Hollywood (Florida) OKs plan to rename streets named for Confederate leaders

[Eugene]

Source: Sun Sentinel

Hollywood OKs plan to rename streets named for Confederate leaders

By Susannah Bryan and Brooke Baitinger
Sun Sentinel

AUGUST 31, 2017, 12:10 AM | HOLLYWOOD

“Hey Hey, Ho Ho, these racist streets have got to go!”

That message, chanted by dozens of protesters Wednesday outside Hollywood City Hall, urged city commissioners to end a long-running controversy over three streets that honor Confederate war leaders.

On Wednesday night, commissioners approved a plan to rename streets named for Confederate commanders Robert E. Lee, John Bell Hood and Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was also the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. One key detail — what the new names will be — will be taken up next week.

“Today we’re being asked to erase from our city’s maps symbols of men whose deeds symbolized hatred and bigotry for an entire race of people, who believed they should be kept in chains,” Mayor Josh Levy said before the vote. “We don’t believe that in 2017. We don’t endorse hate; we don’t endorse symbols of hate.”

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Read more: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/hollywood/fl-sb-street-names-hollywood-protest-day-20170829-story.html

[dhol82]

1. What ever happened to just naming streets after trees?

Or flowers, or the developers kids?

[ProudLib72]

2. There was one bad hombre involved, though

A lone protester wanted the street names to stay. Christopher Rey Monzon, 22, of Hialeah, stood alone waving a Confederate flag.

“Nathan Bedford Forrest, Hood and Lee were all good Christian men who fought for the South and the Southern nation,” he told the Sun Sentinel. “We need to defend our heritage and identity in the South — and our history.”

Later, he clashed with other protesters, saying: “White man made this country. You are lucky to be here.”

At one point Monzon tried to jump the security barricade to get to a protester on the other side. Police wrestled him to the ground, put him in handcuffs and led him away from the crowd.

Monzon was arrested on charges of aggravated assault, disorderly conduct and inciting a riot, police said.

All these idiot counter protesters seem to be fairly young.

[procon]

3. My town started out naming streets by numbers and letters in the alphabet.

Its the source of endless bad humor.

I live on "A" Street.
My friend lives on "D" Street near the overpass.

[Sedona]

4. I lived on Lee St in Hollywood in the 80's

I never even realized it was named after RE Lee