Group plans ‘black-led boycott’ for inaction on renaming Faneuil Hall

Boston Herald ^ | Brooks Sutherland

[ConservativeStatement]

A group pushing to change the name of iconic marketplace Faneuil Hall is now calling for a national “black-led boycott” of the tourist site after being “avoided and rebuffed” by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, according to its founder.

Kevin Peterson said the New Democracy Coalition has been reaching out to the mayor for more than a year and a half about a name change through letters, press conferences and office visits.

[ConservativeStatement]

"denial, disrespect, disdain and disassociation..."

Cutest thing I have read since Bambi.

[mindburglar]

Crime should go down.

[ConservativeStatement]

I have a new tagline.

[2ndDivisionVet]

YAWN. How 2010.

[Rurudyne]

So the offendarazzi will pout if nothing is done? Sound good to me. Let them pout.

... then take back the name of something already renamed....

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I followed the link to that very obnoxious site and read a little before the porn storm like ads hit. What are they upset about?

[BBell]

He added that the organization will be picketing outside the hall and are reaching out to national black organizations to let them know Faneuil Hall “is not a place for blacks to be.”

Withholding comment here.

[SharpRightTurn]

Are these shake down agents thinking along the lines of, say, “Rodney King Hall”, or do they have the name of some other sterling member of the community in mind?

[BBell]

Porn ads??? What have you been searching?

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[ConservativeStatement]

From the Boston Globe (competition newspaper): Local historians say Peter Faneuil, a wealthy colonial merchant who gifted the hall to the city in the 1740s, owned several slaves and participated in the slave trade.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/07/23/call-for-boycott-faneuil-hall-spotlights-namesake-ties-slavery/c5Ulko8mKhm0yLUo9mGUZK/story.html

[a fool in paradise]

>>said the Faneuil Hall name, dedicated to Peter Faneuil, a slave owner, “is an insult to blacks not only in Boston, but blacks throughout the country.”

Do they know how JFK and RFK treated MLK? Ask him when the Name Kennedy is coming down.

[ConservativeStatement]

Activists want to rename Faneuil Hall as Crispus Attucks Hall

https://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2018/06/activists_push_to_rename_faneu.html

[MuttTheHoople]

How about Nathan Bedford Beauregard Stonewall Hall?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Thanks for the readable link.

[jeffersondem]

“From the Boston Globe (competition newspaper): Local historians say Peter Faneuil, a wealthy colonial merchant who gifted the hall to the city in the 1740s, owned several slaves and participated in the slave trade.”

This seems likely since, at the time, Massachusetts was a slave state. In fact, of the original 13 states, 13 of them were slave states.

There is no logical reason to rename the building. If the building's history is tainted beyond redemption, the best thing to do is to tear it down. And rename the slave state of Massachusetts something else.

I, too, condemn slavery in the strongest possible terms.

[dayglored]

> How about Nathan Bedford Beauregard Stonewall Hall?

Somehow I kinda doubt that'll go over well with the offenderatti.

[hanamizu]

Activists want to rename Faneuil Hall as Crispus Attucks Hall

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Does anyone remember the other Bostonians killed that day? Why only Crispus? What makes him so special?

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What Americans have a national holiday named after them?

[Cowboy Bob]

These children need to be spanked and sent to bed with no dinner. I’m getting tired of this nonsense.

[Albion Wilde]

“If the buildin’ don’ fit, you must trash it.”