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https://nypost.com/2021/05/22/columbus-haters-rename-street-for-murderous-haitian-emperor/

Some of the city’s biggest elected Christopher Columbus haters spearheaded an effort in the City Council to rename a Brooklyn street after Haitian emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines — who is infamous for a brutal massacre of thousands of white settlers in 1804.

In 2018, then-City Councilman Jumaane Williams and Councilwoman Inez Barron celebrated the addition of Dessalines’ name to the corner of Rogers and Newkirk avenues in Flatbush.

“Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a revolutionary who fought for his people and overthrew an oppressive regime who brutally enslaved and persecuted the Haitian people,” Williams, now the city’s Public Advocate, said triumphantly at the time.

“This was not something that was done in the usual manner and passed with ease. This was a fight and a struggle,” said Barron amid the jubilation of Brooklyn’s local Haitian community.

Of course, renaming a street after a hero means nothing unless people bother to actually model themselves after the hero.

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