Birmingham to rename 16th Street to Black Lives Matter Blvd

CBS42 ^ | Jun 19, 2020 | Cory McGinnis, Shannon Robinson

[plain talk]

The Birmingham City Council will meet next Tuesday to consider renaming a portion of Sixteenth Street North to Black Lives Matter Boulevard.

The resolution is seeking to rename Sixteenth Street North from First Avenue North to Sixth Avenue North as a way to honor the BLM movement and join that with Birmingham’s history of civil rights activism. The street was the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement and the site of one of the most egregious racially-motivated hate crimes in history – the church bombing that killed four little girls and sent shockwaves around the world.

[TangoLimaSierra]

To become the new MLK Blvd.

[dp0622]

No you won’t. And neither will I.

But the other side will keep tearing down what they want and putting up what they want.

While we talk tough :)

And then one day when the military is in the left’s hands, it will be a little too late.

i don’t really like this waiting and hoping idea.

but there doesn’t seem to be anyone on our side who will lead a physical resistance.

[umgud]

What about Lynchburg, TN?

[dp0622]

That means they can fund an army out there day and night and get better weapons including bombs.

no mote Molotov cocktails for them

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe Bill Ayers will show them how to buildabomb.

9-11-2001 in the NY Times he went on record to say he couldn’t say he wouldn’t ever do it again.

[Mr Rogers]

Can one program a GPS to provide a 3 mile warning zone around the intersection of “Black Lives Matter Street” and “Martin Luther King Blvd”?

[Graybeard58]

NOBEL: Physics? Where’s Sheldon Cooper’s name?

[pfflier]

I have looked around my community and have realized there are millions of black bodies in our past. I urge all of you to join me in reflecting on those losses and remember that "Black Flies Matter".

[Tunehead54]

Yep - Now its never take the MLK or the BLM exit.

Flat tire? Just keep driving on the rim. Sigh. Least they’re labeled as no go zones.

Probably want to avoid Obama Blvd. exits as well.

[Levy78]

anddddddd…. we’ll all take it like the good little conservatives we are.

[Gay State Conservative]

So now Birmingham will have at least *two* streets that resemble cesspools.Every “Martin Luther King Blvd” you find in the country is a cesspool...and now the same will be true about Black Lives Matter Blvd.

[Tommy Revolts]

BLM’s coffers are now into the billion dollar range thanks to corporate America.

Yep, schooled em big time! As they say in the 'hood', punked dose white mo f*ckahs, yeah.

[lerker]

If anyone is local to bham, I got banned from the birmingham city reddit by an insane liberal mod, so I created https://www.reddit.com/r/the_magic_city/ to talk about bham without suppressing free speech.. stop on by if you want to red pill some folks.

[bgill]

How many tax dollars will be wasted on this stunt? How many businesses will be out $$ changing all their addresses?

[Bonemaker]

“...and made to cough up protection money...”

Same as “dash” in Africa.

[CJ Wolf]

I wonder if they will tear down this statue.

[oincobx]

I don’t think this will actually pass given the significance of 16th St.

[golux]

LOL!

[faithhopecharity]

racist trash

[bort]

Personally, I’m all in favor of this name change. Just like all of the MLK streets in urban areas—it basically tells me-—STAY THE HELL OUT OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.