Don't forget the Austin suburbs.
Posted on 05/01/2018 7:20:08 AM PDT by Rebeleye
Robert E. Lee Road and Jeff Davis Avenue are no more after the Austin City Council on Thursday voted to remove the names of the Confederate leaders from the two Austin streets that bear their names.
...most of the residents who responded to surveys from the city objected to the proposed name changes....
Instead the road that ambles along Barton Creek into the Zilker neighborhood will be named for Azie Taylor Morton, the country’s first and only black U.S. treasurer, who grew up and went to college in Austin. Its official designation will be Azie Morton Road.
In the Brentwood neighborhood in North Austin, the street that was presumably named for the president of the Confederacy will now be named for William Holland, an African-American Travis County commissioner who served in the state Legislature and founded the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute for Colored Youth in Austin in 1887, a precursor to the Texas School for the Blind.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Even in Austin they couldn’t get people to go along, they just had to say “this is what’s best for you people” and shove it down their throats regardless.
You also have to wonder what the point of asking was if they were just going to ignore it. Seriously, why ask? They could have just rammed it through and gave some lame anecdotes about how “every constituent I talked with said to do it.” I can only surmise they thought it’d go the other way, and they could claim “we’re just following the will of the respondents,” and when it didn’t, just said “F it, we’ll do it anyway.”
Don't forget the Austin suburbs.
Nah it isn’t. If it was Detroit it wouldn’t have any traffic...
Just driving around Austin. Not through it, steals an hour or more of folks lives.
It’s a typical liberal mentality... steal something from anyone within arms reach.
To be renamed, no doubt, Marx Boulevard and Engels Street.
I’d wonder if they’d block a gated community from taking either of those for street names.
Just as how in the wee hours of last Thursday morning they came and took away the Stephen Foster Memorial Statue here in his hometown of Pittsburgh. Because the statue and his music were RAAAAAACIST.
The vast majority of Pittsburghers did not want this. But a few screaming activists on the nearby college campuses did. So the Mayor and the City Arts Commission duly ignored us.
I hadn't heard about this, and it's sickening. The irony is that Foster had a deep love and respect for the folk songs of American blacks, as he did for all folk music.
The vast majority of Pittsburghers did not want this. But a few screaming activists on the nearby college campuses did. So the Mayor and the City Arts Commission duly ignored us.
A small, shrill caste of professional victims manage to find offense at everything is being allowed to tyrannize over the rest of America, and nothing is being done to stop them. I wish that Trump had declared the Foster statue (along with Confederate statues) National Monuments under the authority of the National Park Service, so that mayors and governors beholden to noisy antifans and minority agitators wouldn't be able to touch them.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.