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Petition to rename Lee Circle to Leah Circle
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:20 am
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:20 am
After Leah Chase.
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Brent Rosen, president and CEO of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, has started a petition to rename Lee Circle as “Leah Circle” in honor of chef Leah Chase, New Orleans’ matriarch of Creole cuisine who ran Dooky Chase’s Restaurant and whose family was known for its civil rights activism. Chase died Saturday (June 1) at age 96.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu left office without finalizing plans for Lee Circle. A bare pedestal remains in the center of the traffic circle in the Central Business District. Mayor LaToya Cantrell has said that she would like to make a decision on the circle’s future during her term as mayor.
As of early this morning, more than 700 people had signed the online petition.
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Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:21 am to TH03
Agreed. But have to note the speed of response. That was fast. 
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:22 am to jbgleason
Perhaps don't name it after a person at all? 
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:22 am to jbgleason
It's simply great, mate, waiting on the levy
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee!
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee!
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:22 am to jbgleason
This won't sit well with the OT. They are more focused on honoring a racist general than a black woman.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:23 am to jbgleason
I respect the hell out of Leah Chase.
But no, it's Lee Circle.
But no, it's Lee Circle.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:23 am to jbgleason
I would consider renaming Orleans Ave. to Leah Chase Avenue
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:24 am to CaptainPanic
Super woke take bro
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:24 am to TheCaterpillar
Lee circle or gtfo
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:25 am to CaptainPanic
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racist general
How?
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:25 am to jbgleason
Let's call it "Triggered Way" and honor the meme girl.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:25 am to CaptainPanic
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This won't sit well with the OT. They are more focused on honoring a racist general than a black woman.
We're all confederates racist, or just General Lee?
This post was edited on 6/7/19 at 7:19 pm
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:25 am to jbgleason
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:25 am to TheCaterpillar
Leah is great, and I don’t have problem with statues coming down/names changing but don’t like it being sooooo similar with Lee to leah. Was a much bigger fan of the toussaint idea a few years ago if doing this
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:25 am to TH03
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How?
Because narrative and revisionist history.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:28 am to TheCaterpillar
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I respect the hell out of Leah Chase.
But no, it's Lee Circle.
This.....honor her some other way...put her name on the Convention Center, Airport, CCC for all I care
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:28 am to jbgleason
It is a chocolate city. What do you expect?
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:30 am to jbgleason
It sounds like a waste to focus on this. People who care one way or the other about "Lee Circle" are pretty silly, but I'm all for honoring her another way and moving on.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:31 am to jbgleason
I'm pretty sure locals are still gonna call it Lee circle no matter what happens...so whatever
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