Riviera Beach To Vote On Proposed Street Name Change:'Old Dixie Highway' to 'Barack Obama Highway'

WPTV ^ | 08/19/2015 | WPTV webteam

[moehoward]

Kinda like naming a street after MLK assures a garden spot.

[ml/nj]

I suppose if one has to name something for Obama, this isn't such a bad choice.

This is an area just north of Palm Beach, Florida. It's the kind of area you avoid if you can.

Note in the picture the large abandoned paved area. Of course, Riviera Beach isn't the only place in the country with one of these. But each is an indicator that there was probably a business there years ago, and now it's gone.

ML/NJ

[Vermont Lt]

Will it run parallel to MLK Blvd. it’s usually the worst street in town.

[Ann Archy]

A Street to AVOID at all costs....like MLK Jr. Blvd!!!

You PRAY that you don't break down on the roads that are MLK Jr. Blvds. And thanks to those who named these streets to avoid.

[wardaddy]

Black rule

Aren’t they a grateful bunch.....

I put on a digital sign at one of my washes:

PRAY FOR DIXIE WHO WILL DEFEND HER?

In a county just east of Nashville

One really inarticulate black man called to complain the word Dixie was racist and he was offended

I asked him two questions

Who told you that you were entitled to be unoffended?

Do you know anything about the man who wrote the song Dixie?

He had nothing

[onedoug]

Osama bin Laden Highway. One enemy islamist is as functional as another for such a purpose.

[Joe Boucher]

This strech of Old Dixie Hwy. Isfilled with dirty crappy bars where many go to get killed.

[ek_hornbeck]

The town is something like 70% black. I don't see why local residents can't vote on the street names in their own town, or why they should feel obligated to keep an old name they don't like.

This should also mean that no white-majority southern town should be forced to change the streets named in honor of Lee, Jackson, Beauregard, and Forrest to "Martin Luther King Avenue" or "Rosa Parks Drive." Somehow, talk of majority rights and localism only seems to cut one way.

[wideawake]

This should also mean that no white-majority southern town

Very few southern towns of any size with an ethnic white majority have an ethnic white majority that unanimously cherishes the memory of Genls. Lee, Jackson, Beauregard, and Forrest.

If it were to come up to a vote in many such towns, one ethnic group would be 100% against keeping such names, while the other would be divided.