City of Little Rock removes "Confederate Boulevard" signs for Clinton Library Dedication

KATV website ^ | 29 Nov 2004

[Rebeleye]

The city of Little Rock has erased "Confederate Boulevard'' from interstate highway signs...The...signs had been the first landmarks many saw after landing at the city's airport. They were changed as Little Rock welcomed presidents, dignitaries and celebrities for the opening of Bill Clinton's presidential library.

[Rebeleye]

Little Rock (AP) - The city of Little Rock has erased "Confederate Boulevard'' from interstate highway signs. Replacing the signs are exit markers leading motorists to a road that honors a black community leader.

Confederate Boulevard still runs north from Interstate 440 near the Little Rock Airport, but signs for Exit One now tout "Springer Boulevard,'' which runs south from I-440 and honors Horace Springer, who lived in the area.

The Confederate Boulevard signs had been the first landmarks many saw after landing at the city's airport. They were changed as Little Rock welcomed presidents, dignitaries and celebrities for the opening of Bill Clinton's presidential library.

Mayor Jim Dailey says the Confederate Boulevard signs were "bothersome'' and that the city is continuing to try to, "dispel those things that divide us.''

[NJ Neocon]

I loathe the Neoconfedrate mythos and signs like this (as well as the flag flap) but I don't LIVE in these states that continue to glorify the Confederacy. It is the people's choice - the people of the state in question not mine.

This strikes me as the height of hypoxia and rejection of the public will. Appropriate for the Sink Emperor.

[NJ Neocon]

That is of course HYPOCRACY!

Duh on me...

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[cyborg]

very interesting... didn't Clinton sign some sort of confederate flag day when he was governor?

[PistolPaknMama]

bump!

[Cyclopean Squid]

"That is of course HYPOCRACY!"

Is that government by hypocrites? Certainly describes the Clintoon Administration.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Yes.

They also flew the Arkansas flag over City Hall-I forget what the exact occasion was, but it definitely had something to do with Bubba-for a day or so.

I think the proclamation was customary for ever Arkansas governor, though I'm surprised that the NAACP or National Urban League didn't make a bigger deal out of this while Clinton was in office.

[Arkinsaw]

Might as well face it, the cities are blue territory and they will erase history as they see fit and rename a lot of stuff the way they want it renamed. They live there, they vote there. The only way to change it is to move back into the cities and vote. Its not worth it. Little Rock is full of limousine liberals and this is their doing. Confederate Blvd. wasn't controversial and the black community lived with it in their midst for a long time and they were not the trigger for this one. It was Bill and cronies.

Energy is better expended saving history in a thousand small towns than expending it all fighting a bunch of losing battles in the hopeless blue cities.

[Arkinsaw]

very interesting... didn't Clinton sign some sort of confederate flag day when he was governor?

I own a genuine Clinton-Gore Confederate Flag campaign button. Handed out at the Democratic Convention to appeal to the two or three remaining 90 year old Dixiecrats I guess. I keep it for the sheer mind-numbing hypocrisy it is imbued with.

[The Great Yazoo]

Maybe all things Confederate should be renamed "Southern Separatist."

[dancusa]

Clinton Country is a Potemkin village.

[Route101]

Another P.C. numbnut...Major Jim Daily......

[stainlessbanner]

The Revisionists march on

[Constitution Day]

Hypocrisy, too.

[azhenfud]

"It is the people's choice - the people of the state in question not mine."

Respectfully, I sumbit choice was lost in 1864. Politicians make those choices for us, we're merely allowed to only confirm or reject those politico's. To wit, not one politician placed the removal of "Confederate Boulevard" before the people for their choice; they (the politico's) had already decided to do the deed.

[azhenfud]

Well, they could have called it "Southern Heritage Boulevard" and included all races which comprise Southern life. But look which way they've leaned (or as a true Southerner would say, "lent").

[4CJ]

From what I saw on this, the road was name for the Confederate Cemetary on it. What a bunch of hate-filled racists - typical dims.

[azhenfud]

"sumbit" should've been "submit", but the sumbits were the ones who changed the sign....;-)

[stainlessbanner]

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