Atlanta City Council to take up renaming Confederate Avenue (Marietta: gated, buildings)

[Atlanta Scientist]

Originally Posted by Carolina Knight

There have been movements nationwide to change and remove names of streets, buildings, and monuments named after individuals involved in the Confederacy. If a specific group is being affected, why not expand the practice to other groups, or do not rename anything at all?

That is the reasoning for the removal or changing of the things you listed. I'm not saying that this is wrong or right but from a purely logical standpoint, why would MLK and Jimmy Carter be changed if the changes are because of involvement or association with the confederacy?

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by Carolina Knight

If the City of Atlanta is opening the door to change the names of streets, streets named after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jimmy Carter being renamed become possible.

Originally Posted by Carolina Knight

If the City of Atlanta would not mess with street named after iconic heroes, anything named after Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson would not be messed with.

I know you did not just try to equate Martin Luther King, Jr. to literal traitors.

[0nyxStation]

Georgia has reached a point in time where that confederate stuff needs to wiped clean. It is good Atlanta is leading the way on this. Georgia has seemed to always lead the way of hitting the delete button when it comes to bad history in the antebellum south. Hopefully Alabama & South Caroline can follow suit.

[Carolina Knight]

Originally Posted by toll_booth

I know you did not just try to equate Martin Luther King, Jr. to literal traitors.

How and who do you define as literal traitors?

[jsvh]

Originally Posted by arjay57

If this is done can it just be named something simple like Elm Street, instead of Professor Albus Reginald Dumbledore III Memorial Boulevard?

Agreed.

"Turner Dr" > "Ted Turner Drive North West Historic Spring Street"

[Carolina Knight]

Originally Posted by Atlanta Scientist

That is the reasoning for the removal or changing of the things you listed. I'm not saying that this is wrong or right but from a purely logical standpoint, why would MLK and Jimmy Carter be changed if the changes are because of involvement or association with the confederacy?

I hate to say there is a revisionist history movement going on. Everyone wants to write out the confederacy out of history. Renaming anything named after those involved in the Confederacy is part of that movement. What happens if history of the civil rights movement is written out?

If everyone wants to coexist, why not honor more individuals in both the confederacy, the union, and the civil rights movement with streets, buildings, and monuments?

[bu2]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Wholly agree. This constant street name changing is a bit silly. But, in this instance, it is long over due.

Well this wasn't "honoring" the confederacy. It was just practical. There was at one point a Confederate old soldiers home on Confederate Avenue, thereby giving it the name. It was named just like all those "Mill" streets here, named after a mill that existed at one point in time at the end of the road.

If the residents want it changed, change it.

[arjay57]

I am okay with renaming Confederate as long as it's a one word name.

However, as one historian said, "... if we continue to eradicate indelible references to Atlanta’s past such as street names, we run the risk of being known not as the 'city too busy to hate' but rather as the 'city too timid to remember.'''

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Wholly agree. This constant street name changing is a bit silly. But, in this instance, it is long over due.

Just wait until the John Lewis Freedom Pkwy signs begin to appear.

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by bu2

If the residents want it changed, change it.

This.