Defiant community leaders will gather Saturday in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn to unveil a new street sign bearing the name of Sonny Carson, a radical black activist who described himself as "anti-white."Sonny Carson was a disgrace, and Barron is an avowed racist and if he were white and said such derogatory things against the black community, he'd be run out of town.
The renegade renaming comes nearly three weeks after the City Council voted down the proposal during a heated and racially charged hearing at City Hall. Council Member Charles Barron, a Democrat of Brooklyn, and his chief of staff, Viola Plummer, will attend the event.
Ms. Plummer has been under fire since saying "if it takes an assassination" she would prevent Council Member Leroy Comrie, a Democrat of Queens, from becoming the next president of Queens. The comments came immediately after Mr. Comrie abstained from a vote on the street sign, a move Ms. Viola viewed as an affront to the Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus.
Tomorrow's renaming will be the second attempt by Carson supporters to honor his memory despite not receiving official approvals from the city. On Memorial Day, Mr. Barron and others unveiled a sign at Linden Park in Brooklyn with his name. The sign was taken down by the city Department of Parks and Recreation.
In fact, Barron continually takes a page out of Carson's playbook, which included a quote that Carson was anti-white.
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