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Sorry, but if you would let the child behave like a child and not mirror the same behavior, then only one person would look like an ******* instead of two.
As we all know, Mayor Bowser of Washington DC has decreed that a prominent section of 16th Street NW, as it approaches the White House, be renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza” - and new signs are already in place. Two questions:
1) Is Black Lives Matter Plaza support for the idea that black lives matter, just as all lives of course matter, or is it expressing support for the Black Lives Matter organization, which itself has ties to bigoted organizations (bigoted against groups other than blacks, of course). This is a critical difference.
2) Does the mayor have full authority to simply rename streets at will? Is there not a council to review options, perhaps have public input, and so forth, especially given the prominence of the location and the controversial nature of the Black Lives Matter organization with which the name is associated?
Neither are appropriate. The areas near the White House need to be left alone.
Bowser's motivation is simply TDS. I hope the City Council shoots this ridiculous idea down.
Specific to Black Lives Matter Plaza, it is a north-south street located parallel to, and to the west of, 15th Street, N.W., and to the east of 17th Street, N.W. Thus, its proper designation is 16th Street, N.W.
Absolutely none of these procedures were followed in this case. Will the Council guard the prerogatives of its authority? Or will it cave in to the Mayor's whim?
Thank you for all that information. I will use it to raise the issue as to why the liberal mayor, like so much liberals we’ve seen in recent weeks, has overstepped her authority in making decisions.
She's just trolling the president and whoever is in charge of putting up the signs is in on it. The legality of it doesn't really matter and it doesn't really go any deeper than that. I imagine some cities around the country will start naming streets after BLM and just like most MLK themed streets they'll tend to be in neighborhoods you wouldn't want to go in anyway.
Yeah, but this neighborhood is prime. Fancy hotels and within blocks of the White House.
We're not impressed. It's ugly and garish. Kind of disappointing in a city full of so much wonderful architecture and landscaping. Like spitting in the face of America. But then that's probably exactly the image she's going for.
Plus, let’s take out the fact the BLM is associated with antisemitism and that the mayor is willing to ignore that. Let’s just assume it’s a general concept, in that black lives matter. Knowing that the slogan has been controversial, since ALL lives matter and black lives are no more worthy than whites, it’s a slap in face. It’s a big middle finger, specifically to Trump but to any whites who don’t like the slogan.
As we all know, Mayor Bowser of Washington DC has degreed that a prominent section of 16th Street NW, as it approaches the White House, be renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza” - and new signs are already in place. Two questions:
1) Is Black Lives Matter Plaza support for the idea that black lives matter, just as all lives of course matter, or is it expressing support for the Black Lives Matter organization, which itself has ties to bigoted organizations (bigoted against groups other than blacks, of course). This is a critical difference.
2) Does the mayor have full authority to simply rename streets at will? Is there not a council to review options, perhaps have public input, and so forth, especially given the prominence of the location and the controversial nature of the Black Lives Matter organization with which the name is associated?
Here's an interesting article from the Southern Poverty Law Center about what BLM means. There's no evidence it is a hate group. https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016/...not-hate-group
"It’s the same dynamic that researchers at Harvard Business School described in a recent study: White people tend to see racism as a zero-sum game, meaning that gains for African Americans come at their expense. Black people see it differently. From their point of view, the rights pie can get bigger for everyone."
I'm guessing as far as re-naming the street, that the mayor has the authority to do that.
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