New York Airport to Be Renamed After Frederick Douglass

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Monroe County legislators voted August 11 to change the name of the Greater Rochester International Airport to the Frederick Douglass-Greater Rochester International Airport after a Rochester resident petitioned to commemorate the local abolitionist.

Richard Glaser, the petitioner, collected nearly 5,000 signatures to change the name of the airport.

“Frederick Douglass holds an unparalleled place of prominence in the history of Rochester and Monroe County,” Monroe County Executive Adam Bello said in a statement last month.

“He called Rochester home for more than a quarter-century and it was here that he founded and published his North Star newspaper, wrote some of his greatest works and speeches and continued his life-long fight for emancipation, suffrage, equality and human rights. His world-renowned leadership on social reform is a legacy that lives on throughout our community.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/new-york-airport-to-be-renamed-after-frederick-douglass/ar-BB17VpwD?li=BBnb7Kz

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Works for me.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. That's Nice!

I've been in & out of there a few times.
Did some consulting at a private label laundry formulator near Rochester.
Planes were regularly loaded with Kodak folks going to or from corporate HQ.
Nice little airport, kept clean.
Renaming it for Douglass is a good idea.

[lagomorph777]

16. I remember it fondly; lived and worked right next to it for years.

Also traveled through it.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Boy, Was Getting The Rental Car Easy!

Lots were at one end of the terminal. I could literally get to my care 90 seconds from the counter!
I've been to other small airports, and they're all super convenient!

[lagomorph777]

19. I love small airports.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Maybe Rump will invite him to the WH to honor the occasion.

I understand he's a fan.

[Aristus]

4. HA!

[lunatica]

7. Well he has heard that Douglas is doing good things.

He probably thinks Frederick Douglas would like him.

[robbob]

8. I'll second that "Ha"! You beat me to it!

I was going to comment along the lines of “Don’t they normally name these things after deceased people?”, but your version is much funnier. I immediately got an image in my head; tRump at one of his pressers inviting him to the WH: “I hear he’s been doing great things, we’d like to get him here to congratulate him in person. We can do that?” (looking around), “We’ll get him here, ok...”, and all the stooges on stage just nodding their craven heads; yes sir, we’ll get right on that...

Would it be any more bizarre then some of the things we’ve seen?

[crickets]

5. Good for Monroe County and Rochester. That's wonderful. nt

[KS Toronado]

6. The name change should come with a giant statue of him at the airport.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. He's doing great things!

Even still, he's doing great things!

[NNadir]

10. Excellent. With Lincoln and Grant, he was a member of the triumvirate that saved...

the United States from itself, Lincoln defining the political sphere, Grant the military sphere, and Douglass the moral sphere, with some overlap between them.

[pandr32]

11. Awesome!

I also can't wait to take corporate names off of parks, arenas, etc. and replace them with the names of real heroes we need to honor and perpetuate the memory of.

[Withywindle]

12. Nice! Chicago just renamed a park after him.

Douglas Park, now Douglass Park, had been named after Stephen Douglas, a pro-slavery Senator. They can completely flip the meaning by adding just one letter to the signs!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Park_(Chicago)


Not a huge Chicago connection but he did give a great speech at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

[George II]

13. It's also not far from Seneca Falls, the home of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention....

....the first major event of the Women's movement.

[Hekate]

14. Good news

[reACTIONary]

15. Rah Cha Cha! nt

[NBachers]

18. Spencerport Erie Canal native, born in Rochester, living in San Francisco.

I still miss my Erie canal hometown, and get to see pictures of it every day on my hometown website.