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He Said to Kill People in Interracial Relationships, Yet an Airport Is Named for Him.
The New American ^ | 2/23/19 | Selwyn Duke

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: cassiusclay; johnwayne; orangecounty
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To: Nifster
Did you read any of it??? It was said by Cassius Clay aka Muhammed Ali

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?

41 posted on 02/23/2019 3:56:11 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Oldexpat

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.


42 posted on 02/23/2019 3:58:31 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Drew68

Bump


43 posted on 02/23/2019 4:00:05 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: gundog

LOL, nice.


44 posted on 02/23/2019 4:02:17 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: tomkat
It'll be entertaining to read the comments and surmise how many posters failed to read the entirety of the short excerpt :-)snicker

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?

45 posted on 02/23/2019 4:06:39 PM PST by Eroteme
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To: OddLane
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

-George Orwell, "1984
46 posted on 02/23/2019 4:06:55 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: tomkat

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.


47 posted on 02/23/2019 4:07:43 PM PST by M1911A1 (Santa is real. CNN is fake.)
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To: OddLane
Get a life ....people have been criticizing others races, religions, levels of education, for looks, accents, you name it for centuries...it wasn't John Wayne who said that and who gives a hoot or cares who said it.

Selwyn Duke needs to find a job.............

48 posted on 02/23/2019 4:10:16 PM PST by yoe (This "war" between USA parties is about the Constitution. Capitolism and Marxism.)
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To: OddLane

I love John Wayne- too bad we don’t have too many like him anymore....


49 posted on 02/23/2019 4:11:37 PM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Drew68

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!


50 posted on 02/23/2019 4:16:52 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Mastador1

“”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!


51 posted on 02/23/2019 4:20:01 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: OddLane; 5th MEB; ab01; AgThorn; al baby; AlexisHeavyMetal1981; Avalon Memories; BAW; bboop; ...
SoCal Ping!



Attention Southern Californians



Please ping me with any Southern California related articles. Thank you!

If you want on or off this ping list, please FReepmail me.

52 posted on 02/23/2019 4:43:21 PM PST by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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To: OddLane

John Wayne was so racist he married a woman of Latino origin.


53 posted on 02/23/2019 4:43:38 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: OddLane

That is the problem with drinking heavy. Some of the things you say.


54 posted on 02/23/2019 4:46:42 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: tomkat
It'll be entertaining to read the comments and surmise how many posters failed to read the entirety of the short excerpt :-)snicker

I know it's FR tradition to not click on the link and read the article, but there has been an abundance of people recently who don't even read the excerpt - all they get is the title and maybe a few capitalized words from the excerpt. It's ridiculous.
55 posted on 02/23/2019 4:49:12 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: sparklite2
There’s LBJ Freeway in Dallas.

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...

;^)

56 posted on 02/23/2019 4:51:48 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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To: M1911A1; Eroteme; golux; miss marmelstein
Excellent posts from all three of you, with much truth therein .. congrats for not being among the bait swallowers   ;-)

And MM, you get an honorary ping for being laudably feisty re this topic.

57 posted on 02/23/2019 5:01:41 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Svartalfiar
oops, see #57 .. meant to include you therein   :-\
58 posted on 02/23/2019 5:03:51 PM PST by tomkat
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To: OddLane

You are not allowed to have personal opinions in the Bravo New World.


59 posted on 02/23/2019 5:06:48 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Drew68

Let’s face it. The left doesn’t like whites. That’s what all these things are about. Attacks on Whites.


60 posted on 02/23/2019 5:22:01 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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