Changing the name of a stree

[Salty]

The Town of Clay in Central NY has voted to change the name of one of its street.

Planation Blvd appears to have a racial overtone.

Good decision - or much ado about nothing

 

[Mike B]

Good decision - or much ado about nothing

From the article: “Street names are more than just labels,” Hernandez said. “They shape how people
experience and feel about where they live.”

Wow....talk about "woke" culture. Somebody needs to get a life.

Some 60 years back I lived on a street named "Teranimar". The person who owned all the land the
neighborhood was built on had four sons...Terry, Randy, Nicky and Marty. Street names come from
all kinds of things....a "Plantation" being one of them.

Yeesh...

 

[Deacon]

Some 60 years back I lived on a street named "Teranimar". The person who owned all the land the
neighborhood was built on had four sons...Terry, Randy, Nicky and Marty. Street names come from
all kinds of things....a "Plantation" being one of them.

I once visited Jawacdah Farm (a cottage farm in Indiana owned by a manufacturer of hospital beds).
The name was coined by using the initials of her husband and sons.
It sounded "Indian" so the theme of the decoration uses Indian symbols.

Should all insulting street names be banned?
How about "Broad Street"? It appears to insult both women and fat people.

I guess all color names should be banned too, red, yellow, white, black...

Ban any war related references too.

Shouldn't be too long before we are driving down "Street Road"... oh.. it's already here!

Rob

 

[Scarlett O.]

The Town of Clay in Central NY has voted to change the name of one of its street.

Planation Blvd appears to have a racial overtone.

Good decision - or much ado about nothing

MUCH ado about nothing. And it just depends on how a person is educated about words, history, and more.

There are more plantations around the world today than one is aware of. A plantation is defined as a "large farm with the purpose of growing cash crops".

Yes, there was a time when slaves were used on plantations and that was immoral - period. But if people TODAY want sugar, tea, coffee, blue jeans [cotton], wood, pineapples and a whole lot more - people need to get over those large tracts of land sometimes even today being called a plantation - and yes a very large tract of land used to grow trees for wood purposes is called a plantation.

What are those people going to do? Never build a house? Never wear clothes?

Frankly, I don't care what they call that street.

 

[Salty]

This is a bit off OP (but close enough for govt work)

The Town in NY that was part of the CSA!

 

[Rob_BW]

I hate that Longstreet Road on Fort Bragg was renamed to Long Street.

James Longstreet's conduct following the Civil War should have been enough to consider him rehabilitated (to use the Soviet terminology).

 

[Foxmeister]

I have to say it's much ado about nothing. If you try to take away everything that offends another, what do you have left? Nothing.

 

[Mike B]

Strangest road name I've ever seen is an exit off of I-15 near Baker, Calif. It's in the
middle of nowhere, and basically goes nowhere.

The road is named "Zzyzx"...pronounced as Ziz-zix.

No idea how it got that name, but I would have to guess that alcohol was involved.

 

[Salty]

The road is named "Zzyzx"...pronounced as Ziz-zix.

It is also the name of a community!