SHOULD THE CITY CHARTER BE AMENDED TO DEFINE WHEN A STREET OR BUILDING OR PARK CAN BE NAMED AFTER A PERSON?
I took the following from the Sanchez/Montoya blog.
Rogelio Guevara said...
We have a bad habit in Brownsville of naming schools, roads, streets and buildings after people who are still living. This practice just begs for disaster. What are you going to do when that person gets caught with their fingers in the cookie jar and goes to jail? Do we have a Joey Lopez Blvd yet?Nothing should be named after anyone until.....
A) They have been dead for at least 5 years or
B) They donated the property for the building or
C) They died in heroic service to the city or country.
P.S. Nothing should ever be named after anyone who gained their fame while they were on the government cake walk.Maybe this is an issue the Charter Review Committee should look at
2 comments:
I agree with Rogelio Guevara. Mexico also has a bad habit of doing this and it is nothing more than personality cults by bum kissing or self-serving politicians.
We should go further, on both sides of the border, and establish more specific rules on these criteria. But we whould definitely prohibit schools, streets, etc. to be named after the living.
Absolutely right; personality cults are not part of our culture.Leave that to dictatorships. I agree 100% with your observations, nobody wants to see a George W. Bush boulevard.
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