Martin Luther King Boulevard - Greenville, NC

Greenville, NC enters the fray as the latest locality to attempt to rename a street for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The count is always growing. We've covered the following:

• Charlotte, NC
  
• Durham, NC
  
• Quincy, IL
  
• South Bend, IN (no controversy here)
  
• Lynchburg, VA
  
• Louisiana and Ithaca, NY

This article goes into more depth than many of the others as to the objections. I won't judge those who made these objections. You can decide for yourself what you believe is motivating them.

• loss of long-standing street identity
• the cost of an address change
• feared decline in property values
• ruination of businesses sharing that address

The positive thing that comes out of this is a process for opeing this up for discussion. People need a way to express their feelings and be heard by government. Strong-arming the change without hearing the objections does not honor MLK's memory.

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