Also, the majority of San Antonians DO NOT WANT the unnecessary costs of paying $100,000 to rename Durango Blvd.
But our city council is made up of a Mexican-American majority, and they saw the opportunity to stick it to the minorities here, and they went for it.
But do they have a Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard?
See, the latino’s have had an agenda to rename something to Cesar Chavez Blvd. for a long time. First they wanted to rename Commerce St. (a MAJOR downtown street). That got shot down and so they felt the need to regroup and pursue the attack.
Rather than naming a newly contsructed road after Chavez, they picked on Durango Blvd. which has had the name of Durango Blvd. since the 1800’s.
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Taylor said she was aggrieved by some of the day’s discussion because it was marked by divisiveness.
“Mr. Chávez’s legacy and his impact is not part of the debate today,” she said.
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She’s right. This was not about honoring Chavez at all. It was sticking it to the whites.
Is cesar chavez the best these folks have? Why not hugo chavez, or Santa Ana, or Henry Cisneros (LOL)?
Haven’t they ever noticed that streets named MLK or cesar chavez are destined for high-crime status? Politically correct is seldom politically smart.
They should have named a sewage plant after chavez, like San Fran did with President Bush.
What is happening to San Antonio? First the filming of kids lunch trays by the food police and now this. Totally ridiculous. Last time we went to Fiesta Texas it was totally trash. Once beautiful city going down the tubes IMO.
By chance, I am friends with a man who was one of Chavez’s personal attorney’s for some 20 years, up to his death.
Whenever he hears of the way Chavez’s name is being used in such pandering moves he is livid.
Cesar Chavez was an American who did not hyphenate his name or use the ‘ in the spelling of his name and who opposed illegal immigration.
I also have to chuckle seeing how they now wish to impose such “honors” on the man while acting to undermine all the years of his work by advocating illegal immigrants work farms for less than what he fought for farm workers to receive.
I sent this to my friend and he replied, “Self-defined “Latinos” who have done nothing of value with their lives are doing nothing more now than using Cesar Chavez’ life to poke “Non-Latinos” in the eye. He, who never called himself a “Latino” or “Hispanic” or “Chicano,” unified; they divide.”
of note and pertaining to similar action taken by liberal progressives in Portland, Oregon: "The City Commissioners of Portland, the Principality of Progressive Political Correctness, at the urging of a handful of self-described "Latinos" who collectively and individually have done little or nothing to actually aid the cause of Cesar Chavez in the fields of California (as there has been little or no UFW organizing effort in Oregon), carried out this insult to the memory of Cesar Chavez over the all but universal opposition of the citizens who actually live on 39th Street and despite the fact that Cesar's own son, Paul, who has devoted his life to the UFW, stated in an interview by the Oregoian that his father would consider it a "waste of time" to work to name a street for Cesar Chavez when there is so much to do."