Burke, Virginia, is named after an enslaver. A journalist wants to change that

[Cellblock2429]

Burke, Virginia, is named after an enslaver. A journalist wants to change that

David Martosko discovered Silas Burke enslaved a six-year-old named Fenton and suggests name change to honor him instead

www.theguardian.com

A former reporter has launched a campaign to rename his Virginia hometown, Burke, to stop the commemoration of an enslaver and instead honor a child he enslaved, a six-year-old boy named Fenton.


This seems to be a noble aim. We should not be celebrating the lives of awful people. At the very least the residents should have a vote to decide what they want.
Many countries have shaken off a dark past. Bombay is now Mumbai and Delhi is now Channai. Maybe Burke would be better as Fenton ? Or any other non slavery name.

/----/ I call on Canada to rename itself Git’r Done. Cultural appropriation is the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity. Some French guy, Jacques Cartier, used his White Privilege and appropriated an Iroquoian word kanata, in 1535 to describe the land around the St Lawrence River. How very White of him.
Do it now.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I am wondering why so many people oppose this proposal. Why is the slaver Burke so worthy of recognition ?
Can you not empathise with people who find this act of celebration offensive and even distressing ?
You wouldnt support the naming of a town after a rapist or a paedo. That is what these people were.
People will assume that you are racist trash if you persist in this perversity.

 

[surada]

How about America itself, named after Amerigo Vespucci a slave owner.......

The poutrage rolls on.......

Amerigo Vespucci

Today, meet our national namesake. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. Our country's named after the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci instead of the Italian...

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Our country's named after the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci instead of the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus. But why? Who was Amerigo Vespucci, and what did he do?

He was an Italian merchant, born in 1454 in Florence and employed by the Medicis. They sent him to look after their ship-outfitting business, which operated out of Seville, about the time Columbus made his first voyage. In fact, the business had a part in outfitting Columbus's third voyage.

 

[Curried Goats]

Obviously you are, you fucking clown...lol

On the contrary I'm happy their descendants are so soft as to let themselves be replaced, non violently, in the country their ancestors fought so hard to secure.

 

[surada]

The freaking British monarchy were enslavers. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the Union Jack. Now they want to pick on some Virginia nobody named Burke? It beats talking about real issues like the rape and murder of American women by illegal aliens.

Have you forgotten about the Dutch and Portuguese slave ships?

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

On the contrary I'm happy their descendants are so soft as to let themselves be replaced, non violently, in the country their ancestors fought so hard to secure.

Replaced? By who?...lol

 

[2aguy]

I am wondering why so many people oppose this proposal. Why is the slaver Burke so worthy of recognition ?
Can you not empathise with people who find this act of celebration offensive and even distressing ?
You wouldnt support the naming of a town after a rapist or a paedo. That is what these people were.
People will assume that you are racist trash if you persist in this perversity.

Those same people vote for the democrat party...the political party that owned the slaves, took the country to a civil war to keep blacks a slaves, enacted jim crow, the klan...

So sell your BS about their feelings to biden voters....

The statue is simply virtue signaling and trying to hide the racismmof the democrat party

 

[Captain Caveman]

What about Washington, DC? And Washington state, for that matter?

You people are so fucking dumb.

The reason why Tommy is dumb, it's because Burke in British slang is, "A fool". Hence why Tommy is a Burke.

There are Burke's everywhere thinking that changing words, names, and statues because of slave history is heroic.

 

[Curried Goats]

Those same people vote for the democrat party...the political party that owned the slaves, took the country to a civil war to keep blacks a slaves, enacted jim crow, the klan...

So sell your BS about their feelings to biden voters....

The statue is simply virtue signaling and trying to hide the racismmof the democrat party

Parties don't operate autonomously, Dumb Dumb. They are operated by people and the Democratic Confederates who did those things, people like Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest were shit people from a shit culture. That culture is continued by organizations like the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy who are also shit people. The Democratic party today, especially the southern contigent, is represented largely by black voters. The southern whites, especially those that defend the legacy of Confederate are largely Republican, including the President for the Daughters of the Confederacy. Your stupid argument and strategy isn't injuring the Democratic party, which has won the popular vote since 2004, it's destroying the legacy of the Confederates which is fine by me. Help us tear down part of your deplorable fucking culture and help us do it because you rather play pretend. Help us destroy your own shit because you rather play pretend than be a strong racist. That is just more evidence of how weak your people have become. Weak enough to get got.

 

[2aguy]

Parties don't operate autonomously, Dumb Dumb. They are operated by people and the Democratic Confederates who did those things, people like Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest were shit people from a shit culture. That culture is continued by organizations like the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy who are also shit people. The Democratic party today, especially the southern contigent, is represented largely by black voters. The southern whites, especially those that defend the legacy of Confederate are largely Republican, including the President for the Daughters of the Confederacy. Your stupid argument and strategy isn't injuring the Democratic party, which has won the popular vote since 2004, it's destroying the legacy of the Confederates which is fine by me. Help us tear down part of your deplorable fucking culture and help us do it because you rather play pretend. Help us destroy your own shit because you rather play pretend than be a strong racist. That is just more evidence of how weak your people have become. Weak enough to get got.

The democrat party today is still racist to it's core.....they simply allowed racists of all skin colors to join the party and become part of the leadership....like the racist, and anti-semite barak obama...

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[Curried Goats]

The democrat party today is still racist to it's core.....they simply allowed racists of all skin colors to join the party and become part of the leadership....like the racist, and anti-semite barak obama...

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All world leaders meet with unsavory people, that's the job. Trump said he fell in love with North Korea's dictator. By the way, that racist praises Trump.

 

[2aguy]

All world leaders meet with unsavory people, that's the job. Trump said he fell in love with North Korea's dictator. By the way, that racist praises Trump.

Nope....there was no reason to meet with louis farakhan, the racist, anti-semite.....even the leader of North Korea is a world leader with nuclear weapons who has to be dealt with...

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obama and the congressional black caucus democrats invited the racist and ant-semitic louis farakhan....you can't lie about this meeting.....it reveals that obama and the leadership of the democrat party is racist and anti-semitic, their anti-semitism coming out in broad relief with their open support of hamas......