Dallas City Council member Adam Bazaldua wants to renamee R.L. Thornton Freeway. / Importance of Street names discussed. Dallas Observer article.

The article is online here: 

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-council-member-wants-to-rename-rl-thornton-freeway-after-juanita-j-craft-11931759

The issues about renaming streets is mentioned and I am quoted a fair amount. 

I had shared with Jacob Vaughn my papers on street names such as the fights over street names, the review of the municipal code on street names, my critique of it, my paper on the metaphysical landscape, etc. 

You can read these papers and papers on why renaming streets is important at these links. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/dallas-streets.html

This is history over the renaming streets in Dallas. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/struggle-over-dallas-street-names.html

This link is to the papers on the Metaphysical landscape and stigmatized property and Landscape reparations

http://templeofdemocracy.com/landscape-reparations.html

Botham Jean Memorial Committee introduces the concept of Landscape Reparations into public discussion via Dallas Observer article.

Often the first thing to be done is to get people thinking in new ways and that involves often new concepts and that involves new terms to get people thinking about new ideas. 

The new terms and new concept is "landscape reparations." 

It is mentioned in this article. 

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-botham-jean-boulevard-lamar-street-11922314

I have a web page on Landscape Reparations with articles and pod casts. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/landscape-reparations.html

At this page I have links to a page on name changes in South Africa. 

The Botham Jean Committee had a rally and the terms "landscape reparations" were used in the speeches and additonally the fact that the landscape didn't have Africaness was mentioned. So the concept is now out  there, and I hope it goes national. I haven't put the speeches online. I hope to get that done at some point. Look to this blog to see the updated info. 

The Friendship West Baptist Church had a speaker and the speaker used the term and it was used in their Zoom broadcast. So the concept is out there. I look forward to it continuing to spread and to reach a broader audience, hopefully nationally. 

https://youtu.be/ozVKptKrnbw

https://www.facebook.com/BothamJeanMemorial

Mirabeau Lamar information to support the effort to change the name of Lamar St. to Botham Jean Boulevard.

It is one stop shopping for all the info you need. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/lamar-street.html

Fight over renaming the Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas.

I have a web page with the links to news articles about the change, historical papers about the racism of Woodrow Wilson, and a link to the Facebook page of the effort to change the name, and a link to the petition to changee the name. 

As of 7/8/2020 in the afternoon they have 3,060 signatures. People are signing now about every 15 minutes. The following is the link. 

https://www.change.org/p/justin-henry-disd-school-board-president-change-the-name-of-woodrow-wilson-high-school-in-dallas-texas

This is the link to the Wilson page will all the information and links you need to change the name. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/wilson.html

Seems that the Sam Davis Youth Camp will not be meeting at the Boy Scouts of America Camp which is on Bridgeport Lake

https://twitter.com/BudKennedy/status/1276995436012863488

This is Bud Kennedys tweet about the scheduled event and its cancellation.

This is the Facebook posting of the Sam Davis Christian Youth Camp - Texas where they announced they were meeting at the Sid Richardson Scout Ranch at the Longhorn Council facility. This is a BSA local division. 

https://www.facebook.com/SDCYCTexas/posts/10159270206283475

Really no one wants the Confederacy. 

No one. 

Confederate monument in Pioneer Park prepared to come down.

It looks like all the preparations have been done to take down the Confederate monument in Pioneer Park. The ramp to bring down the monument and statues is built and some type of structure has been built around two of the monuments.

It isn't clear though when the monument is going to be taken down, but it does look like everything has been done to take it down.

You can watch the progress from this webcam, but whether it will be operable when the monument is being taken down I don't know. It might or might not. This is the City of Dallas' webcam and they might not want people to be viewing as a security measure.

https://wxyzwebcams.com/network/mobile.php?lang=en&country=united_states&state=texas&city=dallas

It happens to be the best view of the monumnet since at the location there is a high fence blocking the view.

Dallas Parks have a 11 pm curfew so it might be that the monument will be taken down during the middle of the night. The police could exclude everyone from the park which would keep the public even further back.

Black Lives Matter painted over Marilla St. Black Lives Matter painted over white supremacy

This is what Marilla St. is about.

http://templeofdemocracy.com/marilla-street.html

Currently the words "Black Lives Matter" is being painted in front of Dallas City Hall. The unintended irony is that in painting over this street they symbolically  represent how the Dallas establishment puts a surface of nice feelings over a reality of racism in Dallas.