Name Change and priorities
There is apparently a bit of a scuffle involving the proposed name change of Atlanta’s airport:
A push to add the name of former Mayor Maynard Jackson to the title of the city’s airport pits the legacy of two popular mayors against each other and has reignited simmering tensions of new Atlanta vs. old, and black vs. white.
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This really shouldn’t be about what the white business establishment would allow,” state Rep. “Able” Mable Thomas, a former city council member, said at a public forum. “It’s really what the strength of the African-American community will allow. What will we stand for?”
While community leaders ponder this important issue in race relations, SayUncle estimates that in the US today approximately 20 black people will be murdered, 506 black people will be arrested for drug trafficking, and 22 black people will commit a murder. Glad our priorities are straight.
October 13th, 2003 at 1:48 pm
I addressed this once before. It doesn’t bother me whose name they put on it, they just need to remember what goes around comes around. In less than fifty years, it’s liable to be named the Pancho Villa International