Every town with black folks will want "Barack Hussein Obama Boulevard".
Posted on 03/25/2015 9:08:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
That way out-of-towners can stay safe by not going anywhere near it.
Or people who want to buy drugs now know where to go.
You almost had me there!
Every town with black folks will want "Barack Hussein Obama Boulevard".
Oh, and since the family copywrited the name (MLK), do they get paid a fee for each car that drives down the road?
People joke about MLK Blvd signifying where a bad neighborhood is. Or is it really a joke? I was on a business trip a few years ago, and we were driving a rental car. We got lost and found ourselves on MLK Blvd in Oakland. We could tell right away that we were in the ghetto.
And I know from personal experience from living in Chicago, that Martin Luther King Drive goes through the south side ghetto there. I’m sure others could tell similar stories.
Anybody know of a Martin Luther King street anywhere which isn’t in the ghetto???
I thought it rather strange for a city which has a population (I'd guess) of 0.5% black (and most of those African African) and had next to zero role in the civil rights movement. But I guess it is fashionable and shows your town is hip and worldly.
Anyway, the street named for Rosa Parks looks like any other part of the downtown area . . . nice neat little shops, restaurants and the like. Whereas one block away, the street named for MLK had seedy looking bars, pawn shops with bars in the windows, check cashing and payday loan vendors. Go figure.
In an email to members of the planning & zoning commission and city council earlier this month, Kivett wrote, “The Kivett name has been an established name in High Point since the year 1903. My great-grandfather, William Larkin Kivett, owned a large progressive 250-acre farm on the now Kivett Drive in the vicinity of where Hatteras Yachts was located. He developed a cold weather-resistant cabbage that was much sought after by farmers and merchants in other states.”
http://triad-city-beat.com/kivett-scion-and-business-owners-oppose-mlk-street-renaming/
“forward”.....
““A lot of courage was shown tonight,”
BS. It takes ZERO courage to do the politically convenient thing.
Every Martin Luther King Jr.Blvd is infested with crime.
Wonder why?
What was that? What just fell?
Oh, It was property values on Kivett Drive.
Exactly my thought. You beat me to it.
Well, there goes the Neighborhood.
Propose naming a Street “Ronald Reagan Boulevard” and see what happens.
Wherever MLK Blvd is, da ‘hood can’t be far away.
You can HEAR the Property Values Dropping!
Was proposed a few years ago here in Charleston, SC to name a street after MLK. One Dem pol declared that it would reduce crime as young blacks wouldn’t commit them there out of respect for the name of MLK. He was serious. The idea was voted down as it seems we already have a MLK Boulevard in the area. Was brought up that having two in the same city would cause confusion with emergency services not to mention people who didn’t live there.
So true. Always avoid Martin Luther King Drives after dark.
Libs won’t be happy even when every street, school, and city is names either MLK, Caesar Chávez, or Obama.
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