Posted on 06/15/2020 7:53:54 AM PDT by knighthawk
Penny Lane, the road in Liverpool that gained worldwide recognition after The Beatles wrote a song about it, is now in danger of being renamed if it can be proven that its title is linked to a slave trader, a local politician says.
Steve Rotherham, the mayor of the Liverpool city region, issued the warning to Sky News on Monday as a debate has emerged over the origins of the name Penny Lane.
One of the roads signs was defaced on Friday with the word RACIST spray-painted next to it in an apparent reference to James Penny, a Liverpool-based slave trader whom the BBC says defended the practice during a parliamentary inquiry in the late 1700s.
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I got it! Penny Hardaway!!!!
How ‘bout the good old,”Yellow Rose of Texas”?
All Rhodes Scholars should denounce their scholarships, and beg forgiveness.
Good band aid.
Jesus has been seen, many times, at our Southern borders.
How about the Jesus border?
Just imagine the street was named after a US coin.
Renamed’ if alleged slavery link proven, official says.
Wonder who nobody ever remembers the names of black slave owners and traders very strange.
Read Errol Flynns autobiography - he says that he was a slave trader FOR THE BRITISH EMPIRE - in the 1920s!!!
...But the USA, who fought a war and abolished slavery in the 1860s STILL is the problem the world is focusing on...
I thought Paul was the walrus.
Based on this accusation, the Beatles music library must be destroyed.
/Mobthink
When are they going to find the Democrat Party’s link to slavery? It’s a lot more recent then the 1700s.
Ban the Beatles song.
That’s the rule these days, right?
It isn’t something they can simply rename.
>>I thought Paul was the walrus.
John Lennon: “I was the walrus! Paul wasn’t the walrus! I was just saying that to be nice! I WAS ACTUALLY THE WALRUS!!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9VrWJj80Sc
< /NationalLampoon >
Is it? Thanks, I’ll give ut a try....
“Penny Lane, made famous by The Beatles, ‘in danger of being renamed’ if alleged slavery link proven, official says”
Don’t forget the sexist “for a fish and finger pie” /s
“All Rhodes Scholars...”
You mean like William Jefferson Clinton? And shouldn’t he change his middle name too?
A year after Magical Mystery Tour on the White Album on Glass Onion, the walrus was Paul. The morph probably had to do with ingestion of LSD
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