[Rebeleye]

Little Rock (AP) - The city of Little Rock has erased "Confederate Boulevard'' from interstate highway signs. Replacing the signs are exit markers leading motorists to a road that honors a black community leader.

Confederate Boulevard still runs north from Interstate 440 near the Little Rock Airport, but signs for Exit One now tout "Springer Boulevard,'' which runs south from I-440 and honors Horace Springer, who lived in the area.

The Confederate Boulevard signs had been the first landmarks many saw after landing at the city's airport. They were changed as Little Rock welcomed presidents, dignitaries and celebrities for the opening of Bill Clinton's presidential library.

Mayor Jim Dailey says the Confederate Boulevard signs were "bothersome'' and that the city is continuing to try to, "dispel those things that divide us.''

[NJ Neocon]

I loathe the Neoconfedrate mythos and signs like this (as well as the flag flap) but I don't LIVE in these states that continue to glorify the Confederacy. It is the people's choice - the people of the state in question not mine.

This strikes me as the height of hypoxia and rejection of the public will. Appropriate for the Sink Emperor.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[cyborg]

very interesting... didn't Clinton sign some sort of confederate flag day when he was governor?

[Arkinsaw]

Might as well face it, the cities are blue territory and they will erase history as they see fit and rename a lot of stuff the way they want it renamed. They live there, they vote there. The only way to change it is to move back into the cities and vote. Its not worth it. Little Rock is full of limousine liberals and this is their doing. Confederate Blvd. wasn't controversial and the black community lived with it in their midst for a long time and they were not the trigger for this one. It was Bill and cronies.

Energy is better expended saving history in a thousand small towns than expending it all fighting a bunch of losing battles in the hopeless blue cities.

[The Great Yazoo]

Maybe all things Confederate should be renamed "Southern Separatist."

[dancusa]

Clinton Country is a Potemkin village.

[Route101]

Another P.C. numbnut...Major Jim Daily......

[stainlessbanner]

The Revisionists march on

[Pompah]

Spineless yankee jellyfish. Just when you think you can't
possibly loath the "Bubba" crowd more than you do.

"Bothersome." What a Demo-Dork.

[sweetliberty]

You have no idea how much this infuriates me! I am sick to death of the RATs trying to erase even the memory of the Confederacy, and even sicker of so-called conservatives allowing it.

[lentulusgracchus]

Mayor Jim Dailey says the Confederate Boulevard signs were "bothersome'' and that the city is continuing to try to, "dispel those things that divide us.''

I wholeheartedly agree, and I herewith insist that every public monument, place-naming, and other reference to the Civil Rights Movement be removed immediately.

America needs more healing, not more "division" and "contention" or reminders of "the things that divide us".