They were so bad, non-thinking progressives want his name removed from the airport in Orange County. However, other progressives are tolerant of a black racist who has an airport named for him.

Wayne stated, “I don’t want somebody like Angela Davis inculcating an enemy doctrine in my kids’ minds.” The interviewer then declared that Davis claimed the reason that people wanted to revoke her teaching credentials was because she is black. I don’t suppose it could be her involvement with the Black Power Movement, her Communist Party membership, support for Castro, her support for the “Palestinians” and antagonism toward Israel, and her part in an aborted prison escape where four men were killed.

She was on the FBI Most Wanted List and spent 18 months in prison awaiting trial for her part in the attempted prison escape. She was tried and acquitted of all charges.

So was O. J. Simpson.

She was a professor (now retired) at University of California Santa Cruz filling the minds of youth with all kinds of leftwing poppycock. Wayne was responding to her teaching at a tax supported institution.

Wayne declared, “With a lot of blacks, there’s quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But 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.”

Keeping in mind that the interview took place in 1971, Wayne said he “believe[s] in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.”

Davis can work wherever she wants if she can con someone in authority to hire her. I would never hire her because of her vile unrepentant past and her reprehensible present. All institutions that are taxpayer-funded should use discretion in how they spend tax dollars. Wayne was right: Blacks or Whites should not be rewarded with a lucrative position especially if the person’s beliefs are dangerous to society.

Wayne was saying that if people want to be leaders, they must display leadership qualities.

Wayne also said that black people should take “tests” to prove that they are “sufficiently equipped” to attend college. I find no fault with that statement. Everyone should have to pass an entrance exam. But black racists and guilt-ridden Whites will find fault.

The Los Angeles Times reported on Wayne’s disparaging remarks in the Playboy interview about homosexuals, using a homophobic slur. Referring to Hollywood films, he suggested that Americans are “completely fed up with these perverted films.” When asked to elaborate on “perverted” films, he mentioned Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy. He added, “Wouldn’t you say the wonderful love of those two men in ‘Midnight Cowboy,’ a story about two fags, qualifies?” Well, since the homosexual crowd often use “queer,” “fag,” etc., then I find no fault in him.

Moreover, like all societies in history, all religions, and all sane people have believed sexual love is between people of the opposite sex. Anything else is perversion—not hatred, just truth that can’t be changed by any court, legislature, or dictator.

The author of the Times’ piece opined of Wayne’s indiscretions, “It certainly undermines any justification for his name and image to adorn a civic facility.” Ipso facto, the airport should not bear his name.

That is his opinion, but not a certified fact.

So, the Orange County Board of Supervisors is going to dump Wayne for being insensitive, homophonic, and a bigot.

But progressives in middle America are not as sensitive to rooting out the bad guys if they are Muslim. A Black Muslim bigot in Louisville has an airport with his name.

Muhammad Ali was a notorious racist but I’m not supposed to say that. If Wayne’s name should be removed from the California airport then Ali’s name should be removed from the Kentucky airport. Everyone will agree with that except the hypocrites.

Muhammad’s offenses were far more egregious than Wayne’s and no white man would have streets and airports named after him if he espoused views about Blacks as Ali did about Whites.

Muhammad was a rabid segregationist although I don’t think Louisville’s airport has segregated restrooms and water fountains. Ali opined in a 1975 Playboy interview that couples who were in black/white relationships deserved to be killed! He said, “A black man should be killed if he’s messing with a white woman.” And in relation to interracial marriage: “No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.”

It was the most venomous interview I have ever read and it is shocking that anyone would consider naming anything except the county dump after him.

I never heard any other rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth segregationist advocate murder.
The International Business Times quoted him saying, “We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don’t want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don’t want to live with the white man; that’s all.”

On a British television show, I heard Ali say that blue birds fly together; red birds fly together, buzzards fly together. And Blacks are more comfortable with other Blacks. The British interviewer was almost speechless. Indeed, Ali’s beliefs included the notion that the white man was “the devil.”

At Howard University he gave his popular “Black Is Best” speech to 4,000 cheering students and community leaders, on behalf of the Black Power Committee, a student protest group. “We look at Miss World, we see white. We look at Miss Universe, we see white. Even Tarzan, the king of the jungle in black Africa, he’s white!” He then closed with a verse written by  Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam–“A White Man’s Heaven is a Black Man’s Hell.”

