[wideawake]

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.

[Roos_Girl]

Well, sure, they can, but it’s a road that is like, and in some places actually is, US1 or A1A, that runs pretty much up and down the east coast of Florida. It has different names in various locations. Just nonsense to me. Riviera Beach is not the nicest of areas. I was bused 30 minutes to West Riviera Beach elementary school when I was a kid. That was interesting times.

[ladyjane]

I don't see why local residents can't vote on the street names in their own town,

Most residents care about the impact of their votes on property values. These people apparently are quite dense or they don't care.

BTW Old Dixie Highway now intersects Martin Luther King Blvd. A double whammy to insure property values will never recover for decades, if ever.

[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.