Renaming, relocating Confederate memorials an acceptable (GA)

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Posted February 14, 2018 10:41 pm - Updated February 15, 2018 09:07 am
By Savannah Morning News

... Savannah City Council ... They voted unanimously to rename and modify the <Forsyth Park Confederate Memorial.> and to relocate the Lafayette McLaws and Francis S. Bartow statues to the cemetery where those men .. rest ...

The decision closes the local debate – at least officially – over the appropriateness of Confederate memorials ...

More challenges lie ahead. The name of the Eugene Talmadge Bridge is another ugly bruise ...

Another recent argument surrounds a Skidaway Island waterway. Last week Sen. Lester Jackson .. proposed renaming Runaway Negro Creek ...

http://savannahnow.com/opinion/editorial/2018-02-14/editorial-renaming-relocating-confederate-memorials-acceptable-solution

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1. runaway n.... WHAT????

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2. Some things are just kind of amazingly dumb

This bridge name amount them.

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3. Jackson's resolution would rename it "Freedom Creek"

I myself would push for "Freedom Run" since "run" is a synonym for "creek"