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Lake Shore Drive renamed to honor DuSable
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | June 25, 2021 | Fran Spielman

Posted on 06/26/2021 5:52:42 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Chicago’s most iconic and picturesque roadway has a new name — and it’s a mouthful of history: Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive.

The Black man of Haitian descent who was Chicago’s first non-indigenous settler finally got the honor his champions say he has long deserved, thanks to an on-again, off-again compromise that was back on again — and approved — at a City Council meeting Friday.

Three Hispanic aldermen joined 12 white aldermen in voting against the compromise.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blacksupremacy; chicago; dusable; lakeshoredrive; mlkedtheroad; obamasfault
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To: EC Washington

Yep, a high school, and a bridge, and a museum.

They wouldn’t settle for Midway being named after a black man, though, just like they wouldn’t settle for the Dan Ryan being renamed DuSable. They’ll demand to get O’Hare renamed Harold Washington Airport or something, just watch.


21 posted on 06/26/2021 7:23:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ConservativeStatement
BFD! To most New Yorkers it's still “The Triborough” and “The Tappan Zee”...so to folks in Chicago it will still be “Lake Shore Drive”.
22 posted on 06/26/2021 7:24:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Just like Sears Tower and Comisky Park, they can name it whatever they want but to those who live in the area, the name will never really change.


23 posted on 06/26/2021 7:25:28 AM PDT by TopDog2 (Onward Christian soldiers)
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To: ConservativeStatement
DuSable left the area before the city was founded.

He has no connection with the African American community other than his color.

If he were white he'd be denounced for genocide against the natives.

24 posted on 06/26/2021 7:29:39 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ConservativeStatement

I was astounded to learn that a few years ago, Lindbergh Field, San Diego’s airport, was renamed San Diego International Airport, and a mural of Charles Lindbergh has been removed. Never mind his stupendous and historic accomplishments, he’s now apparently seen as some sort of “racist,” probably just for being white.


25 posted on 06/26/2021 7:29:54 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: rey

Pretty blue lights along the way don’t give a s**t about DuSable


26 posted on 06/26/2021 7:34:27 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Bon of Babble

Tiny tail wags big dog...How did this happen?


27 posted on 06/26/2021 7:38:57 AM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: Bon of Babble
We are being replaced

Only if we let it happen ... only if we watch rather than act to stop the destruction of our Republic, just as the communist chinese cooties has done severe damage to our society.

28 posted on 06/26/2021 7:42:36 AM PDT by glennaro ("Until it's safe" means "never" (Dennis Prager))
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To: devane617

It’s a continuing policy of appeasement, by people who seem to be convinced that there is a perpetual debt owed to a demographic. If only modern liberals had monasteries and convents to go to, so they could lock themselves in a single room cell and scourge themselves all day long for their sins, the rest of society would not have to deal with their problems and treatment.


29 posted on 06/26/2021 8:03:24 AM PDT by Bernard (“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
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To: Bon of Babble
“A. B——v has told how executions were carried out at Adak – a camp on the Pechora River. They would take the opposition members ‘with their things’ out of the camp compound on a prisoner transport at night. And outside the compound stood the small house of the Third Section. The condemned men were taken into a room one at a time, and there the camp guards sprang on them. Their mouths were stuffed with something soft and their arms were bound with cords behinds their backs. Then they were led out into the courtyard, where harnessed carts were waiting. The bound prisoners were piled on the carts, from five to seven at a time, and driven off to the ‘Gorka’ – the camp cemetery. On arrival they were tipped into big pits that had already been prepared and buried alive. Not out of brutality, no. It had been ascertained that when dragging and lifting them, it was much easier to cope with living people than with corpses.

“This work went on for many nights at Adak.

“And that is how the moral-political unity of our Party was achieved.”

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - "The Gulag Archipelago"

30 posted on 06/26/2021 8:16:25 AM PDT by bassmaner (He y commies: I'm a white male, and guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Running south on Jean-Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive, heading into town…”


31 posted on 06/26/2021 8:17:49 AM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole; you had so much to offer, did you offer your soul?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Why is he the only settler to have something named after him.
No limit to stupidity.


32 posted on 06/26/2021 8:19:59 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“ Why aren’t they upset that Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was an evil colonizer who killed the indigenous peoples? ”

Because he wasn’t white.

White people (who are not gay or other even more extreme forms of pervert) are universally evil. Nonwhite people are universally good.

Feeling like a Jew during the Reich yet?


33 posted on 06/26/2021 8:25:14 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

COLOR is ALL that matters!


34 posted on 06/26/2021 8:48:39 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: TopDog2

Comisky Park pronounced Cominsky Park...


35 posted on 06/26/2021 8:50:39 AM PDT by stylin19a (I have kleptomania, but when it gets real bad, I take something for it.)
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To: Fiji Hill

I was astounded to learn that a few years ago, Lindbergh Field, San Diego’s airport, was renamed San Diego International Airport, and a mural of Charles Lindbergh has been removed.


How long before they get rid of ‘San Diego’? Can’t have “Saint “ as part of a city’s name. Speaking of Saints, St Louis Airport (Lambeau Field to Obama, Lambert Field to everyone else) has a full-sized replica of Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis hanging from the ceiling. Wonder if it will have to come down.


36 posted on 06/26/2021 9:18:10 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: rey

“Really screws the Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah song.”

No kidding.


37 posted on 06/26/2021 9:33:11 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ConservativeStatement

The ridiculously long street name will make it easier for travelers to get lost and end up in the wrong neighborhood, where they can be robbed and pay reparations.


38 posted on 06/26/2021 10:04:07 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: hanamizu

There is some justification to purging Lindbergh. He was a Nazi supporter and even received a medal from Hitlers regime.


39 posted on 06/26/2021 10:58:03 AM PDT by TopDog2 (Onward Christian soldiers)
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To: Boogieman

Too bad the Taylor Homes are gone - The Harold Washington Ply wood window Housing center would be perfect.


40 posted on 06/26/2021 11:03:09 AM PDT by EC Washington
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