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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 1969s 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 its 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 Countys airport now only validates what many Americans are coming to believe: You cant 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: bigbob
John Wayne's not dead, he's frozen
And as soon as we find a cure for cancer
We're gonna thaw out the Duke and he's gonna be pretty pissed off
You know why
Have you ever taken a cold shower?
Well multiply that by 15 million times
That's how pissed off the Duke's gonna be!
I'm gonna get the Duke, and John Cassavetes
And Lee Marvin, and Sam Peckinpah, and a case of whiskey
And drive down to Texas
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:15:42 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
At least Dennis Hopper became a Conservative later in life.
And Peter Fonda didn’t have to worry about getting
drafted, anyway, because of the military’s style of
last name first, first name last.
62
posted on
02/24/2019 2:16:04 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: RedMonqey
“And best of all, are socialist not into Share the Wealth?(Indians were land rich)”
I like that!!! Wealth redistribution, hard line communist style (aka Stalin) means taking land away be force.
Just another way to explain just how hypocritically loony the left is.
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:16:23 PM PST
by
redfreedom
(Elizabeth Warren has more Indian blood in her than journalism has truth.)
To: Ennis85
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." Maybe someone needs to show the snowflakes the history of many African nations after the white leaders were thrown out of office (and if they were lucky, escaped with their lives) in favor of a litany of Black "leaders" who turned their countries into 4th World Hell Holes in no time.
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:16:49 PM PST
by
ssaftler
(Beam me up, Scotty! There's no intelligent life left in this country!)
To: Ennis85
If they do this then Spike Lee needs to be treated like the hatemonger he is...
65
posted on
02/24/2019 2:17:13 PM PST
by
Vision
(Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
To: dfwgator
Mozambique is courting the white Rhodesians and South Africans to get food production up; Newark NJ is trying to attract the children and grandchildren of the white refugees who fled 50 years ago to get tax revenue up, but with little success.
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:18:16 PM PST
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: albie
“My first words were dada. Wonder if thatll come back to haunt me?”
Signs of toxic masculinity. So you admit your biased sexism from infancy?
67
posted on
02/24/2019 2:20:07 PM PST
by
LeoTDB69
To: redfreedom
"Just another way to explain just how hypocritically loony the left is
Yep!
To fight Leftist, you have to make them live by their own rules. Choke them on their own vomit.
"Alinsky rules.
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:20:39 PM PST
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: Beagle8U
I don’t know about ‘conservative’, but it’s well known that Margaret Sanger Slee was an active Republican and close friend of Barry and Peggy Goldwater.
69
posted on
02/24/2019 2:21:15 PM PST
by
jjotto
(Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
To: ssaftler
It can be focused a little tighter, too.
The immigrant Haitian community in Florida
was self-sustaining with their own businesses,
a work ethic, and strong culture. Even African
blacks disassociate themselves from the American branch.
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:24:02 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: Ennis85
'Critics' =
71
posted on
02/24/2019 2:24:09 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: Ennis85
Okay, change it to Marion Morrison Airport.
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:24:18 PM PST
by
real saxophonist
(One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
To: Ennis85
We need to rename and outlaw every MLK blvd. Every one is a sh*thole and and no go zone.
73
posted on
02/24/2019 2:26:04 PM PST
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: Ennis85
Waiting for that crowd to demand the renaming of Washington D.C.
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:34:05 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: Ennis85
Rename it the Jussie Smollett Airport.
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:34:06 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
To: Ennis85
Somebody better wake up and tell these people (all of them) to get !@#$ed. You do not rewrite history.
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:36:48 PM PST
by
TheZMan
(I am a secessionist.)
To: kearnyirish2
I’d love to hear more about the Newark story!!
To: Ennis85
naming things for people is often problematical.
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:38:29 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: jjotto
“In 1910, the Sangers moved to New York City, settling in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village. The area was a bohemian enclave known for its radical politics at the time, and the couple became immersed in that world. They socialized with the likes of writer Upton Sinclair and anarchist Emma Goldman. Sanger joined the Women's Committee of the New York Socialist Party and the Liberal Club. A supporter of the Industrial Workers of the World union, she participated in a number of strikes.”
https://www.biography.com/people/margaret-sanger-9471186
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:38:46 PM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
To: Bell Bouy II
I understand that...hehehe...
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posted on
02/24/2019 2:46:35 PM PST
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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