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Could Barton Springs be renamed?
KXAN ^ | 11/29/23 | Sam Stark

Posted on 11/29/2023 6:54:05 PM PST by Levy78

I think at some point, all of us started referring to [Barton] spring as ‘The Spring,’” said Pedro Villalobos, Chair of the Parks and Recreation Board. “That’s because of the baggage that it carries with it.”

We are recommending based off of William Barton’s known ownership of enslaved people – and given the Confederate Monument Resolution passed by City Council – we are recommending that there be an effort to rename Barton Springs,” Villalobos, who served on the working group, continued.

William Barton was known as someone who wanted to participate in the extinction of Native Americans,” Marshall said in May. “And the fact that he enslaved people, we just want to make sure that that’s known as well,” she said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: austin; bartonsprings; texas
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If you want a real laugh… click the link to see what the commies propose the name be changed to.
1 posted on 11/29/2023 6:54:05 PM PST by Levy78
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To: Levy78

Wait till these effwads learn that Stephen F. Austin owned slaves.

I wonder then what they will rename their weird city?


2 posted on 11/29/2023 6:56:54 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Levy78

What, Ti++y Springs?


3 posted on 11/29/2023 6:57:50 PM PST by OKSooner ("You're not gonna like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They’re working their way up the ladder… end game is rename Austin to ‘Santa Anna’ and demolishing the Alamo and making it a mass grave site for native white Texans.


4 posted on 11/29/2023 7:00:02 PM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Levy78

When are they going to get around to calling for renaming America, district of Columbia, and all the other names associated with the settlement of our country?


5 posted on 11/29/2023 7:01:53 PM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“I wonder then what they will rename their weird city?”

Grant.


6 posted on 11/29/2023 7:03:55 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: OKSooner

Joe Biden’s Bathouse


7 posted on 11/29/2023 7:04:18 PM PST by cabojoe ( 🇺🇸 Stop Ukie censorship. Release Gonzalo Lira)
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To: Levy78

8 posted on 11/29/2023 7:05:00 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Reno89519

“When are they going to get around to calling for renaming America, district of Columbia, and all the other names associated with the settlement of our country?”

After November 2024; if not before.


9 posted on 11/29/2023 7:05:46 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Levy78

I always love it when the commies ask themselves a theoretical question and spread it through their wind tunnel.


10 posted on 11/29/2023 7:10:23 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Levy78
Something like 50 government buildings or roads are named after the late senator Robert Byrd. And Byrd was an Exalted Cyclops in the KKK. Those names are gonna be changed for sure!

Oh, wait. Byrd was a powerful Democrat and a friend of Joe Biden. Never mind.


11 posted on 11/29/2023 7:10:59 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Jeez, I wonder if students at Steven F. Austin University knows that? Going to a university that is named for a slaveowner! 🤓


12 posted on 11/29/2023 7:17:30 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: Levy78

The guy is a flaming Austin Leftist that has spent his young life working for the Lying Leftist Media cabals.

Pure lunacy.


13 posted on 11/29/2023 7:17:56 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Here’s this shitbag’s email addy if you wanna give him a piece of your mind.

pedro.villalobos@austintexas.gov


14 posted on 11/29/2023 7:21:40 PM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Have the heathens renamed Corpus Christi yet?


15 posted on 11/29/2023 7:22:18 PM PST by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: Deplorable American1776

I have always wondered when they are going to change the name of the Lyndon B. (I’ll have them n*ggers voting Democrat for 200 years) Johnson School of Public of Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin.


16 posted on 11/29/2023 7:24:26 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Levy78

Waste of band width.

He really needs to be his head out of his posterior.

1/2 of Austin lives in a illusion world (like AI). Reality is no where connected.


17 posted on 11/29/2023 7:26:39 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Reno89519

That’s coming.


18 posted on 11/29/2023 7:28:15 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Leaning Right

And, that’s Manchin behind Byrd.


19 posted on 11/29/2023 7:29:30 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Levy78

Just name it after Barton MacLane and call it good.


20 posted on 11/29/2023 8:02:22 PM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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