John Wayne Was A Racist!

Blood in my eye. Trump and the Duke.

Fuck the Duke.

Fuck the Trump.

Fuck the world.

Let me be clear, had I not heard about this, I would have believed it was fake news. No, it's not fake news and the remarks, "I believe in white supremacy!"---- were said by John Wayne in an interview with Playboy Magazine.

Now that 1971 interview has gotten attention from Black Lives Matter. They are calling for the city of Santa Ana to rename their international airport. The city is hearing the call.

But they're not going to do such. They say that changing the name cost a whole lot of money.

John Wayne Airport is an international airport in Orange County, California. It named after the entertainer in 1979. Born Marion Robert Morrison, Wayne was an American actor and filmmaker.

He was among the top box office draws for three decades.

Wayne expressed his views after taking aim at African American political activist Angela Davis.

John Wayne is a bigot. They need to remove his name off the airport.

"With a lot of blacks, there’s quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent and rightfully so," he told the publication. "But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks."

He added: "I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgement to irresponsible people."

Wayne also claimed that "the academic community has developed certain tests that determine whether blacks are sufficiently equipped scholastically," and “some blacks have tried to force the issue and enter college when they haven’t passed the tests and don't have the requisite background."

There are calls to have the name of an international airport renamed.

Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote a column encouraging John Wayne Airport south of Los Angeles be renamed after the interview resurfaced. He told CNN host Michael Smerconish that Orange County has changed dramatically since the 1970s.

It was a “hive of rock-ribbed, conservative Republicanism that was exemplified in fact by the political views of John Wayne. That Orange County does not exist anymore,” Hiltzik said.

“The views that he expressed in 1971, I think, were extremist even for 1971. That was not a prehistoric period. … The civil rights movement was at high tide,” Hiltzik said.