Muhammad said, “…in the Islamic world, the man’s the boss and the woman stays in the background. She don’t want to call the shots….They obey us.” Where were the feminists at that time? Why did no one demand he be drawn and quartered?

He also told Playboy, “You hear about Catholic sisters—but they do a lot of screwing behind doors.” That didn’t play well at the Vatican but I didn’t hear anyone complain about religious discrimination. But when I tell the truth about the Koran then I’m a bigot for quoting the facts about jihad, sharia, and sexual mutilation of little girls.

Almost everyone praised Ali’s “courage” for refusing to fight for his country (or serve as a non-combatant) during the Vietnam War, suggesting that he was a very principled man; however, few are willing to discuss his call for murder and his lack of self-discipline when it came to sexual affairs.

The London Daily Mail bravely opined, “when it came to his private life his morals were those of an alley cat. The way he treated his first three wives and neglected some of his nine (known) children was frankly disgraceful.”

I am willing to concede that Wayne was at least insensitive according to present standards but they should leave both airports as they are. At least, the hypocrites should demand equal treatment even though Ali was far more offensive than Wayne. Let’s all learn from any real mistakes and move on. Stop whining and looking for ways to be offended. After all, Wayne “killed” thousands of Indians, Japanese soldiers, and others while Ali actually advocated killing real people.

Moreover, let’s stop requiring people from the past to meet the present, modern, exalted progressive values. You know, values like killing little babies even after they are born; pretending same-sex couples are a family; and pretending a man in a dress is a woman even with his massive shoulders, prominent Adam’s apple, large knuckles, and husky baritone voice.

Leave both airports alone.

Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives, who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for eight years. Boys’ book, Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! is available here. Follow Dr. Boys on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D. and TheGodHaters, Twitter, and visit his blog.

Stuart Hamblen was a skirt chasing, boozing, fighting, cowboy radio star in Los Angeles. He heard of the Billy Graham stir around L.A. and wanted him on his show. He attended the tent meeting one night and he thought Graham called him a fake during his message! Hamblen stomped out and two nights later he appeared at Graham’s hotel door at 4:00 a.m. drunk as a skunk. He wanted Graham to pray for him. About 5:00 p.m. he trusted Christ. His life was changed immediately. He stopped his wild, hedonist living and soon the Hollywood crowd began to shun him. He was fired from his popular radio show because he refused to accept a beer commercial. Wow, a man of principle!

John, one of his old Hollywood drinking buddies, asked him one day if “getting religion” was worth all the repercussions and Stuart told him it was. John said, “But Stuart you sure liked your booze, don’t you miss it?” He told him that he did not miss it and John said, “I don’t understand how you could give it up so easily.” Stuart replied, “It’s no secret what God can do.” His friend replied, “That’s a catchy phrase. You should write a song about it.” He did. Stu went home sat down at the piano and finished the song in 17 minutes. His new gospel song, “It is no secret what God can do” was the first song to cross over from Gospel to country to pop ballad reaching number one on all three charts!

His drinking buddy was John Wayne with whom he appeared in some of his ten movies where he had minor roles.

Hamblen wrote other Christian songs and “This Old House” written for his friend Rosemary Clooney was a big hit. It went to number two on the country field chart and remained there for 30 weeks! It was also named the “Song of the Year.” Most people totally missed the message.

When publisher William Randolph Hearst heard about some of the Hollywood crowd trusting Christ and getting involved, he sent a telegram to every editor in his newspaper syndicate: “Puff Graham.” Thus, began a wild ride for a lifetime of a preacher and the media, a media that never writes a critical word about him.

Hearst’s sons told Graham that their father attended the tent revival in disguise, in a wheelchair accompanied by his mistress, actress Marion Davies. Because of Hearst’s promotion of the meeting, it was extended five weeks. Hearst had promoted Evangelist Billy Sunday and Mary Baker Patterson Eddy in earlier years!

