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Is ‘Dixie Highway’ racist? The debate is growing
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | Dec. 27, 2019 | Susannah Bryan

Posted on 12/28/2019 7:57:13 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

A movement to rename Dixie Highway — for some a painful reminder of a tragic, racist past — might be gaining steam in Broward County.

The argument is being made by one of Broward County’s youngest elected officials after she heard of a similar effort in Miami-Dade.

The name Dixie harkens back to an era that glorified slavery and white supremacy, says 22-year-old Hallandale Beach Vice Mayor Sabrina Javellana. Her fellow city commissioners agree, approving a resolution in early December urging Broward commissioners to take up the cause.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


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KEYWORDS: dixie; fl; racism
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To: ConservativeStatement

Who would want to be the mayor of vice?


21 posted on 12/28/2019 8:45:00 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I remember Pixie and Dixie from 1960.

https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/Pixie_and_Dixie_and_Mr._Jinks

So many little kids indoctrinated with this “reicis” message.


22 posted on 12/28/2019 8:49:41 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ConservativeStatement

No, it is not racist. But so what if it is? Everything that existed at the time of slavery could be considered racist. SLAVES could be considered racist.

As for the “painful reminder” baloney — I don’t believe it for a New York minute. It is MADE UP. It is “pooah widdle us, feel sahwee foah us.” No. The answer is no.


23 posted on 12/28/2019 8:58:34 PM PST by Nellie Wilkerson
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To: ConservativeStatement

Why do we let them get away with this crap?


24 posted on 12/28/2019 8:59:41 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: ConservativeStatement

“She should go into a VA and thank...”

Speaking solely for myself, I’d just as soon not see her down at the VA.


25 posted on 12/28/2019 9:04:14 PM PST by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

“Until EVERY homeless veteran is comfortably off the streets”

That’s not going to happen, because there are a lot of veterans who would rather sleep rough than be treated like a child by people like AOC and these cunning runts.

If a guy walks into a shelter with half a pack of cigarettes, two joints, and a Coors tall boy, the first thing they do is take them away. What the hell? Is this a grown man or not? When he got back to base after a fire fight, did they confiscate his smokes and his beer?

It appears that the people running these things would rather see the vets out in the freezing cold than to see them smoke a joint and drink a beer before they turn in.


26 posted on 12/28/2019 9:19:44 PM PST by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oh for PFFT sake. These people need to find a life. They probably want to call it Alcee Hastings Highway.


27 posted on 12/28/2019 10:01:04 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Change them all to “Yankee Highways”.......Problem solved...


28 posted on 12/28/2019 10:07:28 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Kinda like “assistant to the regional manage.”


29 posted on 12/28/2019 10:09:22 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: ohiobushman

There’s a brand of beer in New Orleans
called Dixie. No one’s called it racist yet.


30 posted on 12/28/2019 10:25:30 PM PST by DeplorableGirl
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To: ConservativeStatement
These singing groups are black
31 posted on 12/28/2019 10:36:39 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: ConservativeStatement

Florida has a Dixie County, too. What about that?


32 posted on 12/28/2019 10:58:45 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Are The Dixie Chicks Racist?


33 posted on 12/28/2019 11:13:58 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: ConservativeStatement
My family fled Ireland because there was a famine and the brits were exporting all the remaining food from it and letting the Irish starve starting in 1847. If there was a "Potato famine turnpike" through my city the most I'd do would be to roll my eyes but probably I'd just say "WTF?" the first time I saw it and then never give it another thought.

But well adjusted people don't let words and objects trigger them. Others, they love having some excuse to act outraged and offended and angry.

34 posted on 12/28/2019 11:22:41 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: dsc

The good news is that we’ll be able to coax her off of that soapbox for a long time, then.

PS: Homeless ‘shelters’ aren’t the only answer and are not necessarily even close to the best answer, either


35 posted on 12/29/2019 1:21:32 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Look away, look away, look away,
Dixie Land....

“way down yonder in the land of cotton
Old times there ain’t near as rotten as they are
On this damned old L.A. street-lyrics of Dixie,
a song by Dwight Yoakam.

They’ll be wanting to do away with anything “jazz”
next, as it’s refered to as “Dixie”. It sounds like
the progressives are trying to wipe the slate clean,
and begin construction of their version of utopia.
ALL American history wiped out. All the things that
made us, Americans.


36 posted on 12/29/2019 2:16:18 AM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I wonder if she is a Democrat? Does she know the background of her political party? Look up senator Byrd - and please let us know when she goes off on the Dems.


37 posted on 12/29/2019 3:34:48 AM PST by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Have mercy!......Just stop this!!!!

DIXIE DIXIE DIXIE!!!!.....get over it.....it’s a place in time....it survives in many forms!
One of my friends is named Dixie

ie.....Dixie Carter

..ie...Dixie Chicks...( although that didn’t turn out well!)

YOU CAN’T ERASE HISTORY


38 posted on 12/29/2019 3:41:47 AM PST by Guenevere (Psalm 37)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Of course it is! It it describes an area that isn’t overrun by non-racist elite white progressives yet. If they do they should rename every state in the south because of slavery and...stuff.


39 posted on 12/29/2019 4:07:41 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Comically, the idea for a north-south "Dixie Highway" was conceived and planned by the same private businessmen who planned the "Lincoln Highway."

The Lincoln Highway went from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco.

Lincoln Park is on the northwest corner of San Fran and (on clear days) has views of the Golden Gate Bridge, SF Bay, and the Pacific Ocean.

The Golden Gate Bridge was not built until almost 30 years after the park opened.


40 posted on 12/29/2019 4:28:25 AM PST by zeestephen
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