Confederate Sympathizers Say Hollywood Shouldn't Change Street Names (FL)

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1. I'd love to see more street names for African American heroes and martyrs

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.