[Slings and Arrows]

Didn't Chris Rock point out that when a city has a street named after Martin Luther King, it's always in the worst part of town?

[caseinpoint]

Yes. He warned in an appearance on The Tonight Show that anytime you found yourself on Martin Luther King street/drive/avenue/blvd., get off it immediately.

[bpjam]

Chris Rock doesn't have to point it out. I'm in real estate and I can confirm that in any city it runs through the worse real estate in the city. Politicians had to name streets after MLK after the whole holiday thing happened. They named streets which were already in some of the worst areas - ie, the black concentrated areas. Nobody anywhere else in any city wants to have a street named after MLK and there is only political benefit to naming a street which is used and surrounded by those who think its a good thing.

As far as this dead drug dealer from New Orleans. Gosh, this guy could be the posterboy for the reasons that N.O. was a cesspool. And the self-destructive behavior of naming your kids unpronouncable and unspellable names is like naming your son Sue. You might as well sign them up for welfare at age 4 since you are pretty much condemning their lives to it by making them sound like comedy routine characters.

[IncPen]

Didn't Chris Rock point out that when a city has a street named after Martin Luther King, it's always in the worst part of town?

He also pointed out that Black History Month is February, the shortest month.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Didn't Chris Rock point out that when a city has a street named after Martin Luther King, it's always in the worst part of town?

Malcolm X made the same observation about any high school named Abraham Lincoln, over forty years ago.

[ovrtaxt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q8LxO4wnCQ

[TravisBickle]

Didn't Chris Rock point out that when a city has a street named after Martin Luther King, it's always in the worst part of town?

Dr Martin Luther King Drive in St Louis, MO:

[Positive]

I saw a Chris Rock (black comedian) routine on tv late one night.

This was one of his "jokes" about black people: "A friend came from out of town to visit and he got lost so he called me for directions...I said where are you...he said 'I'm in a phone booth on Martin Luther King Blvd, what do i do?'....I said RUN!!!