John Wayne: Calls to remove actor's name from Californian airport over 'racist and bigoted' Playboy interview comments
standard.co.ukLGBTQ communities. The Los Angeles Times reported that officials have passed an emergency resolution condemning Wayne’s "racist and bigoted" statements made during a 1971 interview with Playboy magazine.It calls on the Orange County Board of Supervisors to drop his name, statue and other likenesses from the John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, which given that name in 1979, the year the actor died.In a push by Democratic Party politicians, the resolution asked the board “to restore its original name: Orange County Airport”.“There have been past efforts to get this done and now we’re putting our name and our backing into this to make sure there is a name change,” said Ada Briceno, chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Orange County.According to.
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