Weighing in
From: The online comments section of a June 10 article by staff writer Jonathan Brunt on naming a new stretch of Riverside Avenue in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
voiceofspokane: Way to go Spokane!
George Sands: Let’s NOT and just SAY we did.
ChefGus: I’d advocate for the “name” to be that of our own Carl Maxey who was the local touch point and activist lawyer who also marched in the civil rights era … and did a great deal to raise awareness of the racial inequities and discrimination and police brutality here in our own Spokane Basin. Carl Maxey is a hero to many and naming the street could just as well be in his honor. John.
TJ: I don’t think MLK is a good example for anyone to follow, let alone naming a street after him. His value sets were terrible, even as a “man of God”: A known serial adulterer who plagiarized heavily for his PhD, he also flirted with Communism and denounced our government for the Vietnam conflict. Just sayin’.
Spokanada: Oh TJ, Good to see you got the Internet working again in your doublewide. Good luck trying to convince the city that this is a bad idea.
buffalokill: How about we name it after a man with true moral character and conviction, Martin Luther. If MLK was such a great guy, why did Honorable John Lewis Smith Jr. seal the FBI surveillance file on him till 2027? According to an autobiography by Ralph Abernathy. The night before MLK died, he slept with 2 white women and beat a third the next morning. …
Jonathan Brunt: buffalokill – Your assertions about King are faulty. According to snopes.com, a respected Internet fact-checking site, Abernathy’s book makes no such claims about prostitutes, beatings or white women. www.snopes.com/ inboxer/outrage. … Also, much of your post appears to have been copied directly from a Web site run by Stormfront, a white supremacy group.
southie4573: I am dying of laughter – what a bunch of rednecks that live in Spokane – should not we have done this like 30 years ago. SAD! PATHETIC! I lived in the deep south – even in the most racist, horrible places in Mississippi and Alabama there are MLK streets. Good God Spokane – get with it!
Spokanada: Thanks for the clarification Jonathan. I was under the impression buffalokill borrowed his comments from FoxNews.