Louisiana Official: Naming Streets After MLK As Racist As Confederate Flag

Posted by | July 31, 2015 19:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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The Confederate flag is a symbol of racism, but so is naming streets in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. says Vicki Bonvillain, who sits on the Terrebonne Parish School Board. She deleted the post where she made the ridiculous comment.

According to the Daily Comet, the post read “If this symbol represents racism in America SO DO THESE.” It equated a Confederate flag with symbols of other groups, including the NAACP, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, BET, Black History Month, the Democratic Party and the Black Panthers, among others.

“Our ‘elected officials’ want to accommodate our HISTORY to PLEASE some. WELL shouldn’t ALL ‘MLK’ BLVDs be removed nationwide?” Bonvillain wrote in a similar July 9 post, according to the Comet.

In response to the posts, Terrebonne NAACP chapter President Jerome Boykin has called for Bonvillain to resign and called for a meeting.

“I don’t think she deserves to serve the public school system with an attitude like that,” Boykin told the Comet. “Slavery was wrong. The rebel flag is disturbing to African Americans.”

Bonvillain, who has a personal Facebook page which is public, and also one she uses in her role as school board member, mostly posts about her deep Christian faith…

 

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30 responses to Louisiana Official: Naming Streets After MLK As Racist As Confederate Flag

  1. Larry Schmitt July 31st, 2015 at 19:25

    Her deep christian faith. Can’t be all that deep if she still believes crap like this.

    • whatthe46 July 31st, 2015 at 19:53

      you are making me want to scream and it makes no sense to scream when you can’t hear me. but, imagine my screaming so loudly that you yourself would go hoarse: “SHE’S NOT A FK’N CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      p.s. i’m not screaming at you sweetie.

      • Larry Schmitt July 31st, 2015 at 20:02

        My mistake was in not putting “christian” in quotes. I’ll be more careful in the future.

      • The Original Just Me July 31st, 2015 at 20:52

        WOW ! I heard that and I live all the way up here in Idaho.

        • whatthe46 July 31st, 2015 at 21:09

          lol. oh, forgot to tell ya. my family and i took a road trip to Pocatello from San An years ago. beautiful trip (not pocatello, not that it’s not a beautiful place, just wouldn’t want to live there) anyway, we went through the rockies and i remember saying i can’t wait to go through. well, since i’ve been there and done that, you would and could never get me to go through there again. i was terrified out of my mind. my son, lost his, the youngest, he was so damn light headed, he just kept repeating, “poke you in the head” over and over and over again, while poking me in the head and laughing his butt off. we all started getting light headed. my brother had to go through there on a road trip with his band. he was so scared after that trip, that before he had to go back through, he got our last name tattooed on his shoulder. just in case. yep. that scary.

          • The Original Just Me August 1st, 2015 at 06:05

            What route did you come on ? There are several different ways to get here but as I recall, only Teton Pass out of Jackson Hole would give those types of reactions. I have lived near the mountains all my life and I guess I just don’t even notice them. I always traveled through Nebraska and Kanas at night so I wouldn’t miss anything.

  2. NW10 July 31st, 2015 at 19:29

    Typical dipshit Republican.

  3. Warman1138 July 31st, 2015 at 19:40

    What about all the crap that’s named after Klanners and Segregationists all over the South and elsewhere. What a freaking hypocrite.

    • The Original Just Me July 31st, 2015 at 20:51

      Hypocrites know what they are doing . This fine example of insanity is totally and completely out of her mind.

  4. labman57 July 31st, 2015 at 19:55

    I suppose God spoke to her and told her to equate the Confederate flag with efforts to honor the memory of MLK …

    • The Original Just Me July 31st, 2015 at 20:49

      She is definitely the type that would hear voices.

      • whatthe46 August 2nd, 2015 at 02:48

        huh? wat? who is dat?

        • The Original Just Me August 2nd, 2015 at 04:59

          Whooo Dat say Whooo Dat ?

  5. The Original Just Me July 31st, 2015 at 20:48

    To use a flag as a symbol of hatred towards any group of people is just plain wrong. But, in the MLK case, These streets and Blvds. are being named to honor one particular person and his contribution to our society in general. It is totally amazing that this person has such a lack of knowledge about such a simple concept and can still be put in charge of educating children. It is confusing that anyone would elect her to such a position, given her lack of common knowledge. But, these same people, knowing now, what she is, continue to support her and keep her on in a education leadership capacity, WELL, LORD HELP US ALL !

  6. amersham46 July 31st, 2015 at 21:11

    Martin Luther King won a Nobel Peace Prize , enough said

  7. dewired4u July 31st, 2015 at 23:28

    ” posts about her deep Christian faith” Seems to me the deeper they get into their faith the stupider they get, a blissful kind of stupid though and with a paste on grin.

    • The Original Just Me August 2nd, 2015 at 04:58

      The deeper they get into their Religion the more Deranged they get.

  8. whatthe46 July 31st, 2015 at 23:41

    how about we continue with getting rid of schools named after the confederate loosers. lets get this party started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and no, MLK BLVD. ain’t going nowhere. it stays.

    • Tommie August 1st, 2015 at 01:00

      Go get’em and nice reply!

      • whatthe46 August 1st, 2015 at 01:03

        i have my moments. thanks.

  9. Tommie August 1st, 2015 at 01:09

    Here is a positive role model that they (the right) say about telling blacks who they should look up to! What did they do?! Claim using his name is RACIST as the confederate flag! This stuff don’t make no sense!!!!

  10. Mike August 1st, 2015 at 07:34

    Another christian racist…nothing new here.

    • rg9rts August 2nd, 2015 at 07:43

      School board is distressing

  11. Jeffrey Samuels August 1st, 2015 at 09:24

    Unfortunately, this just reinforces the stereotype that all Christians are stupid and ignorant. They are not, though I would guess that evangelicals would be in the top percentile of ‘dumb and uniformed’.

  12. CandideThirtythree August 2nd, 2015 at 01:34

    I can’t wait to get out of this state!!! Today I was stuck in the chair with a raging republican hairdresser! Everything was Obama’s fault…OMG! all I could do was hold my tongue because she had a razor blade, my son was sitting on the side giggling.

    • whatthe46 August 2nd, 2015 at 02:46

      this bitch is the product of what happens when you’re home schooled in the bayous,

    • rg9rts August 2nd, 2015 at 07:42

      Colorado really sounds good

  13. rg9rts August 2nd, 2015 at 07:41

    And you wonder why Jindalstan turns out no Rhodes Scholars

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