"Leopold!"
Name it “the Sprout”.........
Leopoldette.
It would disrespect him even as it retained history.
“Currently, 43% of the streets in Brussels bear the name of a person. Of these, only 6.1% of the streets are named after a woman.”
That is because as a general rule they don’t create much and do big things in a nation. They are consumers and managers of that which was made by men. It has always been thus.
A big, dark, foreboding tunnel. Name it after a Kardashian.
Marie Curie, by far.
But they missed a chance to call it the Manneken Piss tube.
That’s a much better reason to change the name than the fact he was a man. The Congo Free State was his personal fiefdom that he ran with brutal mercenaries. He ruthlessly exploited slave labor to make himself filthy rich from ivory and rubber. World opinion finally made him turn administration over to the Belgian state. A truly evil man.
Leopold II was an evil SOB. He created the Heart of Darkness.
Absolutely. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a great exposition about the evil of King Leopold.
The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle
http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/37712
Arguably Leopold and his Belgian crooks performed the first big democide, murder by government, of the 20th Century.
"Leopold!"
Which is why it was folly to get into WWI, especially since a large part of the propaganda was about the alleged German atrocities in Belgium. Germans were par for the course in Europe at the time. Whether they won or lost, had no bearing on the US. They had no colonies in the Western Hemisphere, unlike Britain and France.
Belgium?...
‘Hooker hole’?
Yup. One pure SOB. Talk about genocide? He just about invented it, or at least refined it.
Leopold is largely responsible for the wreckage that is Sub-Sahara Africa today.