Leah Chase Circle (1 Viewer)

[Mr. Sparkle]

Welp, Leah Chase did not make the cut. She was bumped in favor of "Égalité Circle"

The New Orleans City Council Street Renaming Commission settled Wednesday night on its final recommendation for the traffic circle that once hosted a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee: Égalité Circle.

The proposal, which would actually apply to the circular park surrounding the still-standing pedestal and not to the roadway itself, is perhaps the most debated and closely watched of the commission's recommendations. The suggestions now go to the City Council, which will decide what changes to make to 34 streets and three parks that were named for Confederate leaders and supporters of segregation.

For Lee Circle, a third - and final - name proposal as 37 changes go to New Orleans council

Recommendations end first phase of process that started after protests against police violence, racism

www.nola.com

They must have discovered a bad tweet from Leah Chase or something.

Final list of recommended changes: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_8f26117c-76ef-11eb-b071-b7834391c853.html

 

[buzd]

Welp, Leah Chase did not make the cut. She was bumped in favor of "Égalité Circle"

Fun fact: "Egalite" is how you score deuce in tennis in French.

So, "Deuce Circle"

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Fun fact: "Egalite" is how you score deuce in tennis in French.

So, "Deuce Circle"

I'm down for Deuce Circle.

"Égalité Circle" pretty much guarantees people will just keep calling it Lee Circle. Or maybe Eagle Lite Circle.

Such a clusterf-

 

[mb504]

I don't want to be the guy who calls it Lee Circle because he's mad about statues, but I will have to do it because that name is forking terrible. Two accents? Really?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Welp, Leah Chase did not make the cut. She was bumped in favor of "Égalité Circle"

For Lee Circle, a third - and final - name proposal as 37 changes go to New Orleans council

Recommendations end first phase of process that started after protests against police violence, racism

www.nola.com

They must have discovered a bad tweet from Leah Chase or something.

Final list of recommended changes: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_8f26117c-76ef-11eb-b071-b7834391c853.html

nola.com sucks

 

[St. Widge]

Fun fact: "Egalite" is how you score deuce in tennis in French.

So, "Deuce Circle"

Well, la tee dah.

 

[St. Widge]

Welp, Leah Chase did not make the cut. She was bumped in favor of "Égalité Circle"

For Lee Circle, a third - and final - name proposal as 37 changes go to New Orleans council

Recommendations end first phase of process that started after protests against police violence, racism

www.nola.com

They must have discovered a bad tweet from Leah Chase or something.

Final list of recommended changes: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_8f26117c-76ef-11eb-b071-b7834391c853.html

This pretty much so will ensure that people continue to call it Lee Circle. They needed a familiar, easy, and popular name that would make people want to use the new name. People are not going to know how to pronounce that name and they just won't use it.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

I was having this discussion with someone at work. She was saying "they are removing history" by renaming Lee Circle (she is also very much against removing Lee statue).
I asked her to tell me some information on Robert E Lee other than he was Confederate General. She had nada. So i said, if that statue/name of street helped with people remembering history, it doesn't sound like its working. Maybe people should learn history by actual learning and not from reading a plaque from a statue.

 

[Doug B]

Did Toussaint Circle ever get mentioned? Double-duty name that can commemorate both N.O. musician and icon Allen Toussaint, and Haitian slave-revolt leader Toussaint L'Ouverture.

 

[mb504]

Did Toussaint Circle ever get mentioned? Double-duty name that can commemorate both N.O. musician and icon Allen Toussaint, and Haitian slave-revolt leader Toussaint L'Ouverture.

I think Robert E. Lee Boulevard is being renamed for Allen Toussaint.

 

[Zack Lee]

Did Toussaint Circle ever get mentioned? Double-duty name that can commemorate both N.O. musician and icon Allen Toussaint, and Haitian slave-revolt leader Toussaint L'Ouverture.

that last part is interesting. I seem to remember history books saying that the slave revolt was the largest reason that Napoleon turned his attention away from the Americas. He needed the island for a launch pad in his objective to expand here. Selling Louisiana followed not long after I think.

 

[Zack Lee]

I don’t suppose it’s acceptable to just put the General Lee car up there no?

 

[bigdaddysaints]

I don’t suppose it’s acceptable to just put the General Lee car up there no?

 

[SebaSaint]

Damn... sorry if I ruined it. They must’ve found out that a conservative like me supported the idea:

Sign the Petition

Rename Lee Circle to Leah’s Circle

chng.it

 

[jrdbrn]

Why are these proposed street names so long? I mean, I get that they are named after people, but these are too long.

Leontine Goins Luke Street
Henry James "Red" Allen Street
Sherwood "Woody" Gagliano Avenue
Morris F.X. Jeff Sr. Park
Dyan French "Mama D" Cole Street

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