New York City parks to be
renamed after Black Americans
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/20/2020 12:27:37 PM
New York City parks in each borough will be renamed to honor Black Americans. The announcement was made Friday by Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver on Friday in honor of Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. The holiday took on added meaning this year amid ongoing protests calling for racial equality, and in that spirit, Silver said it is time to recognize and correct the inequities laid to bare in the course of creating the city parks system.(Snip) Nineteen benches along the path have been repainted in the red, black and green colors of the globally recognized Pan-African Flag.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bgarrett 6/20/2020 12:33:15 PM (No. 450986)
Wade-a-minit! If you cant cant name your syrup after a black woman (or rice after a black man) why is it ok to name a park after a black person?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 6/20/2020 12:35:26 PM (No. 450988)
It's kind of ironic that Juneteenth is being made into such a big deal in places like New York where the 14th amendment made slavery illegal several years later. The only that really happened that day is the boat pulled int Galveston. Places closer to the front lines knew about it long before anyway,.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Historybuff 6/20/2020 12:43:07 PM (No. 450994)
Two can play this game. Let’s name one after Eric Garner who died from an order that came right from de Blasio’s desk. The mayor sent the police after Garner for literally pennies worth of tax on cigarettes he was selling by the piece.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/20/2020 12:59:32 PM (No. 451008)
And I will bet none of them will be named after Pierre Toussaint. A former slave from Haiti who became a wealthy man and a philanthropist. He is buried in the crypt at St. Patrick's Cathedral and will I hope be named a saint. I've long revered him,
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
The Remnants 6/20/2020 1:05:46 PM (No. 451013)
Are they renaming Central Park?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Catfur27 6/20/2020 1:10:29 PM (No. 451016)
Taking things to a logical end....WHY don't we rename prisons....and jails...and abortion mills after black people ??
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snakeoil 6/20/2020 1:17:08 PM (No. 451021)
Hope they name one for Noble Johnson, a black African American actor. (I am a faded white African American with a red neck. I was born here which makes me American. Anthropologists say that 350k years ago my ancestors were in Africa. So I am an African American.) Problem might be Noble Johnson appeared in at least one movie in White Face, The Most Dangerous Game. He was natural as the native chief in King Kong. (Oh, wait. You can't use "chief" anymore.) NYC needs to move Grant's Tomb to Ohio where he was born before the crazies get to it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/20/2020 1:17:17 PM (No. 451022)
I wonder if blacks recognize these gestures for what they are - cheap virtue signaling that means nothing. I suspect decent minorities would rather have a safe neighborhood than a park named for a black person. They'll get the park they don't care about and thanks to the Ferguson effect will end up with a more dangerous neighborhood.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
privateer 6/20/2020 1:31:46 PM (No. 451033)
Noble Johnson also portrayed the Zombie in "Ghostbreakers" with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. A non-speaking role...but he was pretty scary.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/20/2020 1:34:49 PM (No. 451038)
I find it somewhat entertaining that after all these years nobody north of Galveston had ever heard of June Teenth until now. Our snowflake "Investigative Reporters" came up with a scoop. LMAO
It's basically spring break for the welfare folks. They don't even know what Lincoln was up to that day.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 6/20/2020 1:47:21 PM (No. 451047)
Why just a park. The whole city can be renamed Hussein-Obamaville.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
raspberry 6/20/2020 1:50:58 PM (No. 451049)
Does this mean that female white weed buyers won't get stabbed to death by black teens in city parks honoring blacks?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/20/2020 1:53:44 PM (No. 451053)
Maybe Central Park can be named after the attackers of the jogger. I am being sarcastic but not entirely.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/20/2020 1:54:30 PM (No. 451055)
May I suggest they start with blacks who have been killed by other blacks. Chicago offers up dozens of black bodies every month. Or they can go with la'Quida de'lashawn, mother of 6 children by 4 different men, BLM member, rioter and looter.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 6/20/2020 1:58:26 PM (No. 451059)
#2, it was the 13th amendment that outlawed slavery in the U.S. was ratified on Dec. 6,1865. Biden's state of Delaware, was one of the few states where slavery was still legal until then. i.e. Biden's state was one of the last slave states.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/20/2020 2:09:31 PM (No. 451063)
I don’t expect to be frolicking in Clarence Thomas Park any time soon. Doubt we’ll ever see Herman Cain Park, either.
