that someone many years ago did not have a 21st century politically correct conscience or worldview.

4. Proclaim that the reviled person is this unfit to have any public facility named in his honor.

5. Drum up support to change the name of any place named for the reviled person.

Is this really a major crisis? That an airport is named for John Wayne, and our liberal overlords complain that the minority population of Orange county, must of course be offended by such name?


52 posted on 02/24/2019 2:07:40 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: kearnyirish2

Even some Leftists touted the idea of “Recolonialization” albeit this time for more humane reasons.


53 posted on 02/24/2019 2:10:15 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ennis85

Life is hard, it’s even harder if your stupid.


54 posted on 02/24/2019 2:10:55 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Redmen4ever


           Unamerican?

55 posted on 02/24/2019 2:11:15 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: sparklite2

At least Dennis Hopper became a Conservative later in life.


56 posted on 02/24/2019 2:12:09 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ennis85

Might as well, I’m sure The Duke would be ashamed to be associated with much of what society has become. He’d probably offer to shove his Oscars where the sun don’t shine too, except they’d enjoy it.


57 posted on 02/24/2019 2:13:45 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Redmen4ever

That viewpoint makes sense. I have a dim memory of the “plot” of that supposed classic.


58 posted on 02/24/2019 2:13:58 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: mountainlion

They renamed Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis because Calhoun owned slaves or something four hundred years ago.

http://www.startribune.com/the-state-dnr-approve-changing-lake-calhoun-to-bde-maka-ska/469990923/


59 posted on 02/24/2019 2:14:29 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: CommieCutter

Just this week a “Freeper” swore up and down that Margaret Sanger was a lifelong conservative Republican.


60 posted on 02/24/2019 2:15:14 PM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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