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| Highway renaming effort begins. |
| 2015-08-20 |
"Each member will vote Yay or Nay to rid this city of a street name that still invokes memories of racism and slavery in the Old South" says Mayor Thomas Masters. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in City Hall Chambers at 600 W. Blue Heron Boulevard in Riviera Beach. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 How is this different from changing the name of St. Petersburg to Leningrad? |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2015-08-20 22:30 |
| #12 Ooooh ooooh! Can the lines be red? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-08-20 18:16 |
| #11 It always causes a lot of confusion and inconvenience when the name of any highway, road, street or any other type of public thoroughfare is changed for whatever reason. Confusion and inconvenience are liable to cause lost revenue. Just plain stupid. According to Wikipedia the origins of the name Dixie remain obscure. Three possible origins are given and only one of them has any connection to slavery. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-08-20 18:11 |
| #10 Barack Obama Highway going stright to? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-08-20 13:15 |
| #9 King deserves his highway and recognition. What has Obama done for race relations? Drove it back a hundred years! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-08-20 13:06 |
| #8 Interstate 65 is named "Martin Luther King Highway" it's still I-65, and all-ways will be. No matter how many blacks force their name on it, |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-08-20 12:26 |
| #7 Yes. The Left: Slavery is evil, except when we do it. in line with - The Left: Imposing your moral standards on others is evil, except when we do it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-20 10:16 |
| #6 Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it. That ought to be fun... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-08-20 10:05 |
| #5 I wonder how long it will be before they try to rename US Route 1 in Virginia. Right now it is Jefferson Davis Highway. Maybe the SJWS should just expel all the old Confederate states. By the way, I am a Yankee, born and bred, but I am getting sick and tired of all this PC crap of trying to purge any memory of slavery. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-08-20 09:59 |
| #4 Next week is the vote on renaming the town square the "Hershey Recreation Area" |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-08-20 09:50 |
| #3 ...from Old Dixie Highway to Barack Obama Highway. Seems appropriate. Narrow, shabby, unkempt, bumpy road that might embarrass any but the poorer counties in possession of such a venue. I'm sure it was cutting edge of transportation 80 years ago, but using the term 'Highway' is way beyond its ranking today. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-20 09:34 |
| #2 I doubt that the new street signs would last very long. |
| Posted by: OCCD 2015-08-20 08:57 |
| #1 It will always be the Old Dixie Highway whatever they name it to satisfy today's PC requirements. Leave it as is--changing it will not stand for anything. More lefty feel-good B.S. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-08-20 06:33 |