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Anybody who votes against renaming a street for Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, or Harvey Milk is absolutely certain to be declared a bigot who hates blacks, Latinos, people of color generally, and homosexuals. \u00a0Hate, hate, hate. \u00a0Proposition H8. \u00a0And so forth.<\/p>\n
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Now, truth be told, I don\u2019t really mind having a street named after Martin Luther King. \u00a0He was a genuinely heroic and truly national figure, and\u00a0his assassination was a vicious crime. \u00a0And racial bigotry is a serious moral failing that he helped us to face. \u00a0It seems just a tad rote and obligatory to me, frankly, since virtually every city of any size now has a Martin Luther King Boulevard, but I\u2019m fine with it. \u00a0(I wonder how many cities have George Washington Boulevards or Abraham Lincoln Boulevards. \u00a0Does Salt Lake City?)<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m a bit less on board with naming a street in Salt Lake City, Utah, after Cesar Chavez. \u00a0Mr. Chavez was a California labor organizer, and he was controversial even back when he was alive and I was living in the state. \u00a0His wasn\u2019t such \u00a0clear moral issue, but a matter of economics and public policy on which decent people could disagree. \u00a0Not everybody supported\u00a0his boycotts of California agricultural products, and I guess I missed the memo announcing his transformation into a secular saint to whom every substantial city must dedicate a major street. \u00a0But whatever. \u00a0No harm, really, and it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n
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As for Harvey Milk? \u00a0You may recall that he was a member of\u00a0the San Francisco Board of Supervisors \u2014 the first openly gay elected public official in California \u2014 who was assassinated (along with Mayor George Moscone) in November 1978, after holding office for just eleven months. \u00a0It\u2019s natural and, in fact, it\u2019s right and proper that the city of San Francisco now has a George Moscone Center, for instance, and a Harvey Milk Plaza. \u00a0Murdered public servants should be remembered and honored, just as their murderers should be abhorred and disdained.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t strenuously object to renaming a Salt Lake City street for Mr. Milk, but I do find it rather odd.<\/p>\n
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Is there a street named after George Moscone? \u00a0For that matter, how many Utah governors remain streetless? \u00a0How many Utah senators and congressmen? \u00a0How many Salt Lake City mayors? \u00a0How many prominent Utah artists, writers, pioneers, inventors, scientists, and public officials? \u00a0Is there a Henry Eyring Street? \u00a0A Deedee Corradini Street? \u00a0I honestly don\u2019t know. \u00a0Has any boulevard been named after Avard Fairbanks?<\/p>\n
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I suppose it\u2019s part of the tribute that a conservative state must pay to icons of the political and cultural Left. \u00a0It might plausibly be seen as an attempt to escape\u00a0demonization. \u00a0I have no real hope or expectation that progressive-leaning outsiders will ever give up\u00a0regarding the dominant religious and political blocs here as haters and troglodytes, but the situation would likely be even worse if we failed to genuflect where genuflection is required, however briefly.<\/p>\n
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