Denver neighborhood votes against changing name from former mayor with KKK ties

[Stevicus]

Stapleton property owners vote against changing name of neighborhood bearing former KKK member's name

It was a rather lopsided vote, too.

Stapleton property owners voted against changing their neighborhood’s name, despite its connection to a former mayor who was a Ku Klux Klan member.

More than 65% of voters wanted to keep the name Stapleton while almost 35% recommended change, according to results released Monday by an accounting firm. Voting ended July 15.

There was a similar subdivision which recently changed its name from "Swastika Acres."

The community is named for former Denver Mayor Benjamin Stapleton who served as mayor from 1923 to 1931 and 1935 to 1947 was a member of the KKK and appointed KKK members, including the police chief, according to a Facebook post by former Mayor Wellington Webb.

“In 2019, we cannot diminish the impact of the KKK or disregard the history. In today’s society, we have to take a stand and where we stand,” Webb wrote on Facebook last week. He said even if the vote is to keep the name, the issue won’t be going away, though he hoped residents would do as residents of Swastika Acres, a Cherry Hills subdivision, did in April.

It is rather interesting that Denver's main airport was called Stapleton for decades, yet this person's KKK history is only coming out now?

 

[MikeDwight]

How is it that the media is filled with California and New York's rich and powerful , actors and media, then vilified minority groups somehow don't appear with these persecution campaigns? 12 Years a Slave was an assassination attempt of every identification with the South of any background, Disney's Steamboat, to the Plantation, to an inarguable humane 'indentured servitude' and 'peculiar institution' that inarguably raised the humanity of that population alongside the rest of America and kept pace.

The Life-Appointed Chief Justice is definitely a Governmental Oppressive Force upon Minority views at the Federal Level. No one's passing laws on Clarence Thomas, people definitely understand this distinction of farce.

 

[columbus]

Maybe the residents just don't feel the need for the trouble and expense of a name change over something that doesn't matter any more?
Perhaps they could just decide that their neighborhood is named after Edith Stapleton.
Tom

 

[Revoltingest]

Maybe the residents just don't feel the need for the trouble and expense of a name change over something that doesn't matter any more?
Perhaps they could just decide that their neighborhood is named after Edith Jean Stapleton.
Tom

Thinking of Edith Bunker?
Fixed.

Anyway, tis good to see some resisting the purge of history.

 

[Stevicus]

Maybe the residents just don't feel the need for the trouble and expense of a name change over something that doesn't matter any more?
Perhaps they could just decide that their neighborhood is named after Edith Stapleton.
Tom

You mean Jean Stapleton, who played the role of "Dingbat"? That might be an idea.

 

[columbus]

You mean Jean Stapleton, who played the role of "Dingbat"? That might be an idea.

Yes, my real point was the first part.

The latter part was just something that popped into my head just before I hit reply. If I'd thought about it for 3 seconds I'd have remembered more betterly. Jean Stapleton was an excellent person in many ways.
Tom

 

[Shad]

It is rather interesting that Denver's main airport was called Stapleton for decades, yet this person's KKK history is only coming out now?

That history isn't new. Only the awareness of the current public is what has changed. Happens with a lot of US history.