«Breaking News» John Wayne's son defends his father over homophobic slur he used in 1971 interview which resurfaced

John Wayne’s son says a 1971 Playboy interview in which the famed actor says he ‘believes in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility’ was ‘used out of context.’

Ethan Wayne on Saturday defended his late father, the Oscar-winning star of True Grit and Sands of Iwo Jima, who died of stomach cancer in 1979.

John Wayne’s controversial comments about African Americans, homosexuals, and Native Americans in the interview have prompted calls to remove his name from an airport in Santa Ana, California.

‘It would be an injustice to judge someone based on an interview that's being used out of context,’ Ethan Wayne told CNN on Saturday.

The son of famed actor John Wayne (left), Ethan Wayne (right), appeared on CNN on Saturday to defend his late father in light of the uproar caused by remarks he made to Playboy magazine in 1971

‘They're trying to contradict how he lived his life, and how he lived his life was who he was.

‘So, any discussion of removing his name from the airport should include the full picture of the life of John Wayne and not be based on a single outlier interview from half a century ago.’

In the Playboy interview, John Wayne said he '[doesn’t] feel guilty about the fact that five or 10 generations ago [blacks] were slaves,' adding 'it's just a fact of life, like the kid who gets infantile paralysis and has to wear braces so he can't play football with the rest of us.'

He went onto say that he even believed black people had more advantages in America than whites.

But the insults didn't stop there.

When asked which films he considered ‘perverted’, Wayne listed 1969's Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy, before using anti-gay slurs in discussing the films further.

Ethan Wayne (seen right with his father in 1970) said his father's remarks were 'used out of context'

Even though the interview is nearly 50 years old, Twitter users resurrected some excerpts, which went viral last month.

When asked about the ‘perverted’ comment, Ethan Wayne, who is also an actor who has appeared in films such as The Blues Brothers, Longshot, and Scream, acknowledged that his father ‘used a terrible word, no doubt about it.’

‘But he used it not in the context of an individual's sexuality,’ he said.

‘He used it in the context of the changing landscape of the motion picture business, something that distressed him.

‘My father worked in Hollywood for 50 years, and Hollywood is probably, you know, one of the most progressive and diverse communities on Earth.

John Wayne’s controversial comments about African Americans, homosexuals, and Native Americans in the interview have prompted calls to remove his name from an airport in Santa Ana, California

‘He didn't care what race, gender, sexual orientation you were.

‘He cared how well you did your job. He took everyone at face value.’

The outrage on social media ignited renewed debate in Orange County, California over what should be done about John Wayne Airport.

'Orange County today is such an economically and ethnically diverse community that it's hard to justify asking any member of that community to board planes at an airport named after an outspoken racist and homophobe, with his strutting statue occupying a central niche in front of the concourse,' wrote columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece.

Even though the Playboy interview is nearly 50 years old, excerpts have gone viral in recent weeks on social media

Hiltzik wrote how in 1979, Orange County was a strongly conservative area which may have influenced the decision to name after Wayne - a hero of Westerns and outspoken conservative.

Once the name was chosen, the John Wayne Associates commissioned sculptor Robert Summers to create a nine foot bronze statue of 'the Duke' - which remains in the Thomas F. Riley Terminal on the Arrival Level to this day.

But the area's demographic has long since changed with a more liberal and progressive community making up the majority of the population.

'That should be evident from the results of November's election, in which voters turfed out the county's last remaining GOP members of Congress — some of whom had embraced Donald Trump in a fruitless effort to save their careers- and elected an all-Democratic congressional delegation,' Hiltzik wrote.

But Ethan Wayne insists that his father’s name should remain attached to the airport.

‘They put my father's name on that airport for the same reason that Congress voted to give him a Congressional Gold Medal, for the same reason that the President decided to give him a Medal of Freedom.

‘And it's recognition of a lifetime of significant contributions to this country, his community and to his industry.’ 

JOHN WAYNE'S CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS FROM INTERVIEW

In a 1971 interview with Playboy magazine, Wayne made several offensive comments about black people and Native Americans. Below are a few quotes from the interview: 

• 'We can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. 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 judgment to irresponsible people.' 

• 'I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that's what you're asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.'

• 'When you allow unlawful acts to go unpunished, you're moving toward a government of men rather than a government of law; you're moving toward anarchy. And that's exactly what we're doing. We allow dirty loudmouths to publicly call policemen pigs; we let a fella like William Kunstler make a speech to the Black Panthers saying that the ghetto is theirs, and that if police come into it, they have a right to shoot them. Why is that dirty, no-good son of a bitch allowed to practice law?' 

• 'I don't feel guilty about the fact that five or 10 generations ago these people were slaves. Now, I'm not condoning slavery. It's just a fact of life, like the kid who gets infantile paralysis and has to wear braces so he can't play football with the rest of us.' 

• 'The academic community has developed certain tests that determine whether the blacks are sufficiently equipped scholastically. But 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.' 

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