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 ...
Little by little, statue by statue, street by street, our founders’ names - and our history - are being systematically erased.
This is what happens in times of revolution.
We are being replaced.
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” ― George Orwell, 1984It’s happening before our very eyes.
Why aren’t they upset that Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was an evil colonizer who killed the indigenous peoples?
Isn't that the opposite of what's happening here? Nobody I ever heard of was named "Lake Shore." Whereas DuSable is a genuine part of history because he was the first settler of Chicago. The new name is dumb because it's long and wordy and won't actually be used by anybody. But it's not erasing history.
Meanwhile, on Chicago’s west side 20 people were shot last night, none of whom know or care who DuSable was.
Same as "Avenue in the Americas" in NYC. Everyone still refers to it as Sixth Avenue.
The local news media will mandate the use of “DuSable Drive” instead of “Lake Shore Drive” or “Outer Drive”.
But as people continue to flee the dying city, will they even notice?
Look at the House of Representatives for an example. The majority of the maggots ignore the districts that they are from and instead, engage in national politics, making decisions that are well beyond their scope. Who do these m fers think they are? The districts of many of these morons are 3rd world sh*tholes and yet, they ignore their districts in favor of participating in transforming the entire nation.
Every politician engaging in these decisions should be shot.
He’s a legitimate historical figure. He was one of the original settlers (I think it is woke to say colonizer) of the Chicago area and there have long been streets and other things named after him.
Seems he was a capitalist as he ran several businesses.
The British didn’t like him as he was considered a patriot loyal to the establishment of of the US (Founded with racist ideals, don’t you know.)
He was also smart enough to leave Chicago before it became Chicongo.
Geeze...it will ALWAYS be Lake Shore Drive to me and many others who grew up in/around Chicago.
NOPE! Born and Raised in Chicago. Lake Shore Drive it will always be!!
St Petersburg was known as Leningrad for a long time - about 70 years? Eventually it became St Petersburg again.
I want to see all that on a street sign.
Yes. After the Kremlin fell.
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Where have Yeltsin and Putin operated out of post Evil Empire? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Kremlin isn't clear on that.
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He already had a High School named after him - what next Midway Airport?
This isn't even the dumbest street renaming in Chicago history though. For that one I have to go with the time that the Polish community lobbied to get an "honorary street name" plaque honoring Gen. Casimir Pulaski, and they got it, but the plaque is attached to the street that had already been named "Pulaski Rd" for decades. So it's "Pulaski Rd - Honorary Casimir Pulaski Way", with 2 different Pulaski signs on every street sign now:
Are there sill mass killings going in Russia on as there were after the Revolution? Mass, government-induced starvation as there was during the Ukrainian Holomodor?
"How long will you keep killing people?" asked Lady Astor of Stalin in 1931.
Replied Stalin: "the process would continue as long as was necessary" to establish a communist society.
Probably 61,911,000 people, 54,769,000 of them citizens, have been murdered by the Communist Party--the government--of the Soviet Union.-- Death by GoverenmentOld and young, healthy and sick, men and women, and even infants and infirm, were killed in cold-blood. They were not combatants in civil war or rebellions, they were not criminals. Indeed, nearly all were guilty of ... nothing.
Some were from the wrong class--bourgeoisie, land owners, aristocrats, kulaks. Some were from the wrong nation or race-- Ukrainians, Black Sea Greeks, Kalmyks, Volga Germans. Some were from the wrong political faction--Trotskyites, Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries. Or some were just their sons and daughters, wives and husbands, or mothers and fathers. And some were those occupied by the Red Army--Balts, Germans, Poles, Hungarians, Rumanians. Then some were simply in the way of social progress, like the mass of peasants or religious believers. Or some were eliminated because of their potential opposition, such as writers, teachers, churchmen; or the military high command; or even high and low Communist Party members themselves.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/USSR.CHAP.1.HTM
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