> Sure it's confusing when street names change -- I used to live near Marcus
Garvey
> Blvd in Brooklyn, and lots of maps still had the old name, and of course
it
> was annoying -- but in this case people should deal with it because
> it's...can we still use this word, I hope so...Progress. (A city full of
> streets and parks named only after white people sends the clear message
that
> whites are the only people whose history is worthy of public note.)
I would be annoyed if my street was renamed after a crook like Garvey..."Frantz Fanon Boulevard" has a much better ring to it ;-)
In the late 1980s, there was an almost-successful campaign to rename a street in Canberra which housed the South African Embassy, "Nelson Mandela Street", thereby forcing the apartheiders to recieve mail bearing the name of their most famous political prisoner. The campaign foundered for the usual reasons, probably including some latent racism.
Grant.