Attendance by blacks is about 20-40% daily with black employment there over 50%.
Life is horrible.
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. The vote was 10-0 with City Council Member Ellen Troxclair absent from the meeting.
While most of the residents who responded to surveys from the city objected to the proposed name changes, the lion’s share of speakers at City Hall on Thursday were in favor of the revisions.
There’s Texas, and then there’s Austin.
At least someone will make a buck changing the signs.
Minority-fronted contractor no doubt.
Black Treasurer Road
Ha ha ha lol lmao ha ha hee ha Ha ha ha ha!
Austin’s embarrassment of the Texas keeps rolling on.
They reallly wanted to name them Poncho Villa Street and General Santa Anna Street.
Doesn’t seem quite right that EVERY street named after a Confederate hero now must to be changed to that of a Negro, or some Civil Rights pablum like Emancipation Boulevard. If they (the people) want to change the names, which they don’t, name them after someone or something of note, but qualifications should be broader than “the first black ....”.
Liberal politicians never listen to what the little people want.
Even the ones who wear R jerseys.
I still remember when Austin changed 19th Street to MLK and 1st Street to Cesar Chavez. So Austin now has a 2nd Street but no 1st Street and 18th and 20th Streets but no 19th.
If they are determined to change one of the numbered streets, I could never figure out why they didn’t change 38 & 1/2 Street.
Attendance by blacks is about 20-40% daily with black employment there over 50%.
Life is horrible.
Let’s just pretend the Civil War never happened.
Why don’t they like those famous civil war democrats?
The south was ALL democrats. A republican didn’t have a chance of being elected in the old south, and that didn’t change much until the 1970’s!
Even if the council had listened to the residents, the pressure to denigrate history wouldn’t have let up. They would have gone to federal courts to ‘make’ the city change the names.
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.”
To be renamed, no doubt, Marx Boulevard and Engels Street.