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BY ANTONIA NOORI FARZAN
FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2016 AT 8:34 A.M.
... since New Times pointed out that several streets in a historically black neighborhood in Hollywood are named for former Confederate generals ... the debate has brought neo-Confederates out of the woodwork ...
Brian Turner, a member of the Sunshine State Heritage Political Action Committee, argued that the city should honor all veteransincluding Confederate veterans. Social media has controlled this, has dominated this, and has not given the American public and our elected officials a fair story of our leaders, he said.
Comments like his disturbed Romano Lopez, who had come to the meeting to speak about a different issue. If these same veterans that these gentlemen are trying to honor had succeeded, half the people sitting here today would not be able to speak in this forum, he pointed out. These people wanted to extinguish everyone who was not white ...
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/confederate-sympathizers-say-hollywood-shouldnt-change-street-names-7854909
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(2,978 posts)I suspect ongoing latent racism in suburbia however would keep developers from ever going with that theme.
In Wilmington NC it'd be good to see some names of the prominent African American businessmen who were driven out/killed in the 1898 massacre as well as famous teachers at Williston. Developers could probably pull it off because there's such a cult developing down there around "ancestors" that the incoming transplants would appreciate it.
I'm a big advocate of adding more memorials and recognition of the African American experience rather than destroying/eliminating confederate ones. I don't want confederate history to be erased because children need to understand the complexity of well-meaning people participating in an evil system and how we can all be complicitous in such systems at any time.