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 ...
As George Orwell noted, those who control the present, control the past. We must stop these leftists from erasing history.
JoMa
...Born in Corning, New York, Sanger spent more than 30 years in Arizona and died in Tucson in 1966, a registered Republican. She even held meetings of the Republican Women’s Club in her Tucson home...
...In 1937, Sanger teamed with Peggy Goldwater, the wife of Arizona’s legendary politician, Barry Goldwater, to open Phoenix’s first birth control clinic. Later, as a U.S. senator, Barry became a champion for women’s reproductive rights.
In 1995, Planned Parenthood named a prestigious award after Goldwater and it has been given annually to a courageous state or federal Republican public policy maker. Goldwater himself was cited in Phoenix in 1997 when Planned Parenthood held its annual meeting there. I had the honor of presenting the award to his second wife, Susan (Peggy had died in 1985) and his daughter, Joanne, as he was too ill then to attend in person...
Wherever the Duke’s final resting place is, it now needs to be guarded 24/7.
Do you have a link to that thread. I’d like to read that BS.
Don’t get me wrong. The film is a work of genius and the motorcycles - especially Peter Fonda’s - are iconic.
Among the things you see in the film is hatred of Southern white men. They are depicted as gap-toothed, slack-jawed, intolerant and violent. Nowadays, the elitists treat all non-gay or metrosexual men this way. (Hence, the thread is about renaming John Wayne Airport.)
Regarding the Fonda’s iconic motorcycle (and American flag helmet), back in those days, the cultural left put American flags onto a lot of things. Today, we view this as patriotic. It has caught on. (Yes, somethings that the cultural left advance catch on.) But, at the time, it was considered by slow-changing conservatives to be irreverent. Ditto American flag athletic wear and bikinis.
As for me, I think - when a pretty girl is wearing an American flag bikini - I should salute.
“Critics” can go pound sand.
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As for me, I think - when a pretty girl is wearing an American flag bikini - I should salute.
They’ve tried to lure working taxpayers back (especially those high earners working in Newark but living in suburbs) with the concept of a “teachers’ village” in the downtown (which is a dangerous ghost town after dark); they were marketed to teachers working in area schools originally (hence the name), but it is really an attempt to get the office workers of the remaining companies to settle there rather than race out at 5:00 pm. It is similar to the “strategic hamlets” of the Vietnam War (fortified compounds surrounded by dangerous people), with the added incentive of proximity to mass transit escape points. The problem is that they think they’ll attract a Hoboken-type demographic, but those young tech-savvy people know it is a dangerous area (like some foreign resorts) where you basically can’t leave the premises safely - so they pass on living there. Very close by (Harrison, NJ - just south of me) this concept seems to be working - large multi-unit housing constructions with retailers on the ground floor, next to train access to NYC - because it is a white/Hispanic area rather than black. There is some crime, but nothing on the scale or ferocity encountered in Newark. Harrison also offers nice restaurants, and the “NJ” MLS team (NY Red Bulls) built a new stadium a couple of blocks from this new housing. Newark wanted all that investment and redevelopment, but Harrison and Jersey City are getting it instead; both are a bit closer to NYC via the PATH (Newark is the last stop, west of them) and they were just better bets.
A few years ago Newark offered vacant lots to people on Valentine’s Day for $1,000 apiece on the conditions that they built on them and lived there for five years (similar to some HUD requirements); Newark residents lined up to buy them, and for the next two years the project was revisited by the media - and had failed horribly. Few of the lots sold were ever developed, as the buyers realized they were effectively being turned from public assistance/housing “takers” into property tax-paying “makers”; we don’t get annual updates on that project anymore.
Even as they try to shoehorn immigrants (including illegals) into NJ to offset the dwindling American population, even those people are avoiding Newark; the exodus is happening so fast, those immigrants can settle in much nicer areas (even if it involves illegally-converted apartments and such). Newark is a transit hub (trains/port/airport) at this point; it offers little else.
I don’t have a link, and since the last FR formatting change it’s hard to find stuff.
There are comments on this thread just before yours that said the same nonsense.
Is it true that John Wayne always had an apple pie in his saddlebag?
1984 anyone?
One of these days one of these snowflakes in CA will discover Saint Bernardine’s teachings on gays. Then, what poofter will they rename the city of San Bernardino to?
Wow! That’s interesting. I didn’t know all that and I was a homeowner on the northeast corridor line passing Newark & Harrison (dreary little depot!) and the Frank Lautenberg Mausolium,,,er, Station, before cutting out 3 months ago. It’s sad because I have fond memories of Newark as a child but its been a disaster for decades as has its representatives. I suppose it’ll never come back...
I don’t see it recovering, primarily because potential investors see no hope in it. After they duped the NJ Devils to play hockey there (and after fighting to wring revenue from them, the owner publicly stated he would never have moved there if he knew they’d do that), the NJ Nets simply left NJ to play in Brooklyn - despite statewide pleas for them to move to Newark instead. Just because residents play basketball doesn’t mean they’ll be paying customers/consumers; in fact, the location would probably lower attendance considerably. The arena in Newark doesn’t have much parking; they really thought they’d force sheeple onto mass transit to attend events there (similar to the Garden in NYC, but with a very different fan base). They have to use companies’ lots in the area for parking, and then fans would wait blocks away for a shuttle - easy pickings for the ferals. When they built the PAC (Performing Arts Center) in downtown Newark, they made sure parking was available, and visitors could easily get in and out on Route 280 - the target market was wealthy residents of western Essex County (West Orange, Livingston, etc. - people who would NOT wait for a shuttle on some remote corner).
BTW, a similar issue arose with the Lautenberg “Mausoleum” (I like that - thank you); they provided little parking, intending for people to arrive and leave on mass transit, and it was a ghost town - the concessions weren’t making money, and eventually they accepted reality and put in a lot more parking (they never originally wanted it to become a “park and ride”, and now it is - and it is being utilized much more).
TO.... HOAX
Perhaps these Marxists can name the things that don’t offend them.
After every last road, bridge or building named after Robert KKKBryd is renamed, then we can talk about John Wayne
Whole lot of MLK boulevards going to have to be renamed. Maybe to Harvey Milk Boulevard? See how that goes down in the “community”.
Hypocritical much?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisville-airport-will-be-renamed-after-muhammad-ali-n959706
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/muhammad-ali-on-race/
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