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The residents, including the president of the Mayfair Home Owners Association were at a Nov. 1, 2017 City Council meeting to complain that the changing of the name of Lee Parkway was too much bother for them. The following is a video of them complaining.
Their complaints remind me of this Saturday Night Live comedy sketch. https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tech-talk-iphone-5/n27749
Another link is https://vimeo.com/51392953 Using the search terms Tech Talk and iphone5 will bring you to other links.
Another link is https://vimeo.com/51392953 Using the search terms Tech Talk and iphone5 will bring you to other links.
We had a protest in front of the Mayfair on Nov. 4, 2017. This is the Facebook Page for the event. https://www.facebook.com/events/489586781400802/
A Facebook name, Linda Parsel, got very irate over this protest. https://www.facebook.com/events/489586781400802/permalink/492715887754558/ I printed out the remarks and Parsel granted me permission to quote them in their entirety.
I had prepared remarks which were as follows:
Mayfair Protest speech
On Wednesday, Oct. 15th, (2017) no less than six residents of the Mayfair condominiums, including the president of the Home Owners Association came down to the Special Called city council meeting to complain of the proposed name change to Lee Parkway. We have the video online.
Basically they were aggrieved and felt picked upon that they would have the bother of having the name changed.
There are three important things to consider about the Lee Parkway name and the opposition to having the name changed.
1. One is that the street sign will always act as a secondary name for the park. Even if it was just a 20 foot alley way hidden away it would be known and signify the old name.
2. It tells us a lot how much Dallas elites value African American life. A Hitler highway would simply not be tolerated no matter what the cost or trouble it would be to eliminate it. Yet when it is proposed that a street named after Robert E. Lee, a man who fought for white supremacy and slavery, who commanded an army that captured free African Americans in Pennsylvania to enslave them, who tortured his slaves, when it is asked that this name be changed, a name which fundamentally devalued the humanity of African Americans, we get a flood of rationalizations and excuses.
We get a real insight to how the Dallas elites value African American life.
We should not be surprised when juries let the police murders of African Americans go free when African American life is valued so little. We can see now that the killer of Jordan Edwards will likely go free or with a minimal punishment.
3. Finally, we have insight into the elites who run Dallas. Behind all the fine sounding phrases, the pious statements, the resolutions on race we see the reality of racial attitudes in Dallas. We have insight by change in Dallas regarding race is so difficult. Ultimately people really don’t care.
Today’s protest is just the start of grassroots mobilization to de-Confederate Dallas. Look for the Facebook page for De-Confederate Dallas.
Saturday, December 2nd, at Noon I am going to walk the Confederate named streets of Junius, named after a Confederate soldier and Klansman, who worked to overthrow the multiracial democracy of Reconstruction, and Gaston, named after a Confederate Captain. I invite you to all come along or meet us along the way. I will walking Confederate and Klan named streets on the first Saturday of each month until they are renamed.
We are not going to stop until Dallas is de-Confederated and loses the Lost Cause.
A Facebook name, Linda Parsel, got very irate over this protest. https://www.facebook.com/events/489586781400802/permalink/492715887754558/ I printed out the remarks and Parsel granted me permission to quote them in their entirety.
I had prepared remarks which were as follows:
Mayfair Protest speech
On Wednesday, Oct. 15th, (2017) no less than six residents of the Mayfair condominiums, including the president of the Home Owners Association came down to the Special Called city council meeting to complain of the proposed name change to Lee Parkway. We have the video online.
Basically they were aggrieved and felt picked upon that they would have the bother of having the name changed.
There are three important things to consider about the Lee Parkway name and the opposition to having the name changed.
1. One is that the street sign will always act as a secondary name for the park. Even if it was just a 20 foot alley way hidden away it would be known and signify the old name.
2. It tells us a lot how much Dallas elites value African American life. A Hitler highway would simply not be tolerated no matter what the cost or trouble it would be to eliminate it. Yet when it is proposed that a street named after Robert E. Lee, a man who fought for white supremacy and slavery, who commanded an army that captured free African Americans in Pennsylvania to enslave them, who tortured his slaves, when it is asked that this name be changed, a name which fundamentally devalued the humanity of African Americans, we get a flood of rationalizations and excuses.
We get a real insight to how the Dallas elites value African American life.
