Texas Judge Blocks Naming Street For Cesar Chavez Amid Fears Of The ‘Minority Becomin

[ChumpDumper]

Are you saying black doctors are bad?

I was telling you how he lives a good life, dumbass.

[SA210]

Looks like a go.

SAN ANTONIO -- The Cesar Chavez Legacy Foundation has declared victory in their fight to rename Durango Boulevard. The group held a press conference Thursday afternoon at the Cesar Chavez Service Center.

"We went through obstacles, barriers but we have the spirit of continuing to recognize the legacy of a great American role model Like Cesar Chavez," says Jaime P. Martinez, President of the Cesar Chavez Legacy Foundation.

This comes one day after State District Judge Renee F. McElhaney ruled in favor of the Chavez Legacy Foundation and lifted the temporary restraining order and permanent injunction the San Antonio Conservation Society filed in an effort to stop the renaming.

"It will give me a feeling of San Antonio has it right, uniting east to west, a bridge of unity," says Martinez.

The next step now is to put up the signs that will read Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Martinez believes the signs will be up in about three weeks and will cost the city of San Antonio about $100,000.

When asked why Durango Boulevard was chosen, Martinez said, "That's an education in itself, because children will be looking at the street, and they'll be learning generations to come about who was our hero Cesar Chavez."

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[Drachen]

Looks like a go.



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I have a question that I would like to put to the forum. How many times, as a child while you were in the back seat did you gaze out your car window and watch the passing street signs and think to yourself "I must make a mental note of these green and white signs so that the next time my mom takes me to the library I can learn the great history of the lives of "Kneupper", "Bridget", "North", or "Seventh"?

had to be thousands of times for myself.

[MannyIsGod]

I have a question that I would like to put to the forum. How many times, as a child while you were in the back seat did you gaze out your car window and watch the passing street signs and think to yourself "I must make a mental note of these green and white signs so that the next time my mom takes me to the library I can learn the great history of the lives of "Kneupper", "Bridget", "North", or "Seventh"?

had to be thousands of times for myself.

Honestly I always wondered who McDermott was and how the he had a highway named after him as teen. Then I thought it was cool that the names of certain streets were based on what towns they went to IE Bandera Rd, Fredricksburg, Austin Hwy.

[xrayzebra]

I have a question that I would like to put to the forum. How many times, as a child while you were in the back seat did you gaze out your car window and watch the passing street signs and think to yourself "I must make a mental note of these green and white signs so that the next time my mom takes me to the library I can learn the great history of the lives of "Kneupper", "Bridget", "North", or "Seventh"?

had to be thousands of times for myself.

It's all BS anyhow. The guy who went before city council to argue that
the street should be re-named was at some fast food joint a couple of
weeks ago protesting some lady getting fired.

I would love to come back a 100 years from now and see how many
Barry streets we have in the world.

[baseline bum]

Honestly I always wondered who McDermott was and how the he had a highway named after him as teen. Then I thought it was cool that the names of certain streets were based on what towns they went to IE Bandera Rd, Fredricksburg, Austin Hwy.

Was Cherry Street named after a really hot stripper/hooker?

[Winehole23]

(wayback machine. The version I heard growing up was you could get a hooker there. I suspect that was bs, but I never checked.)

[Drachen]

(wayback machine. The version I heard growing up was you could get a hooker there. I suspect that was bs, but I never checked.)

used to pressure wash exxons all over the city, the first time I drove on that street I was at a stop light and noticed I kept getting blinded. I was like WTF! My co-worker points on the corner across the street and there was a guy there reflecting his zippo to grab my attention and when I looked he motioned to three girls standing near him.

[Drachen]

I mean, he MIGHT not have been a pimp, he might have been some guy saying "wow, look at these girls, they look skanky don't they"

[Winehole23]

Cherry Street/commercial sex connection, check.

[Trainwreck2100]

The next step now is to put up the signs that will read Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Martinez believes the signs will be up in about three weeks and will cost the city of San Antonio about $100,000.

yeah cause we're ting money as it is.

[DarrinS]

[Drachen]

Please DarrinS

[ChumpDumper]

Cherry Street/commercial sex connection, check.

I really don't want to know what a rundberg is.

[Homeland Security]

I can't believe that butthurt Anglos turned this into a national story. Pathetic.

[Winehole23]

I really don't want to know what a rundberg is.

Don't ever take a wrong turn on Georgian.

[spursncowboys]

"the seven Hispanic members of San Antonio City Council all voted in favor of the name change, while the two white members, the one African-American and the one Asian-American member voted no."

brown vs white+black+yellow

So the hispanic council members are racist?

[spursncowboys]

You wanna name a street in the burbs after Ceaser Chavez?

if we are going by context then shouldnt it be a farm road? maybe one known for growing fruit?

[Wild Cobra]

Again, do you guys realize the costs involved in changing a street name? What about the expenses to businesses operating on a given street? All,the changes on web sites, business cards, mailers, etc.

You can take the politics completely out of it and just look at how ridiculous the costs are. Will the advocates pay for all these costs? If the advocate is a government agency, then I say no, the tax payer should not be paying these costs.

When it comes to the Postal Service, they are strapped for money already. Any ides how a whole street in redundant addresses affects them? They have to maintain both addresses for several years. I don't know how many years, but they have that much more work.

[SA210]

I'd rather them spend 100k or so tax dollars on honoring a civil rights leader and educating people of his name and who he was, than spending billions of taxpayers money by sending thousands to their death in an unnecessary war against a country with no WMD's.