Street Naming for Sonny Abubadika Carson, Bed Stuy, Part 3

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Uploaded by on Nov 16, 2007

On June 16, 2007, Gates Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn was renamed Sonny Abubadika Carson Avenue by the community. This was an indigenous rejection, by Afrikans, of government decrees and white opinion. This was an autonomous act, and black nationalism prevailed. A small rare victory for the underdog.

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  • SONNY BROUGHT PEACE TO BROOKLYN WHEN KOREANS AND JEWS THOUGHT THEY COULD JUST DO ANYTHING TO AFRICAN AMERICAN/CARIBBEANS, WERE NOT FOR HIM MAYOR DINKINS WOULDNT' BE MAYOR, I REMEMBER BLACK NEW YORK BEING SAFEST DURING THE CARSON/FARAKHAN/MADDOX ERA, IT WAS REAL UNCOOL TO BE IGNORANT, AFTER THE XCLAN ERA, SOMEHOW N W A AND THE B S FOUND ITS WAY IN ALONG WITH THAT BLOOD CRIP B S, CARSON WAS THE TYPE OF MAN THAT EMBODIED STRONG MALE FIGURE, IF WE LIVE UP TO HIS MODEL WE ERADICATE MOST OF THE B S

  • @danequake U REALLY GOT THAT MUCH CONTEMPT FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEY HERITAGE? SUPPRESSING ANOTHER GROUP TENDS TO GIVE YOU CANCER, AND PAIN KILLER, LIQUOR, AND NARCOTIC ADDICTIONS, STOP BELLY ACHING OVER AFRICAN AMERICAN PRIDE, GET OVER IT AND STOP BLAMING BLACKS FOR YOUR INABILITY TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE AS GOD'S CREATION, SOME OF YOU ANGLOS ACT LIKE THE ELIMINATION OF BLACKS MEANS THE ANSWER TO ALL YOUR STRUGGLES, WHAT A IDIOT, THEY SHOULD NAME THE BOROUGH AFTER SONNY

  • Don't you get tired of being so ignorant?

    It takes so much energy.

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