[xrp]

Caucasian people are moving back inside Atlanta city limits in droves so they can avoid Atlanta traffic.

Hartsfield's actions decades ago led to the construction of the airport, which is widely viewed as the single action in Atlanta's past 50 years that is responsible for its growth and development and rise as the capital of the South.

Maynard Jackson was a corrupt individual who implemented a minority disadvantage program at the airport so that 'disadvantaged blacks' would be able to have a greater chance at opening businesses in the airport and running them. Jackson, already a millionaire, opened a TGI Friday's in Concourse B at the airport and he used this disadvantaged program to get his restaurant there. How can someone who is already a millionaire be disadvantaged?

[FreeAtlanta]

I think roads, buildings, airports, etc. that are already named for someone, should not be "renamed." It defeats the purpose of first naming the object after someone. It is insulting. I don't care what I may accomplish in life, I don't want an honor taken away from someone else, to give it to me. It is stealing. JMO

[Chancellor Palpatine]

For anybody who has been through there in the last several years, the name "Hartsfield" is not one which is thought of kindly.

I'd only name that lowest level of hell after somebody I truly despised.

[Publius6961]

Overwhelmingly, they said to remove the name of William B. Hartsfield and replace it with Jackson, creator of a landmark affirmative action program. Hartsfield, who served as mayor for two decades and championed Atlanta as an aviation center, was either forgotten or dismissed as a symbol of Atlanta's racist past.

It takes a singularly tiny mind to fail to see the unintended consquences of willy-nilly renaming public facilities.

Yes, I have an opinion on this particularl incident, but that's irrelevant.

When sheer force of numbers or whimsy becomes the criterion, no name will last long ever again.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

How 'bout "William T. Sherman International Airport". He certainly made about as much of an impact on 'Lanta as Maynard Jackson. It's likely ole MJ wouldn't been mayor without him. Or "Scarlet O'Hara International" or "Rhett Butler" or "Henry Aaron"?

[Political Junkie Too]

Why revoke an honor that was already given? Can't they find something else to name after Jackson?

-PJ