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JollyAd3963 t1_ja1qemr wrote

While I'm not a Elijah Muhammad fan, I will say many of the streets in NYC are named after slave owners and people who have done horrific things to black people but no one says anything about that.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_ja2yvrw wrote

>but no one says anything about that.

There has been ongoing discourse for years in not just NYC but all over the country regarding removing and renaming anything deemed remotely 'problematic'.

The Museum of Nature History removed a statue of Teddy Roosevelt (that had been there for 80 years) because activists complained it was "racist", yet I have not heard any of them expressing even a modicum of pushback to a street named after a notoriously racist, abusive, assassination plotting bigot.

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