Fittingly enough, on the feast of the Birth of St. John the Baptist.
Well that easily rolls off the tongue
Colonizer.
Think of all the bullet proof vests they could buy...
Will they be adding a statue of George Floyd to the mix in their new $40 million dollar park? *SMIRK*
Good thing Chicago has solved all of their black on black murder cases, so they have time for this really important stuff! *SPIT*
When will the howls of rage start over separation of Church and State? Did they not realize that “John the Baptist” has ... religious connotations?
Yet more proof of white supremacy, white colonization of the indigenous lands.
1619 and all that.
— uh wait.
[they can’t even keep their stories straight. America is indelibly racist and white supremacist. The number two city in the nation (for centuries) was founded by a black man]
Why don’t they just go ahead and rename the whole city of Chicago ?
There could be a contest, choosing between the names of 12 dead, black criminals.
So renaming the road gives the babies hope?
Oh, I see what they’ve done. Just added “Jean Baptiste Point DuSable” onto “Lake Shore Drive”. People will still call it Lake Shore Drive.
Oh Pulease - I am sure Chicago would be sitting there undiscovered to this day if not for Jean....
“None of us would be here.” Yeah, right. Just the next fur trapper a couple weeks later.
If he founded the city, why didn’t he name it Point DuSable?
Borrowed/stole this from ‘somewhere’...
“The Republic Has Fallen…our once great republic is no more. It failed with the bogus election which installed an interloper with the deliberate help of both political parties and, of course, the media. There is law no more. Only men.”
They’d probably hate him if he were alive today?
As a native Chicagoan, I just can’t get bent out of shape of over this. People will still call it Lake Shore Drive (or LSD), just like nobody (besides tourists) refers to the Sears Tower as the Willis Tower or refers to The Hancock as 875 North Michigan.
It’s like all those stupid honorary “ways” and “lanes” that city leaders attach to streets that nobody pays any attention to.
They really don’t have anything more important to do, I guess.
This is pure bunk.
DuSable already had a bridge, a high school, an Afrocentric museum, a public park, and a sculpture named for him. Anyone who claims that Chicago overlooked this nomadic fur trader is lying.
DuSable lived in the vicinity of Chicago for a time, but he was a man on the move who also spent time in other areas that would become Detroit, Peoria and St. Louis.
DuSable died and was presumably buried in Missouri long before Illinois achieved statehood in 1818 and Chicago was organized as a town in 1833.
Aren’t all non indigenous settlers colonialists?