Other stars impacted by Graham’s meeting included the beautiful, brassy, buxom Jane Russell, Dennis Morgan, Virginia Mayo, Porter Hall, Connie Haines, Michael O’Shea, Roy Rogers, and Dale Evans.

Another “star” walked the sawdust trail: Jim Vaus, Jr., infamous wiretapper for the number one mobster in L.A., Mickey Cohen! Cohen was uneducated but coy, violent, and street smart. Wow, things were getting interesting in the old tent. Jim was an electronic genius and worked surreptitiously (and illegally) for the L.A. Police procuring evidence to convict prostitutes and crooks; later spying on Mickey Cohen. Jim discovered there was more money working for Cohen than the cops so he decided to go full time with crime.

Cohen collected celebrities like others collect baseball cards. Bob Mitchem, Sammy Davis, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and many other stars kissed his ring. Among his girlfriends were Candy Barr, Tempest Storm, and Beverly Hills. I think those were pseudonyms.

Cohen was a street thug with a second grade education from New York. He was in a reform school at age ten and ran from home at 15. At nine he was delivering illegal booze made by his brothers in a Brooklyn drug store. He worked the rackets in Cleveland and Chicago (with Al Capone, his idol) ending up working for Bugsy Siegel in Las Vegas. Siegel had been the crime boss in L.A. but moved to Vegas to build and operate the Flamingo Hotel, anticipating the gambling tsunami that was sweeping the nation. Siegel was skimming money from the New York bosses and mismanaging the Flamingo so the mob assassinated him at his girlfriend’s apartment.

After Siegel’s murder in 1947, Cohen consolidated his hold on crime in L.A. Somehow he discovered that Vaus had bugged his house for the L.A. police but he didn’t kill him; he hired him to spy on the cops!

But Jim had been converted, not simply signing a decision card; and Graham hired him and asked him to set up a meeting with Cohen. They met at Mickey’s Brentwood home for five hours. There is no doubt that each man “played” the other. Graham knew the results if he won the number one L.A. mobster to Christ and Cohen liked being identified with this newly famous preacher. Both men revealed their relationship to the public, Cohen even stated that he and Graham were going to vacation together at a Tucson dude ranch.

It didn’t hurt Cohen’s reputation to be identified with Graham since Cohen was about to go to prison for five years for income tax evasion. Only God knows how serious Cohen was considering becoming a Christian but he was reluctant to reject his Jewish roots to become a Southern Baptist! That’s a massive leap–which he should have made in my opinion.

Graham refused to let go of the relationship even stating, “Mickey Cohen is not as bad as America thinks,” and added “I am praying that after he pays his debt to society he will give his heart and life to Christ. He has the makings of one of the greatest gospel preachers of all time, and I mean that.” (Billy said about the same about Bill Clinton.) Informed people knew that Cohen was a loveable killer, thief, and general mobster who had been the object of eleven assassination attempts by other mobsters. Cohen told Mike Wallace on ABC that he had never killed anyone who didn’t deserve killing!

Some highly visible Christians pressed Cohen to trust Christ and change his hedonistic lifestyle and he told them “You never told me I had to give up my career. You never told me that I had to give up my friends. There are Christian movie stars, Christian athletes, Christian businessmen. So what’s the matter with being a Christian gangster? If I have to give up all that—if that’s Christianity—count me out.”

Mickey Cohen was always out. He went to jail again for income tax evasion, got out in 1972, and died of stomach cancer in 1976. He died leaving an estate of $3,000 and a tax bill of about $500, 000. I don’t know what happened to Candy Barr.

However, Stuart Hamblen totally changed after his conversion to Christ as did Jim Vaus. Jim went on to preach until his death in 1997. No one questions Jim’s conversion because he was a changed man. Just before his conversion he had stolen $15,000 of electronic equipment and he sold his home and car to make restitution. “Restitution” a strange word not heard much anymore. Nor practiced.

It is interesting that Graham never had another meeting like the L.A. tent meeting. No doubt many people trusted Christ over his lifetime but Graham changed after the L.A. meeting. He rejected Christian fundamentalism and became a middle of the roader, working with anyone who could produce a crowd. Graham sincerely chose to do wrong that good might result.

Casting his lot with liberal, unbelieving clergy was the biggest mistake Billy Graham ever made.

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