Memphis renames 3 parks that honored Confederacy

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7. As a Memphian,

let me point out that these bland, generic names are all temporary.

When the City Council started making overtures recently about changing the names of the parks, the Republican-dominated legislators in Nashville drafted a 2-page emergency bill to prevent (paraphrasing) any park representing a war or war figure from being changed or renamed.

http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/108/Bill/HB0553.pdf

So the Council met last night and passed the resolution in a hurry to change the names to non-war figures, effectively neutering the bill. Now they can slow down and take their time and give them proper names.

As with anything Memphis, the whole thing just reeks of racism. The folks who romanticize the Confederacy are venting their spleens all over the various comment boards. Well, the ones who can write, anyway.