The vote was 33-15, with “no” votes coming from 12 white and three Latino aldermen. The ordinance calls for the renaming to happen immediately, but a city spokesman did not respond to questions about how long it will take to change the signs.
No it won’t. The city of chicago no longer belongs to your intersectional identity.
It’s just too bad they renamed it after a colonizer capitalist who occupied indigenous lands and nearly extincted every fur bearing creature in the upper midwest. Beavers almost went extinct because of this ‘fur trader’. This man was a monster by today’s standards. Why do we celebrate this?
And the crime and mayhem continues! No sane reason to go to Chicago anymore!
“Honey, take Halsted downtown. DuSable is backed up again due to police activity. Jean Baptiste is covered in bullet casings.”
It will always be Lake Shore Drive. Always.
No it won’t. The city of chicago no longer belongs to your intersectional identity.
It’s just too bad they renamed it after a colonizer capitalist who occupied indigenous lands and nearly extincted every fur bearing creature in the upper midwest. Beavers almost went extinct because of this ‘fur trader’. This man was a monster by today’s standards. Why do we celebrate this?
He was black so cannot do wrong. You are a racist, that’s your answer