Posted on 06/17/2007 7:44:29 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
They were told they couldn't do it - but they did it anyway.
Supporters of the late black activist Sonny Carson put up a sign renaming a Brooklyn street for him Saturday, even though the request was turned down by the City Council.
The unofficial renaming took place Saturday in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where Carson's name was put up over the sign marking Gates Avenue.
The City Council voted against renaming the street three weeks ago, after some members refused to honor a man they believed was anti-Jewish, anti-white and anti-Asian.
But Carson supporters say they won't let the city take the new sign down.
"Self-determination is a struggle, just like our freedom struggle," said activist Omowale Clay. "This has awakened in our people, who are being moved on - not only in New York and Chicago but certainly in New Orleans - that we have to stand up or we'll be wiped out. They're taking black people off the agenda, and we can't let that happen."
This is the second effort by Carson supporters to honor him.
On Memorial Day, supporters put up a sign unofficially renaming Brooklyn's Linden Park after Carson.
“Omowale Clay” - I think I’ve got the last name figured out, but can anybody help with the pronunciation of the first? BTW, isn’t Omowale like a chip dip, only made with something other than avocados?
Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 – also: Malcolm Little, Detroit Red, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, and Omowale) was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam, and a founder of both the Muslim Mosque, Inc., and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He was assassinated in February 1965 on the first day of National Brotherhood Week. ...
How about a little self determination for the first time in 50 years? How about standing up on your own instead of waiting for the government to do it for you?
Quit blaming "the man" or "them", and blame yourself for your own predicamnet.
Pretty good for a people who are basically rednecks with melanin.
sonny carson; african-american role model.
laws don’t apply to us....we be aa!!!
affirmative action - african americans!!
Just name me a city where a white man can safely walk down Martin Luther King street at 10 pm at night.
You are either African or American. Your choice.
Hope they don’t need an ambulance.
new yorkers should really wake up and ask the good follkk over at city council a few pertinent questions—mainly how the hecK do they justify their salary,a 50million dollar annual budget....and just what exactly do THEY do .
and to the good folkk in bed/sty—you want barron ? pay for him.you want to rename public places at your whim ? you pay to maintain them.
Black racism is tolerated...even celebrated.
“But Carson supporters say they won’t let the city take the new sign down.”
Just rename the street that intersects it “David Duke Rd.”
It simply astonishes me that the liberals have latched on the least alien population segment to pick as their "utlimate oppressed others."
Have you ever noticed that the very things liberals love most about poor Blacks is what they hate most about poor whites? You know, the hillbilly religious services (which liberals tell themselves are "African"), the superstitions, the "soul food" (ie, poke sallet), the speech based on obsolete British dialects, etc.?
Liberalism truly is a mental disorder.
They’ve got to be kidding. I hope the DOT takes that down by the time this is posted.
The City Council, incredibly liberal & socialist as they are, wanted no part of this.
Barron is loathsome to an extent that’s almost beyond belief. I wonder if his aide will in fact receive any punishment for her remarks about the African-American councilman who wouldn’t vote for this nonsense...which led her to state that if he had any ambitions about ever becoming a Borough President, that this would never happen, even if it took an assassination to prevent such an occurrence.
Barron refused to criticize her for this remark. I trust anyone reading this knows about some of his lovely history.
What a proud legacy.
Conveniently leaving out the Spanish?
Fine, then stop delivering welfare checks addressed to the upstanding residents of this street. "Sorry that address is not in our database..."
Not all were lower working class, a good many were and are farmers and other professionals working in sun.
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