Letter to the Dallas Independent School District about renaming South Lamar St.

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March 25, 2021 Edward H. Sebesta XXXXXXXXXXX Dallas, TX XXXXX edwardsebesta@gmail.com Justin Henry President Dallas Independent Board of Trustees Board Services Office 5151 Samuell Blvd. Dallas, TX 75228 Dear Mr. Henry: When the City of Dallas wishes to change a street name, one of the actions done is to contact the property owners of those properties on a street or abut it. For the Lamar Street name change to Botham Jean Blvd., NC190-003, the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) was contacted for the following properties at to whether they supported or opposed renaming South Lamar Street to Botham Jean Boulevard. 1. 3701 South Lamar St. (Now 3701 Botham Jean Blvd.) DISD did not respond to the inquiry. DISD should not only have responded, but they should have supported the name change. Mirabeau B. Lamar was a vicious racist who vigorously supported slavery, led a genocidal campaign against Native Americans in Texas, attempted an invasion of New Mexico, ran ads for runaway slaves in his newspaper in Georgia, was an owner and seller of slaves, made pro-slavery speeches, made racist threats to subjugate Nicaragua, was sympathetic to filibusters against Cuba. A biography is available for download as a PDF at this webpage. http://templeofdemocracy.com/lamar-street-old.html Or you can download it from here: https://issuu.com/edwardh.sebesta/docs/mirabeau_bounaparte_lamar I enclose with this letter a 14-page PowerPoint which gives a good short summary of his numerous crimes against humanity. The streets of a city compose a text of those who were thought to be important in history. The streets of Dallas unfortunately make up a white supremacist text saying that non-whites don’t matter. If non-whites mattered, if their humanity was significant, these street names would be intolerable.


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