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dedhed Donating Member (353 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 10:47 AM
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Florida town changes MLK street name
ZEPHYRHILLS, Florida (AP) -- The city council of this central Florida town tried to settle a bitter, monthslong dispute by voting Monday to change Martin Luther King Avenue back to its original name of Sixth Avenue, while keeping up street signs with both names.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/05/11/mlk.street.ap/index.html

Check out some of the reasons for wanting to remove King's name... pitiful.

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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 10:50 AM
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1. Interesting comment ...
Ben Youmans, who lives on Sixth Avenue, said he opposed renaming the street because of King's opposition to the Vietnam War.

"I don't consider Martin Luther King to be an icon or a hero to be looked up to," he said.

But I'm sure he'll vote for * anyways.
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TroglodyteScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 10:54 AM
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2. Of course MLK isn't someone to be respected...
If it weren't for people like MLK, I'd still be able to enjoy a nice meal in public with my Aryan family and friends without laying eyes on any coloreds (except maybe the busboys). What have they done to our fine nation?!

:eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes:
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demdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 10:54 AM
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3. Others said renaming a street after King could hurt the town's economy,
Could be, when the facts are so blatant that comedians are using them in their acts. Humor always has truth in it, otherwise it isn't funny.


As comedian Chris Rock joked: "I don't care where you live in America, if you're on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's some violence going down. If a friend calls you on the telephone and says they're lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard and they want to know what they should do, the best response is "Run" ".
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 11:00 AM
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7. Maybe an NAACP-organized boycott will help clarify the economic issue.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 02:59 PM
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22. For a boycott to be successful.....
People need to want to go there in the first place. As in: "The cultural delights of Zephyrville truly tempted (our group) to hold our convention there. But because of the boycott, we had to settle for San Francisco, instead." (Or New York, or Chicago, or Atlanta, or San Antonio....)
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 04:00 PM
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24. LOL Point taken!
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el_gato Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 11:28 AM
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10. that does not hold true in my town

so I would dispute your "facts"
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Supormom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:26 PM
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18. In St Paul, MN
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd runs right past the state capital. Most of the state government buildings are located on the Blvd.
:toast:
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 02:18 PM
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20. In Albuquerque
(which also has a Avenida Cesar Chavez I might add) MLK is not far from the University of New Mexico.
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skippysmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 11:33 AM
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11. Actually
it would seem that most towns name a street in the poor, African American section town after MLK, so that they look enlightened but don't piss any white people off.

I think it's the poverty that comes before the street name, not the other way around.

These people are ludicrous.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 11:38 AM
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13. There's a great documentary on this topic
If you're lucky you can catch it on your local PBS station.
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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 04:18 PM
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25. good call
If it were really the case that, somehow, naming a street after King causes it to become a haven for crime, that's one hell of an interesting sociological phenomenon to look into.

"Hey, they changed Sixth Street to MLK Street. Let's go there and make some trouble!"
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 10:56 AM
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4. Unbelievable!
<snip>
"Others said renaming a street after King could hurt the town's economy, as streets named after him elsewhere frequently run through poor neighborhoods."
<snip>

Right, those neighborhoods are depressed because of a street name.

I got dizzy reading that.
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 10:57 AM
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5. these are the same gomers who
will labor for *years* to get every airport, high school and library named after Saints Reagan and Bush.

One thing the GOP understands better than us: marketing. Tear down the opposition's branding, and replace it with theirs.
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 11:47 AM
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16. I have no problem with repubs naming prisons after Reagan
The Ronald Reagan Center for the Ethically Challenged.
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rabid_nerd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 10:59 AM
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6. LOL! Water name...
Edited on Tue May-11-04 10:59 AM by rabid_nerd
Zephyrhills is a brand of water.

I always jokingly called it Syphilis water.. I called it Zef-i-rills before someone pointed out it was Zef-er-hills...

On Edit: I used to live in So. Florida
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 11:11 AM
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8. new name: the crack spot
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 11:17 AM
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9. Why not call it Bigot Way?
That would both convey the attitude, and be easily remembered.

http://www.wgoeshome.com
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 11:38 AM
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12. I hope this will start a trend to remove all those Ronald Reagan
Boulevards and Streets. Now, why do we want to commemorate someone who was at the helm during the Iran-Contra fiasco?
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damnraddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 11:42 AM
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15. We know the true reason they want 'Sixth' = devil worship.
Yeah, 6 is the imperfect number, as in 666. ;-)
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central scrutinizer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:58 PM
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19. no, 6 is the smallest perfect number
The definition of perfect number - if the factors of a number (excepting the number itself) add up to the number, it is called perfect. The factors of 6 are 1, 2, 3 and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. The next smallest one is 28. 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28.
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Sparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 11:57 AM
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17. The reasons these people give for not keeping MLK
as the street name is pathetic at best.
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callous taoboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 03:59 PM
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23. How about
19th Century Blvd.

Jim Crow Way

Strom Thurmond Lane

Whites Only Ave.

What a fucking day in the news.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 02:35 PM
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21. Perhaps they would prefer "David Duke Drive"?
with a nice white line painted down the middle... :-)
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keithyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:09 PM
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26. "The tone is set at the top."
It's been this way since the Republicans have been in power.
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