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Amy-Strange

(854 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 07:12 PM Jun 2020

New York City will name a street 'Black Lives Matter' in each burough

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New York City will name a street 'Black Lives Matter' in each burough

New York City will name a street at a "crucial" location in each borough for "Black Lives Matter," Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.

"What will be clear — the street name and on the streets of our city — is that message that now this city must fully, fully deeply feel and this nation must as well, that Black Lives Matter," de Blasio said.

One of the locations will be near City Hall, and the other locations will be decided with participants, activists and city leaders, de Blasio said.

"Black Lives Matter" will also be painted on the streets.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-city-will-name-a-street-black-lives-matter-in-each-burough/ar-BB15fGUL?ocid=spartanntp
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New York City will name a street 'Black Lives Matter' in each burough (Original Post) Amy-Strange Jun 2020 OP
I would rather they stop treating black people horribly. Jamastiene Jun 2020 #1
I would like to see both Marrah_Goodman Jun 2020 #2
How about they choose the streets next to the buildings of the dirtiest precincts? RockRaven Jun 2020 #3
Rename an entire borough MichMan Jun 2020 #4
Hope it is the same blocks that have Trump properties. Trumpocalypse Jun 2020 #5
New tRump Tower address SeattleVet Jun 2020 #7
Worthless stunt to make it look like he's doing something! 4139 Jun 2020 #6

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
1. I would rather they stop treating black people horribly.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 07:15 PM
Jun 2020

Why do politicians think naming streets and other silly shit like that will solve a problem? That is just silly. It doesn't change anything. It is an insult as a response to the deaths of so many black people at the hands of violent cops.

We need out of touch aristocrats out of politics before anything meaningful will happen to effect actual change.

RockRaven

(14,958 posts)
3. How about they choose the streets next to the buildings of the dirtiest precincts?
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 07:30 PM
Jun 2020

Like DC did with the White House.

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
7. New tRump Tower address
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 08:20 PM
Jun 2020

725 Black Lives Matter Avenue, NY, NY 10022

Has a sort of nice ring to it.

Make sure to extend the renaming far enough to take in Jared's building, too.

666 Black Lives Matter Avenue, NY, NY 10022

Other cities could do the same, for every street that has a tRump-branded property.

1100 S. Black Lives Matter Boulevard, Palm Beach, FL 33480 (Merde-a-Loco)

(As an alternative name a nearby street Black Lives Matter, and rename all of the streets that contain tRump-branded properties to "President Barack Obama Boulevard". I could live with that, too.)

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