Have renaming New Orleans street names to civil rights leaders really helped?

A recent news article on renaming a street name to honor another civil rights leader was mentioned in the Times Picayune. "New Orleans City Council considers name change for St. Claude Street"

"St. Claude Street to Henriette Delille Street, honoring the New Orleans-born "free woman of color" who in 1847 founded what became known as the Sisters of the Holy Family."

"The proposal is backed by the Historic Faubourg Treme Association, and Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer, who represents the area, appears to be in support."

In the last 40 or so years, how many street names, that were renamed in New Orleans, have resulted in a better life for the area's residents and businesses?

Did changing Melpomene Avenue to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard help in any way? Well let's see. Crime still up. In fact way up and breaking records every day.

Did renaming the street Dryades Street to Oretha Castle-Haley Boulevard help in anyway? (see Bio of Oretha Castle-Haley)

Let's see, this street is where the homeless hang out, crime is still rampant and getting worse. It was only because of Katrina there are now some non-profit businesses. But the few that are located there are to help the poor if that. She fought for rights just like MLK Jr did, but look at the results? If she knew what it was today, would she have fought for those rights as hard? Just look now in the prisons. A highly disproportionate percentage of the prisoners are black. And there are some that say that's unfair and the blacks are imprisoned unjustly and should be let go.

Let go??

Do you know what will happen if they black prisoners are let out? They, the black prisoners would go out and do what got them in prison in the first place. And that's rob, steal, attempt to kill and kill ANOTHER BLACK MAN. That's right, most crime is BLACK on BLACK. Pure and simple. And from her bio,

"she was the deputy administrator at Charity Hospital in the 1980's to "institute better reforms for blacks".

Well, everyone can see what became of that. The intentions might have been good, but the results, years later, were quite the opposite. While the hospital care was good, blacks abused this free health care and caused many blacks to use it like welfare, public housing and food stamps. And this is not to mention
it attracted (and kept) more poor and especially lazy "know-it-all, don't-tell-me-what-to" blacks (and whites) into the city. This forced the hard working blacks out of the city. And that's what you saw before, and after, Hurricane Katrina, "The Big Easy" type of attitude. (Very similar to socialism and communism with a racial / rights twist, but basically the same.)

So do you think Oretha Castle-Haley would have fought for the outcome as we see today? If she did, she was very effective in making several generations of black men the type of people who don't know who their fathers are and could care less what Oretha Castle-Haley or MLK Jr. did. Nevertheless, they, the poor, do know that there are lots of homeless on Oretha Castle-Haley Boulevard and there are lots of drugs, guns and murders in or around MLK Jr Boulevard. Except for major public events like Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest when the homeless are forced to move, you can see the homeless for yourself once you drive down the highway off ramp camped out below the overpass on each side. Some will ask solicit you for money even on the highway's off ramp. Very dangerous.

But, what about renaming some of the New Orleans Public Schools to black leaders? Well a lot of that renaming was done 10, 20 or more years ago. And as you can see, that certainly had zero effect.

WHERE ARE THE PRESERVATIONISTS WHEN YOU NEED THEM
So where are the preservationists to preserve the history of New Orleans when street names around a hundred years old are renamed on a whim to people the public really knows nothing about to begin with. And even when told, a day or so later, the public forget and still have no clue or could care less about them. And when they did change the name, nothing got better on that street even decades later.

Imagine the city of New Orleans with totally different street names every 10, 20, 30 years. Where would be the famous New Orleans history be if the history was only a day old? Street names would be like yesterday's news. There would be modern street names and there is nothing really unique about a civil right leader now as all they do is march, protest, file lawsuits, apply for welfare, section 8, and government grant on housing and everything but set a good example on how live a happy and successful life, create a real business, work a trade, skill or profession out of their own work.  Businesses like low income housing, race relations and all that civil rights stuff have nothing to show for themselves for the last 30 or so years except plenty of lawsuits suing for racial discrimination. Some rightfully so, but many are not. But when you look at it all the street renaming in New Orleans, it definitely got worse for the area, at least crime wise. And as you can see on these streets there were renamed, crime is still through the roof, and that is mostly black on black crime.