39th Avenue now Cesar E. Chavez Blvd.

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I'm so glad we solve race issues in this country by changing signs on streets rather then dealing with embedded racism and it's causes. This country should be renamed Band-aid-istan.
 
I'm not sure what the cost is to replace signage throughout the city, but even if it cost $5 it wouldn't be worth it. This change has absolutely no direct benefit, other to honor a segment of the population that has no history in that area of Portland and currently makes up less than 1% of the population in direct vicinity of the street itself.

I've made no bones about the fact I'm ok with public investment in many areas, but only if it has some economic benefit attached to it. Even in my wildest imagination I cannot see any net gain by doing this.
 
I remember they've been trying to do this for years. I guess if you do it enough times, eventually it will pass.
 
why not just rename a street in hillsboro, that's where the migrant farmers are yah? well, maybe SCHOLLS.
 
Baseline Ave. in Hillsboro would be much more appropriate in terms of actual meaning to a community. The freaks who hang out at 39th and Hawthorne probably don't even know who Cesar Chavez was.
 
So people who live there or have businesses have to say "I live on Ceaser E. Chavez Blvd"?
 
It's very lame. I'm in favor of honoring him, but a park or a bridge would have been much more appropriate and much less of a hassle.

barfo
 
Maybe they can raid the schools budget to pay for the new street signs. Oh, wait....no money there either. Honestly, the people who promote these things should be the ones who have to fund them.
 
I think so. Personally if you have to do it, why not do Grand Av? Then you have MLK going one way, and Chavez going another. I think they tried several streets and ran into opposition everywhere before they decided to go after a numbered street.

Well, at least the mayor can now finally say he did something besides an intern.
 
teh blacks will get pissed if they had to share the name of the streetz.
 
Actually, here's a better idea: The Cesar E. Chavez Urban Growth Boundary. That would actually make sense.

barfo
 
hehe...from a month ago
Later this month, the Portland City Council will consider turning 39th Avenue into Cesar Chavez Boulevard. A few business owners on the east side have already decided how they are going to respond to the seemingly inevitable yes vote.

They're going to try renaming Northwest 23rd Avenue after Richard Nixon.
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I still tell people my childhood home is at Portland Blvd. and Denver Ave.
Rosa Parks name should be on a park not a street, I mean 'park' is in the name.

Downtown Phoenix every avenue is named after a former President. At least there is consistency to that and no rick of it being changed.
 
Next thing you know they will name a street Martin Luther King Blvd and people will have to say they live on Martin Luther King Blvd.

After that maybe trying to add some parks in the area . . . what an economic drain.

I say pave it all and put up strip malls.
 
PapaG said:
Baseline Ave. in Hillsboro would be much more appropriate in terms of actual meaning to a community. The freaks who hang out at 39th and Hawthorne probably don't even know who Cesar Chavez was.
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You do realize this makes you look like a bigot right?
 
Rodolfo said:
You do realize this makes you look like a bigot right?
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How so? The demographics in Hillsboro would make much more sense to the community that Chavez assisted. How is me stating a demographic fact bigoted? I think it's bigoted of you to assume I'm bigoted. In terms of demographics, MLK and Rosa Parks Way both make much more sense in their location than Cesar Chavez does on SE 39th.
 
PapaG said:
How so? The demographics in Hillsboro would make much more sense to the community that Chavez assisted. How is me stating a demographic fact bigoted? I think it's bigoted of you to assume I'm bigoted. In terms of demographics, MLK and Rosa Parks Way both make much more sense in their location than Cesar Chavez does on SE 39th.
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I would agree with this. Name a street where lettuce is still picked.
 
The next time the City cries about not having any money for [X], I'm going to remind them of the $86,000 they blew on this empty gesture.
 
Allow me to be blasphemous for a second. I just don't get it. I understand that Chavez was a fine leader in the 60s, but I just don't see how he rises to a level of an MLK. It's not even close.

And I also don't get why we need a street named after him. I am from California, I used to live in the central valley. There it makes sense. But what connection does he have to Portland? None really.

I am a liberal, but this is liberal hooey through and through.
 
PapaG said:
How so? The demographics in Hillsboro would make much more sense to the community that Chavez assisted. How is me stating a demographic fact bigoted? I think it's bigoted of you to assume I'm bigoted. In terms of demographics, MLK and Rosa Parks Way both make much more sense in their location than Cesar Chavez does on SE 39th.
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PapaG said:
the freaks who hang out at 39th and Hawthorne probably don't even know who Cesar Chavez was
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That's not a bigoted comment?
 
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