When did this happen and why? I was just driving with my kids and drove past what used to be 39th. Why did they change it to this? As a half hispanic individual, i see no ties to the Latin community on 39th. I can understand if they did this in Woodburn or Hillsboro. I grew up and live in NE Portland and can understand the Rosa Parks/ MLK street change but this makes no sense! Can some of you crackers (It's your people that made this happen i'm sure!) please explain this.
The 290 Ceasar Chavez's in the Portland area have to be happy about this. Btw, this happened this summer, if I remember correctly.
That's very Portland Nimby-like. That's the type of thinking that got the MC preservation protection rather than building an MLB caliber stadium. Chavez was a civil rights activist. Not on the level of MLK but it's the reason why the street is named after him.
Was that cell phone pic sent to Nate Bishop??? In answer to your question the first sign was put up Friday or Saturday.
For the record, it was a AAA caliber stadium. Not MLB. Total waste of time and money if you ask me. I'm all for building a new stadium, but not one that will only accommodate AAA. I grew up in Portland. So did my parents. So did my parent's parents, and so on. I'm 4th generation. I hate the people who have moved here and changed the city. Naming 39th after Cesar Chavez is exactly the kind of worthless shit that gets done here. HCP is right. If they wanted to give Chavez a street, do it in Hillsboro or further south. Not much farming gets done in the Portland area. If you have a garden in your yard do you join the United Farm Workers? Maybe we should change Barbur Blvd to Malcolm X Blvd because there's such a strong Muslim population over here? Actually, I'm waiting for the city to change Burnside to Obama Blvd.
It was a AAA stadium that can be expanded into an MLB stadium. That was the plan, to lure a team here. Noway would the city build a MLB stadium without one in place. I was not for or against the street name change. It was just a street name. But it was named after an important civil rights activist and not some random mexican. We're just one of many cities who have done this. [video=youtube;e7GCCBIgFaQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7GCCBIgFaQ[/video]
But it has nothing to do with our local history. It's the same thing as celebrating Cinco De Mayo.... why do we do it? It's the Mexican Independence day.... Does any other country celebrate the 4th of July? It has nothing to do with our national history. Why don't we celebrate the Canadian independence day? It's on July 1st. I would rather we spend more time recognizing the work of our forefathers than someone who had little to no effect on the city of Portland. For example, why was MLK day recognized as a day off from school and work, but not Presidents day? King was a GREAT man, but his work does not outweigh the work of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, etc. I just think our priorities are skewed. Politicians today are worried about aesthetics and political correctness.
Not everything has to be about Portland. If we were re-naming city hall, you'd have a point. That's just my $0.02.
Once again Ed drops madd knowledge. Sept 16 is Mexico's independence day. Cinco de Mayo started as a celebration of a victory over France back in the 1800's and slowly became simply a celebration of the Mexican culture in general. I just don't believe they should force recognition on a people who have no ties with it. I guess it's no different then people of Nebraska, Wyoming or Alaska having an MLK street in one of their towns.
