Leaders want John Wayne name, statue gone from Orange County airport
nbcnews.comresolution last week condemning "white supremacist, anti-LGBT and anti-Indigenous views" Wayne made in a 1971 interview.The resolution asks the county's Board of Supervisors to restore the international airport's original name: Orange County Airport."Orange County is now a diverse region far different from the time when John Wayne was chosen as namesake for the airport," the resolution states.
It cites a recent annual survey that says 79 percent of respondents see the county's increasing ethnic diversity as "a source of great strength.""An international airport that welcomes millions of people each year should not be named for someone whose beliefs oppose our nation's values of equal opportunity and justice for all," said Ada Briceño, chair.
