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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
Yeah, frankly I think the fetishization of someone who was undoubtedly a murderous, greedy, colonizer is one of the more offensive government actions in recent memory. I get that they want to celebrate a free black man as the founder of the city, but the fact remains this is land stolen from the Potowatami and guys like DuSable are directly to blame for it. If they wanted to actually be politically correct they would do something, anything, to celebrate the true founders and owners of this place, not a literal colonizer. I would be much more supportive of it being renamed Potowatami Drive or something like that.
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Which is why, as this point was just made two posts up, they should have just stuck with "Lakeshore Drive" because it didn't have any baggage associated with it. But, hey, politics.....