Discussion for article #243703
I suspect that not too long from now, a name change from pro-segregation to pro-capitalism will be viewed as a bit of a lateral move.
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Yeah, nothing says freedom like paying homage to a huge financial institution.
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“For duty, duty must be done
The rule applies to everyone
And painful though that duty be
To shirk the task were fiddle-de-dee.”
The moral motive for this change of names is truly inspiring.
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Hail to the $$!
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Exactly. Capital One pays serious dollars; Curley Byrd might sell a few t-shirts because of the novelty factor.
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“Dis is an outrage!”
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Byrd was an ardent proponent of "separate but equal" education.
So, I guess this means that Scalia Stadium was out of the running?
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Name changed from a segregationist to a corporation that contributed to the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression.
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I am proud that the school made the change.
How about this…
Take the money and call it Capital One Field at Mathias de Sousa Stadium
That would rattle the dumber bigots once they found out who he was.
They say he was a… shushh… “mullato”…
~OGD~
The ardent justice is not from Maryland.
The renaming needs a renaming but at least we are moving away from celebrating the civil war and segregation a bit.
In what, a mere millennium or two, there will protests concerning the wholesale of just about everything to rampant capitalism.
I will pre-name this the, Corporations Were People Too Until They Weren’t-Take Back our Economy Freedom March, brought to you by MegaKock.