Wyatt Gordon, Josh Mallow, and Adam Lockett have put together a map / list of streets in Richmond that are possibly named after Confederates, including Carrington Street, Venable Street, Littlepage Street, Bryan Street, Ford Avenue, Rogers Street, among others.
From Gordon: “Together [we] identified 240 streets named after Confederates in #RVA. That’s 143 miles of racist roadways that need to change. If we switch 10% a year, we’ll be done in a decade”
We’ve got it that Mosby Street was named after a developer, not the Civil War guy. Y’all know anything else about the others?
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A lot of the streets on this map are not named for Confederates. A lot of them existed long before the Civil War. I need to review my maps and I will get back to whomever I need.
The statues are racist, the buildings are racist, the streets are racist, the river is racist, the sewer system is racist, a bird that flew over my house the other day was racist!
Are you ok there? You seem a bit triggered. We suggest you check out the book “White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for White People to talk about racism” by Robin DiAngelo.
Triggered? Nope. My post was making fun of how ridiculous this article was.
But let’s get this straight. For the past 2.5 weeks I have watched my city get burned, looted and vandalized on a nightly basis. All the while these actions have been essentially excused in the “fight against white supremacy” with “peaceful protests” and you suggest I read a white guilt book. Yeah, I’ll get right on that.
Right, and POC and black folks have been oppressed for years, brutally sometimes. And you continuously undermine all of these talking points with mockery and refusing to look at the harm that the symbolism of these Confederate symbols create in our society. Your covert aggression is palpable.
A quick google search shows Carrington is a family that fought in revoluntionary war alongside George Washington and was present at the ‘Give me Liberty or Give me Death’ speech.
I think we need to take step back before defining streets as ‘Confederate’ streets. Virginia was in the confederacy. George Washington had slaves. This is horrible that he did. But where do we draw the line? More research is needed before saying the street is a Confederate street. I’m sure there are a lot on this list that need to be removed. More research needed before ultimatum. We are working to update Carrington street (three years and counting). There are opportunities for a statue(s) on this street.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Carrington
About the confederate names of streets: they would have to be there before the Civil War in order for them to have been the names of people that owned slaves I’ve counted 41 just off the top of my head. I know from my research, my extensive African-American genealogy research, and slave trail research names that actually owned slaves or dealt in slaves or were slave traders. Now I’m going to go down the list and try to remember others and make a master list of all the places where slave lived and worked. Spots in Richmond, including houses like the Adam Craig house, the John Marshall house, Ampthill. All of these need to be destroyed because they were places were slaves worked. Bellevue neighborhood needs to be razed to the ground because it was an actual Smith plantation – not to mention Westbrook and Bryan Park because its named for the Bryan family and before that it was owned by the Young family whose slaves were involved in the Gabriel Revolt. I I hope that I can help expunge all the Confederates from memory. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of.
Don’t get me started on renaming Ginter Park School!
Are we also going to change the name of Washington DC, just so that the “woke brigade” doesn’t go into full tantrum mode? GET A LIFE!!
Oppressed? Hilarious!
This has to be one of the stupidest things I have read in a while (realizing it is almost three years old.) Thank goodness those who took this project on after John Murden are no longer in charge. Not sure who is since it seems to be pretty inactive but glad they moved on.
And by project, I meant CHPN. It hasn’t been the same since John gave it up.