Texas Judge Blocks Naming Street For Cesar Chavez Amid Fears Of The ‘Minority Becoming A Majority’

[jefferson_dem]

Texas Judge Blocks Naming Street For Cesar Chavez Amid Fears Of The ‘Minority Becoming A Majority’

Yesterday a Texas judge blocked the city of San Antonio from renaming a street after Cesar Chavez, the late labor activist who fought for higher wages and better working conditions for migrant farm workers. The restraining order came just days after the City Council voted to rename Durango Street, one of San Antonio’s main thoroughfares. Chavez was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor, for his work on civil rights and is a hero to many in the city, which is 61 percent Hispanic. Yet a state district judge sided with groups that protest that naming the street after Chavez somehow interferes with “maintain the integrity of our history.”

“It is very important that we protect the integrity of our history, and that includes objecting to changing street names,” said Bill Oliver, who represents the San Antonio Conservation Society, which sued to oppose the name change.

But Jaime Martinez, a longtime San Antonio labor leader and a former associate of Chavez, who died in 1993, disagreed.

“We’ve been waiting for fifteen years to get the renaming of a street, a major street, for Cesar Chavez,” Martinez said. “There are over 200 streets in the last 10 years that had their names changed, and there was no problem.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/24/texas-cesar-chavez-street/

[chrisa]

1. When he says "our" he means white people.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. Yep. That judge's level of objectivity is impressive.

If I were a lawyer that had an ethnic client that was ruled unfavorably by this judge, I would demand a review of the case.

[TxVietVet]

2. One has to remember,

conservanazis are racists. They want to name everything after that brain-dead idiot ronnie raygun, yet is gets them screaming mad to name a street after a civil rights and labor union leader. Those two things that the conservanazis hate plus Hispanics that are not cheap illegal alien labor.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. Get over it, jerk. Over the next 10-years Hispanics will be the majority in Texas

Not naming a street after Cesar Chavez isn't going to stop that.

[TheKentuckian]

4. Racist shitbag, few names are more worth honoring than Chavez.

[Historic NY]

5. How small & crass of them...when 58% of their residents are Latino.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Because 'Durango' and 'San Antonio' are so English

It's a bit late for them to want to have a monoculture.

[WolverineDG]

7. It's a TRO that was granted, FFS, not a final order

:eyes:

they're a long ways away from a final hearing on the matter. Dumbshits filed a lawsuit, asking for temporary restraining order, which judges sign like clockwork. Doesn't mean that in the end the name of the street can't be changed.

the backlash locally is going to be big.

local news story with loads more information than the "zOMG OUTRAGE" link:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/City-questioned-over-street-naming-method-1391843.php

dg

[KittyWampus]

14. Thanks for the perspective. Still, it's galling.

[WolverineDG]

19. Yeah, no kidding

It's really standard operating procedure--keep everything as is until a full hearing can be held.

The comments attributed to the judge are in fact, those of the asshat who filed the suit.

dg

[Ian David]

8. So, the judge is saying, "No, because I am a racist." n/t

[lpbk2713]

9. If that isn't an admission of bigotry I don't know what is.

Cesar Chavez is a true hero in many people's minds and rightfully so.
Some rednecks don't want to accept the fact that another ethnicity
can be perceived this way.

[kentauros]

15. What's even worse

is that they are protesting the renaming of a Spanish street name to another Spanish name, while living in a Spanish-named city and Spanish-named state! :crazy:

[nosmokes]

10. "Texas Judge" pretty much says it all...

[kentauros]

16. Why?

Care to elaborate?

[NYC Liberal]

20. All Texans are racist, backwards right-wingers.

I think that's it. :eyes:

Actually, there are LOTS of great liberals in Texas -- and I know a few of them.

[kentauros]

21. I know you're being facetious,

even if the one I asked mostly like believes exactly what you jokingly posted.

And here's another liberal in Texas. Can't say I'm a "Great Liberal" though, certainly not on the order as Moyers and Richards ;)

[w8liftinglady]

11. Pos- dallas tiene un calle que se llama "Caesar Chavez". Somos mejores!

We DO have a street named "Caesar Chavez" in dallas. I drive out on it every work day.
san Antonio has a large hispanic population. I don't get it.

[MindPilot]

12. Duncan Hunter's panties are in a wad over the Navy naming a ship

after Cesar Chavez. Never mind that he was born in Yuma AZ, served in the US Navy and worked tirelessly to improve life for workers everywhere, he's got a MEXICAN name!!

[KittyWampus]

13. If it's true over 200 other streets had names changed- it's so obviously

racist.

[struggle4progress]

18. Fuggit. Toss them a bone. Rename the street "Cesar Chavez" but put up some extra signs

along the boundary of the proposed Prospect Hill Historic District running from Durango and Brazos to Durango and Zarzamora: there you still call the street "Cesar Chavez" but you have secondary signs that proclaim "Historic Durango Street"

Or every five blocks throughout the heart of the city the sign says

Cesar Chavez Blvd
(Historic Durango St)

and the other four out of five just say "Cesar Chavez Blvd"

[MrScorpio]

22. Cesar Chavez was born, had lived as and died AN AMERICAN!

What the fuck is up with these people?