Posted on 05/28/2019 5:57:23 AM PDT by umgud
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The renaming of a street may be the road to change.
Cottonwood Road in southeast Bakersfield will now be named South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
"There's a lot of energy and a lot of excitement," community leader and ShePower organizer, Arleana Waller said.
Waller grew up on Cottonwood Road. She believes the new name will change the areas negative reputation.
(Excerpt) Read more at bakersfieldnow.com ...
Sorry, I had to post and run.
It has been my experience that every MLK street in every urban area is that sort of steet.
Just about everywhere.....................
community leader
two words that say a lot
The lyrics to the Easter song "Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail" will be changed to "Here Comes Peter Luther King."
Wow...if that’s all it took. Just rename chiraq to MLK. Problem solved.
We should all just be grateful that someone is taking care of all these MLK affairs!
Renaming the street to MLK Jr Ave only cements the area’s unsafe reputation. During hours of darkness I go miles out of my way rather than do a one block shortcut on MLK. Daytime is normally OK if you keep your windows up, doors locked and don’t make eye contact (and of course remain heavily armed).
Got lost once in Dallas leaving the Cotton Bowl and discovered the intersection between MLK Blvd and Malcolm X Blvd.
After what the FBI tapes revealed about him the street name could be “The Black Bill Clinton Blvd”.
These idiots believe that changing the name of a street will fix the neighborhood.
There you go, confusing them with facts.
Wow, every black person knows the ghetto starts at MLK BLVD. And Cottonwood is a tree, a poplar. It has nothing to do with Cotton. The tree seeds look like cotton in the late spring.
Its odd that the FBI releases recordings that MLK spent numerous nights with women, sometimes with two men and one women, sometimes with prostitutes. Yet we are still naming streets after him. It seems that African Studies has a blind spot.
“Waller grew up on Cottonwood Road. She believes the new name will change the areas negative reputation.”
Yeah, MLK Blvd sounds soooo much wealthier...
Yep another sterotype that seems to often to be true.
Wasn’t your story turned into a “Twilight Zone” script? ;^}
On a TV documentary years ago about drug addicts, a long-haul trucker was being interviewed. He said that every town has an MLK somewhere, and that’s where he headed to in strange towns if he needed a fix.
Change = from bad to worse.
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