John Wayne was flawed, but he stood for freedom, not racism

The Democratic Party of Orange County passed a resolution calling John Wayne a “racist symbol,” which is preposterous.
John Wayne is a symbol of many things, but racism isn’t one of them. That’s not to deny that the actor held views or made comments that today are rightly regarded as racist. It’s only to point out that these comments were re-discovered in an interview that the actor, who was born in 1907, gave to Playboy magazine in 1971.
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