Councilman Canek Aguirre gave comments at the January 9th city council meeting, arguing for the renaming city streets named after Confederates. This comes ahead of a planned January 20th vote on the issue of Confederate street names.
Councilman Aguirre in the Washington Post article about the meeting:
Council member Canek Aguirre (D) suggested that preserving any Confederate street names — or even rededicating them — loses sight of the message that those names convey to the city’s Black residents.
“It’s a symbol that basically says, ‘Know your place,’ ” he said during Tuesday’s meeting. “While it might be inconvenient to some, we need to consider the larger meaning of why we’re doing this.”
