The Fate of The Signs?

 

The old name

The New Name

As you know by now, the city has changed the name of Jeff Davis Avenue to Fred Gray Avenue, to honor the civil rights lawyer instead of the confederate slave owner and traitor.

     So what happened to the dozens of signs like the one above that marked the street as it crossed the dozen or so other streets along the route the Avenue follows?

      I am told "they are in a warehouse".

     What should happen to them?

     The simple answer is destroy them.

     But I am sure they could be used in a more creative teachable lesson, no? 

• Melt them down and make the scrap metal available in an art contest to create an historic reminder of the human slavery Davis advocated and practiced? 
• Melt them into a ball and bury it as deep as practical under Dexter avenue, where enslaved people were bought and sold, with appropriate signage? 
• Encase the signs upside down in concrete along the newly named Fred Gray Avenue?

          The possibilities are endless.

          But perhaps forgiveness should be part of the message?

          Your thoughts?

(P.S. As I have previously pointed out, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall can and will fine the city under the Kay Ivey confederate protection law. But will it be a single $25,000 fine? Or one $25k fine for each of the street signs changed? Tempting, Mr. Marshall?)