WASHINGTON – Also John Wayne it could fall under the blows of the protests against racism in America. One of the airports of The Angels, in Santa Ana, may in fact lose the name of the icon of the cinema western. The resolution was brought forward by the county Democrats Orange: “Many now ask to give the airport a new name accusing Wayne of having a supremacist vision and positions clearly against the LGBT community and against Native Americans“, the promoters of the resolution affirm Santa Ana was dedicated to John Wayne in 1971, the same year the actor died.
In a controversial interview with Playboy, just from 1971, Wayne said of “believe in white suprematism” and of “don’t feel guilty“that five or ten generations before him existed slavery in America. Then answering those who asked him if the license to teach the activist should be removed Angela Davis because African American, Wayne replied, “I don’t think we should give irresponsible people authority“.
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