Councilman wants to change Durango Boulevard to Chavez Boulevard
No real point in a quote. Once again, we've got a City Councilman who has determined that there is nothing pressing going on in this city, and so he should put his efforts toward renaming a street for a non-Texan.
Why in the living hell are we going through this again? Seriously. We don't have the money for this shit. Changing Durango's name wouldn't just mean the city would have to replace signage, it would force every single business along the way to change if not their signage then their letterhead, their advertising, etc.
And for no good reason. Who the hell is Cesar Chavez to San Antonio? Y'all can probably guess my opinion of honoring a union leader to begin with, but if we must go that route, where is the push to name a street after Emma Tenayuca? Yeah, Chavez is the dude everyone talks about, but Tenayuca was doing it long before he was, and she was a San Antonian. So if we have to name a street for a Marxist, how about doing it for a local Marxist? (And I'm not just saying that 'cause she went to my alma mater.) I have this near-unbearable urge to see if I can turn the Leftists against one another by suggesting she's being passed over because of sexism.
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That's something that gets my goat too, bunch of "activists" wanting to name something after Chavez, when there's no lack of famous native Tejanos, all the way back to the Revolution, but noooo, can't name anything after them, it might make the munchkins have a bit of Texas Pride, and that's a bad thing to the International Communist crowd.
I have this near-unbearable urge to see if I can turn the Leftists against one another by suggesting she's being passed over because of sexism.
Nah. That won't bother 'em.
Who pays to upgrade my Garmin when they make goofy changes like this?
Amen! But, boy, how times have changed.
Back in the day, Chavez, Walter Mondale, Ralph Abernathy and Ted Kennedy were bitter foes of illegal migration and abortion.
The UFW under the command of Cesar's brother actually patrolled the Arizona-Mexico border back then to keep out illegal migrants sometimes, roughing them up when they were encountered.
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