Activists: Rename Hollywood streets to honor abolitionists (FL)
BY JESS SWANSON
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2015
... In July, anonymous members of a group calling itself BlackOutWhiteSupremacy took credit for spray-painting over the names on Lee, Forrest, and Hood streets. Hollywood Police then announced that they are looking to crack down on the group responsible for the vandalism. But no arrests were made.
On Wednesday evening, activists from the Green Party and Dream Defenders (who did not take credit for the street sign vandalism) addressed City of Hollywood commissioners and demanded the removal of Confederate street names and suggested the streets be renamed Truth, Tubman, and Douglass streets ...
Four members of the Broward Green Party, two community activists, one Dream Defender, and a mother and her child from the neighborhood came to the commission meeting. Everyone took turns giving comments, but the most memorable was when African-American activist Valsin St. James took to the podium and quoted William Thompson, designer of the Confederate flag.
"As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race," St. James said, catching the attention of nearly every person in the room ...
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