City council renames Durango Blvd. Cesar Chavez Blvd., Judge tells city to hold off (San Antonio: safe, land)
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Wow. Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Chavez was a Navy veteran who was actually AGAINST illegal immigration because unscrupulous U.S. interests kept "importing" workers from down south and thus fought against organized movements for workers' rights HERE. Like him or hate him--just get your facts right!
Oh yeah--he was born in Arizona. And he's also the most well known Hispanic/Latino civil rights activist in this country's history, even though he fought mainly for farmworkers regardless of their race/ethnicity.
Although I am completely against the street-name change (mainly for fiscal reasons), I appreciate you setting the facts straight about Chavez.
It is all so very amusing, now that the tables at City Council have turned one hundred and eighty degrees ! Wow, I read each and every post here and marvel, reaching a very deep level level of satisfaction I rarely get out of seeing social change, especially- the ones occurring locally , and at the outrage. An inner sense of hilarity also occurs from this perspective. This is FUN, whichever way it ends. This symbolizes more than a (shanged) street name. Democracy works.
I guess one would have to have experienced what was experienced by
me in the not too distant past- and people like me, Americans we are- to have this outlook. To have witnessed and seen it. Irresponsibility by the S.A. Council on this name change you say ?
Nah, Disregard. Yes. It is business as usual in San Antonio but with a twist.
They were elected, all of them?
I will remember at each and every signpost ,what the changes symbolize, I remember everything, don't worry, I won't forget. It is the outraged, being held up to public scorn and screaming out about it, that chooses to forget. Change the street name- just to right past social iniquities. Man- can we ever- hate what this change stands for, what it symbolizes. Just cannot believe it , and won't stand for it. So we scream for mercy. We.
These- symptoms of changes- have only just begun, lest we forget. It merely hasn't reached the media yet, soon we will be on cable T.V. too. As for now we are held invisible, but we have the vote and we have time and nowadays social justice. Slow Social change will creep along regardless of what we do. That is
what makes this country work, regardless of what antbody will try to explain to you.
Here, in this place, that makes all the difference.
Viva Rick Perry? Nahhhh.
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Originally Posted by SnappyBob
In every poll I have seen, the percentage of people in favor of this is in the single digits. This is obviously a very unpopular agenda that was pushed through by a Hispanic majority on our city council. A majority city council who did not care what the majority of citizens wanted. This is a Hispanic majority city council thumping it's chest in bravado to show what they can do. The citizens of this city would do well to take notice. Every time you see those Caesar Chavez street signs on the surface roads and freeways remember how they got there. The Hispanic majority city government of San Antonio has shown their level of irresponsibility and they have chosen to display it on street signs downtown and on major freeways. Let those signs be a reminder in the next election.
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