We should not be surprised when juries let the police murders of African Americans go free when African American life is valued so little. We can see now that the killer of Jordan Edwards will likely go free or with a minimal punishment.
3. Finally, we have insight into the elites who run Dallas. Behind all the fine sounding phrases, the pious statements, the resolutions on race we see the reality of racial attitudes in Dallas. We have insight by change in Dallas regarding race is so difficult. Ultimately people really don’t care.
Today’s protest is just the start of grassroots mobilization to de-Confederate Dallas. Look for the Facebook page for De-Confederate Dallas.
Saturday, December 2nd, at Noon I am going to walk the Confederate named streets of Junius, named after a Confederate soldier and Klansman, who worked to overthrow the multiracial democracy of Reconstruction, and Gaston, named after a Confederate Captain. I invite you to all come along or meet us along the way. I will walking Confederate and Klan named streets on the first Saturday of each month until they are renamed.
We are not going to stop until Dallas is de-Confederated and loses the Lost Cause.
Signs at the Mayfair Nov. 4th Protest
Letter writing campaign to the Mayfair
A letter was sent to each condominium of the Mayfair asking that the resident reconsider their opposition to the renaming of Lee Parkway. The picture above has the addresses photo edited out. With each letter was a bibliography on slavery was included, and a references to a specific slave narrative or historical reference to their suffering. The reference was both in the letter and a photocopy of a page from a book of slave narratives.
All the narratives have been assigned to 3401 Lee Parkway as part of a large project were the suffering of the slaves will be mapped onto the addresses of all of Dallas' Confederate named streets.
A 142 letters were sent in all on 12/20/2017. Hopefully it will touch their conscious and they will reconsider.
The narratives or references selected were from "Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies," edited by John W. Blassingame, Louisiana University Press, 1977. This book can be ordered at https://lsupress.org/books/detail/slave-testimony/ and from "American Slavery As It Was: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses," edited by Theodore Dwight Weld, originally published by the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839, but has been republished multiple times since. I used an DocSouth edition published by the University of North Carolina Press, and the page numbers used in the letters refer to that edition. You can down load it for free at https://archive.org/. You can read it online at this link. https://archive.org/stream/americanslavery00conggoog#page/n6/mode/2up or download it in a format of your choice here. https://archive.org/details/americanslavery00conggoog
The letters follow after the bibliography.
All the narratives have been assigned to 3401 Lee Parkway as part of a large project were the suffering of the slaves will be mapped onto the addresses of all of Dallas' Confederate named streets.
A 142 letters were sent in all on 12/20/2017. Hopefully it will touch their conscious and they will reconsider.
The narratives or references selected were from "Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies," edited by John W. Blassingame, Louisiana University Press, 1977. This book can be ordered at https://lsupress.org/books/detail/slave-testimony/ and from "American Slavery As It Was: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses," edited by Theodore Dwight Weld, originally published by the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839, but has been republished multiple times since. I used an DocSouth edition published by the University of North Carolina Press, and the page numbers used in the letters refer to that edition. You can down load it for free at https://archive.org/. You can read it online at this link. https://archive.org/stream/americanslavery00conggoog#page/n6/mode/2up or download it in a format of your choice here. https://archive.org/details/americanslavery00conggoog
The letters follow after the bibliography.
This is the bibliography that was enclosed. Letters follow.
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The Letters.
The file numbers do not correspond to a specific residence. All the letters are available for download. I will put a few in Scribed boxes after this listing.
To see the video for the Saturday Night Live comedy skit, "Tech Talk" about the iphone5 go to this link.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tech-talk-iphone-5/n27749?snl=1
For the background on the American Anti-Slavery Societies mailing in 1835 is this web page.
http://postalmuseumblog.si.edu/2010/07/americas-first-direct-mail-campaign.html
The file numbers do not correspond to a specific residence. All the letters are available for download. I will put a few in Scribed boxes after this listing.
To see the video for the Saturday Night Live comedy skit, "Tech Talk" about the iphone5 go to this link.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tech-talk-iphone-5/n27749?snl=1
For the background on the American Anti-Slavery Societies mailing in 1835 is this web page.
http://postalmuseumblog.si.edu/2010/07/americas-first-direct-mail-campaign.html
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