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Posted on 02/23/2019 3:13:20 PM PST by OddLane
“A black man should be killed if he’s messing with a white woman.” This sentiment was uttered not in 1875 but 1975 — by a man with an airport named in his honor. This brings us to the effort to strip late actor John Wayne’s name from the airport in Orange County, California.
Those advocating such point to what they consider “the sheer crudeness of the actor’s feelings about gay people, black people, Native Americans, young people and liberals,” as the Los Angeles Times’ Michael Hiltzik puts it. But my opening, eyebrow-raising quotation is what’s truly shocking here. Let’s be fair: How can a man who uttered it have an airport named after him in 2019?
How?
Because the man who uttered it was not John Wayne.
It was late boxer Muhammad Ali...
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Hardy har har.
So the writer pulled a clever game of "gotcha" to catch those of us not reading.
Who cares?
John Wayne International will be renamed by the end of the year. Muhammad Ali's airport will never be renamed.
Still laughing?
Dunno why we didn’t erase all those dopey Hawaiian names when it applied for statehood. Most of them are unpronounceable and they sure as heck aren’t English.
Bump
LOL, nice.
It would be entertaining if it weren't such a frightening snapshot of what the left has been capitalizing on every day, every hour for decades. It's a powerful weapon, and this is what conservatism is up against, even among its own.
I understand why the article's author of this article wrote this as he did. It's effective....but, only to people who bother to read past the first few lines. It would have been perfect in another day, another time. Not so long ago, actually. But, today, half the country doesn't read at all, and far too many of the other half see a headline or read a lede and it's on to the next story.
If professed, informed conservatives on a conservative site don't bother to read past a headline, what's the likelihood that truth, facts and logic is going to reach those most lacking in it?
I admit I was hornswaggled by the presentation in light of the current outrage over the unpcthink of the late Mr. Morrison, and the author is clever to compare that to racial musings of the same era uttered by the late Mr. Clay, and didn’t read it closely ‘til I saw your post.
I remember after he died, the c-rat can openers that I’ve been told the army called P-38s, went from being known as “John Waynes” to “Dead Dukes” in the Marines. Sgt. Stryker loomed large in the image that the USMC embraced at the time, don’t know if that is still true or not.
Ali, not so much, he was sort of dismissed as a draft dodger, respected by many for his talent but certainly not the icon the John Wayne was.
In real life, Mr. Morrison chose Hollywood over actual service while the nation fought for survival, and his actions at the time indicate he had mixed feelings about it, taking some steps towards signing up, but ultimately accepting the deferments that he was given. A good case can be made that the deferments were legit and he did more for the war effort in front of a camera than he could of in a real uniform, but real service or not, John Wayne’s Hollywood image was embraced by the public and the USMC of my day.
While I enjoy a good John Wayne flick and recognize “the Greatest” probably was really just that in his prime, If it was up to me I’d settle the issue by renaming both airports. I’d go for Haerter and Yale.
Selwyn Duke needs to find a job.............
I love John Wayne- too bad we don’t have too many like him anymore....
The left doesn’t remember a word of his “I Have a Dream” speech or we wouldn’t be seeing the behavior we’ve seen since obozo came into our nightmares! He came on a mission and by golly - he succeeded! Lit a fire, threw gasoline on it and walked away!
“”So when are the democrats going after Byrd?””
You mean the man named after all those bridges in WVA? I stole that line from Ann Coulter from years ago - before FReepers decided they didn’t like her anymore!
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John Wayne was so racist he married a woman of Latino origin.
That is the problem with drinking heavy. Some of the things you say.
Being in Texas, I would guess the progressives (if forced to pick an alternative name) would suggest calling it the Antonio López de Santa Anna Freeway...
;^)
And MM, you get an honorary ping for being laudably feisty re this topic.
You are not allowed to have personal opinions in the Bravo New World.
Let’s face it. The left doesn’t like whites. That’s what all these things are about. Attacks on Whites.
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