Mushmouth
05-08-2018, 08:03 PM
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh bowed to pressure from John Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox and The Boston Globe, to officially rename Yawkey Way back to Jersey Street.
Henry got the mayor to do his bidding because Henry said he was “haunted” by the alleged racist past of Tom Yawkey, the late owner of the Red Sox.
Jersey Street got its name 150 years ago when the Back Bay was filled in and the streets laid out by architect Arthur Gilman. The street was named after George Augustus Frederick Child Villiers, the sixth Earl of Jersey, who died in 1859.
His fortune, like the fortunes of practically all the members of British royalty and the titled class, was based on the slave trade.:lmao
http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2018/05/jersey_street_has_its_own_dark_past
Henry got the mayor to do his bidding because Henry said he was “haunted” by the alleged racist past of Tom Yawkey, the late owner of the Red Sox.
Jersey Street got its name 150 years ago when the Back Bay was filled in and the streets laid out by architect Arthur Gilman. The street was named after George Augustus Frederick Child Villiers, the sixth Earl of Jersey, who died in 1859.
His fortune, like the fortunes of practically all the members of British royalty and the titled class, was based on the slave trade.:lmao
http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2018/05/jersey_street_has_its_own_dark_past