{"id":6178,"date":"2020-06-11T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-says-brooklyns-general-lee-ave-must-be-renamed-immediately\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:35:00","slug":"de-blasio-says-brooklyns-general-lee-ave-must-be-renamed-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-says-brooklyns-general-lee-ave-must-be-renamed-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio says Brooklyn\u2019s General Lee Ave must be renamed \u2018immediately\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio says Brooklyn\u2019s General<\/a> Lee Ave must be renamed \u2018immedia<\/a>tely\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 11, 2020 |<\/span> 12:35pm <\/p>\n

\n Mayor Bill de Blasio said he\u2019d renew efforts to change a street named after Robert E. Lee in Brooklyn\u2019s Fort Hamilton military base \u2014 as one of his deputy mayors revealed his ancestors were slaves on the Confederate general\u2019s family plantation.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing should be named after Robert E. Lee at this point in history,\u201d de Blasio said at his daily press briefing Thursday. \u201cAnything named after him has to go in this city.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor was fielding a question about the existence of General Lee Avenue, a stretch of road within the military base in southwest Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

An emotional Deputy Mayor Phil Thompson chimed in to share his family history with Lee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to say that my father\u2019s family, the Thompsons on both sides, were enslaved on the plantation of Robert E. Lee\u2019s father, Henry Lee, and one of my ancestors is named Sarah Lee,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis issue is an emotional issue for many people like me and it\u2019s really hard for us to feel fully part of this country that celebrates our enslavement with names like that on military bases all across this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2017, the US Army turned down a request to change the name of that street and one named after Stonewall Jackson, who like Lee was stationed at the base in the 1840s.<\/p>\n

At the time, the Army said the streets were named after the two generals \u201cin the spirit of reconciliation\u201d after the Civil War.<\/p>\n

But de Blasio on Thursday vowed to fight a war of his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will go right back at the military \u2026 I will reach out to them and let them know how important it is to remove the name of Robert E. Lee not only in Fort Hamilton but everywhere else,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The issue resurfaced in New York City amid a global movement against racial injustices following the Minneapolis police-involved killing of George Floyd.<\/p>\n

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General Lee Avenue in Brooklyn, NY<\/span>Handout<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Virginia on Wednesday, a judge blocked Gov. Ralph Northam from removing a Lee statue. Statues of Christopher Columbus have also been torn down or defaced in recent days in Virginia and Boston.<\/p>\n

Columbus is viewed by some as a hero and others as a vicious conqueror for his discovery of North America.<\/p>\n

Confederate memorials were also targeted in 2015, after white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine black churchgoers in South Carolina and two years later following a violent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville that left one counter-protester dead.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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