Brooklyn Community Board Rejects Proposal To Name Corner After Notorious B.I.G.

[ls773]

herzl got a street named after him in brooklyn and starting zionism doesn't seem to be as beneficial to the world as writing gimme the loot.

 

[daze23]

Her argument against the petition is bullshyt coming 3 days after Columbus Day, named after a mass murderer/slave trader that didn't discover anything. But BIG rapped about selling crack though.

she didn't even mention the 10 Crack Commandments, or anything about his music

No, I meant to say the Pilgrims since Thanksgiving was originally attributed to the 1623 celebration by the colony at Plymouth. Less than a year later they started murdering the same Indians that helped them survive in the first place.

Of course it's beyond the scope of naming a street after a rapper. That's my point. We've been doing this more or less since day 1 in this country, why stop now at a rapper?

Fred.

I figured out what you meant, and already edited my post

but we'll never make progress if we hold ourselves to the standards of the past

 

[hex]

she didn't even mention the 10 Crack Commandments

I figures out what you meant, and already edited my post

but we'll never make progress if we hold ourselves to the standards of the past

I feel you but it's convenient for people to say (not you, I mean in general) "we should hold ourselves to higher standards" because now it's a rapper. There's a mostly black school in Florida named after a Grandwizard in the KKK. This country was founded on murder and slavery, a street named after a rapper that sold crack is like a Tuesday for us.

Fred.

 

[NYC Rebel]

As a Brooklyn head from the area, for one....I'm not surprised it was turned down. The change in the neighborhood and those in control of it now ensures that BIG wouldn't be honored in such a way. Second...I can't say with honesty that I'd be comfortable with BIG being honored in such a way because his lifestyle didn't exactly reflect something to be carried on by others. But the nastiness of the council leader is bothersome and reflects these newbies disdain for the old guard from BED STUY.....fukk a Clinton hill. That's the Stuy.....But it is in name only now. fukk those newbies and their glee to wash away the past. They can keep that uninteresting borough

 

[daze23]

I feel you but it's convenient for people to say (not you, I mean in general) "we should hold ourselves to higher standards" because now it's a rapper. There's a mostly black school in Florida named after a Grandwizard in the KKK. This country was founded on murder and slavery, a street named after a rapper that sold crack is like a Tuesday for us.

Fred.

it's just the way our society is now. having a criminal background is a huge stigma. if you catch an F, you're pretty much a second class citizen. some people, like Malcolm X for example, have overcome that, and do have streets named after them. but that's because he made an effort to 'turn his life around', and do something 'positive' that affected many people. now I guess you could make that argument about Big and the music, but he kept on catching charges, and the music wasn't that 'positive'. I mean, Chuck D caught feelings over The 10 Crack Commandments, so you can only imagine how some city council person is gonna see that. unfortunately Big passed at a young age and early in his career, so we don't know what he could have evolved into, but that is what it is

 

[Nomad1]

Biggie Smalls> some white bytch that accidentally made contact with America

 

[theworldismine13]

big wasnt positive enough to deserve it

 

[kermit da hustla]

Well if Biggie found Brooklyn he'd get much of his bullshyt looked over too. But he didn't. He only found Junior M.A.F.I.A. .

I'm sorry, but

 

[WheresWallace]

As did JFK, Abraham Lincoln, 9/11 victims...

And let's keep it real here... if we want to dig into their histories, there are plenty of shytbags who have done a lot worse than the things Biggie did that have streets and schools named after them and are revered in this country... starting with Thomas Jefferson.

Good point...How many schools are named after slave owners?

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, ect. Its worse when they are black schools that are named after these sociopath's.

Instead of black folks worrying about renaming Property in Brookyln, they should focus on OWNING the property in Brooklyn...then they can rename it.