Mumia Abu Jamal Park? Now there’s a park where only good things happen! OJ Simpson Field? Oh yeah, the real killers would never be seen there.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/20/2020 2:13:54 PM (No. 451065)
Two famous black people were fired from their jobs Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben now renaming has begun in NYC. What tha heck is that about? Cut to the chase and rename the entire city George Floyd City and be done with it. Wall Street could become Kunta Kinta Street. What's with the Juneteenth which I never heard of but know the history of it but didn't know it was so important to blacks except for being spring break for blacks in Galveston, Texas. June 19th, 1865 Texans kicked out blacks from Texas by freeing them and shipped them out of Galveston. The Texans were smart by putting them on a boat to sail away and avoided future trouble they would be like they are doing now. Smart Texans always looking ahead.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 6/20/2020 2:16:19 PM (No. 451069)
Since 73% of blacks are born out-of-wedlock
Bastard Park!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/20/2020 2:25:51 PM (No. 451077)
Will the racial equality they are so ardent about having include the ending of Affirmative Action, so everything is equal, or will they still accept that AA is the governments way of saying they aren't good enough to compete?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Krause 6/20/2020 2:26:44 PM (No. 451081)
This is really getting ridiculous. Who can be the biggest bleeding heart. Emotional grandstanding decisions by weak lousy leaders.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/20/2020 2:30:47 PM (No. 451085)
Who gave them that authority? A vote of the people? Wasn't a single black person who made NYC what it is today. Sorry, just statement of fact.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
nina584 6/20/2020 2:42:29 PM (No. 451096)
I know so many people leaving N.Y. I will never visit again. Soon it will a desert zone full of people that don’t pay taxes.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/20/2020 2:45:21 PM (No. 451099)
Re #17. One of my ancestors was one of Georgia's largest slave owners. I was once asked if I thought I should apologize for being a descendent of his. I said not for the slavery since I wasn't around then but would like to apologize for his involvement in bringing them in from Africa. Think about it...we would only need half the prisons, half the cops and half the justice system we now have in place if all those Africans had been left in Africa not to mention saving trillions on welfare and having much safer cities.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/20/2020 2:46:15 PM (No. 451101)
#7, I've seen The Most Dangerous Game and remember Noble Johnson in it. Did you know it was shot at the same time as King Kong? Many of the same actors (including Fay Wray) were in it. Good movie.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 6/20/2020 3:02:50 PM (No. 451120)
Actually, I thought Juneteenth referred to a massacre of some kind, with a lot of blacks being killed.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
marbles 6/20/2020 3:22:55 PM (No. 451145)
Feeding the beast never works out well.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 6/20/2020 3:40:38 PM (No. 451156)
Why piddle around? Rename the town New Black City, and be done with it.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/20/2020 4:16:42 PM (No. 451184)
Italians, Jews, Irish, Polish, and Puerto Ricans need not apply.
Now that's inclusive!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 6/20/2020 4:24:28 PM (No. 451199)
How's South Africa doing these days? How 'bout Haiti? Or Liberia?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/20/2020 4:49:02 PM (No. 451224)
If they were sane, they’d name the parks after Ben Carson, Clarence Thomas and the like. Instead it will probably be Tupac Park, Snoop Dog Park, Saint Trayvon Park, Big Mike Park and Generic Black Felon Park.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/20/2020 5:01:20 PM (No. 451242)
NO 25 IT MOST CERTAINLY DOES NOT.
You have Google, or maybe DuckDuckGo ?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 6/20/2020 5:15:24 PM (No. 451260)
An unabashedly racist proposal!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/20/2020 5:30:52 PM (No. 451273)
I DEMAND that they rename NEW YORK!
New York, the City and the State, were named in honor of the Duke of York, who held the exclusive English license to Import and Sell Slaves into the American colonies. In other words, NEW YORK IS NAMED AFTER THE BIGGEST SLAVE TRADER OF THEM ALL!
How about it, New Yawk?
What's YOUR New Name?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
BooneBoy 6/20/2020 5:48:05 PM (No. 451299)
When are the BLM organization going after the Spanish language? the color black in Spanish is Negro.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
kono 6/20/2020 7:16:34 PM (No. 451370)
Good grief; Juneteenth commemorates the official declaration in the last state of the end of slavery. It had been outlawed YEARS earlier. Historical revisionism does not change that.
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Every day we get closer to South Africa. Why is it that no one ever leaves this gawd awful country?
I like it much better when it was called the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Yeah, we know. Obama #1, Obama #2, Obama #3......
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Homeless-Americans can doze off their drunks comfortably on benches adorned with colors of the bLACK national flag in Juneteenth Grove. Decide to name things after bLACK people, then search for people of merit with that skin tone; startlingly racist pandering, but they love it.