Posted on 07/31/2014 7:25:41 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
... In the 1950s and 60s, Arthur Godfrey exhorted the nation over the airwaves to come to Miami Beach and, in thanks, the city co-named 41st Street as Arthur Godfrey Road....
More than half a century later, the Miami Beach Commission is entertaining a proposal to remove his name from the street. The commissioner calling for the change says he is not relevant anymore; others allege he was anti-Semitic and his name should not grace one of the defining thoroughfares of the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
To be renamed “Beyoncé Boulevard”?
I guess soon they will take my name off my birth certificate as I will not be fit enough to have been born in the Socialist States of the US.
The Miami Beach Commission has no humility.
I’m confused. I thought anti-Semitism was now REQUIRED of all card-carrying Democrats.
What sayeth this idiot councel about the Obamadork?
Baby Doc Road.
If his name had been “Godfree”, there would not be a problem.
Can a street named “Treyvan” be far away?
Arthur Godfrey was a mean SOB and one of the great pioneers of television. Does everybody have to be certified as a politically correct saint before we’re permitted to remember them? Let’s just name every road, school, bridge, hospital and fire hydrant in the country after Martin Luther King Jr. and get it over with.
Godfrey got too big for his britches from fame and fortune. He became an arrogant ass.
I can remember my parents remarking on what he did to Julius LaRosa, firing him on the air.
That was the beginning of the end of Godfrey’s career.
They would rename the city Obama Beach if they hhought they could get away with it.
They would rename the city Obama Beach if they thought they could get away with it.
How about Redskin Blvd?
Just tell the Commissioners that in 50-60 years, they won’t be relevant either.
Why isn’t the left screaming to have the racist Robert Byrd’s name taken off all the buildings in W.Va?
Robert Byrd — The only white man in America who got away with using the “N-word” on TV.
Of course he probably thinks George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are no longer relevant either.
He was a TV host....who gives a shite!!!
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