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‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« on: January 21, 2020, 01:41:18 am »
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/weve-got-to-change-this-has-dixie-highway-reached-the-end-of-the-road/ar-BBZ8lQX?ocid=spartandhp

It was an email from a retired businessman and the words of a Miami-Dade County commissioner that led several leaders in South Florida to consider changing the name in parts of the region.

In July, Modesto Abety-Gutierrez was driving on South Dixie Highway in Miami on the way to drop his 16-year-old granddaughter, Isabella Banos, off at a friend’s house. When Isabella noticed the sign, she asked her grandfather why a name that symbolized slavery was still being used. She later suggested Harriet Tubman Highway as an alternative.

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Re: ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2020, 01:41:43 am »
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Re: ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2020, 02:22:15 am »
Southern Utah is sometimes referred to as "Dixie."

It has nothing to do with slavery, that I know of.

It has to do with climate and crops.

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Re: ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2020, 02:28:46 am »
Quote from: truth_seeker on January 21, 2020, 02:22:15 am
Southern Utah is sometimes referred to as "Dixie."

It has nothing to do with slavery, that I know of.

It has to do with climate and crops.

Dixie State University in St. George.

The article says they aren't trying to rewrite history. I say they are.
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Re: ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2020, 04:05:58 am »
Is this what passes for American History in school now?

Dixie = slavery?   *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2020, 04:13:31 am »
Journey  -  Dixie Highway


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Re: ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2020, 02:17:32 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on January 21, 2020, 04:05:58 am
Is this what passes for American History in school now?

Dixie = slavery?   *****rollingeyes*****
That's exactly what passes for American History in our stellar gubmint schools.
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Re: ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2020, 02:23:03 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 21, 2020, 02:17:32 pm
That's exactly what passes for American History in our stellar gubmint schools.

I weep for what my grandkids will be exposed to when they start school in few years.
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Re: ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2020, 02:28:45 pm »
Crap, now we will have to change our secret racist town hall meeting place too.

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Re: ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2020, 02:36:23 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on January 21, 2020, 02:23:03 pm
I weep for what my grandkids will be exposed to when they start school in few years.
Anymore, it's practically child abuse to send a child to public school.  **nononono*
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Re: ‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2020, 11:38:31 pm »
txradio wrote:
"I weep for what my grandkids will be exposed to when they start school in few years."

Why would they go to public school in the first place?
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