Martin Luther King park is named
Kent Park in Côte-des-Neiges, seemingly named only by the street on one side, was officially renamed Parc Martin-Luther-King on Monday.
(Previous brief discussion about why the street was named Kent in the first place.)
Michae Black 19:10 on 2019-07-17 Permalink
It’s right next to the rehab centre where I’ve been for about a month, working to get back to being able to walk again (my muscles lost strength from underuse at the hospital).
I had to check, since the map app hasn’t changed the name. There is a swimming pool, and what seems like a lot of green space, but it’s hard to tell when I can’t go walking yet.
I do wonder if all three parks are together because it’s an “ethnic” area. I don’t put Nelson Mandela up with the other two since the ANC weren’t non-violent, but Gandhi-ji and MLK are definitely for all of us. If they are seen only as heroes for some groups of people, that’s not good.
His youngest daughter keeps tweeting that we need to remember her mother. And I’ve seen hints that her mother was why her father spoke against war in the end, though lots of people in the civil rights movement like Bayard Rustin and James Farrmer sat out WWII as pacifists, as did many whites who joined civil rights after tge war (not really that abruptly).
But I read that Coretta Scott went to university with Marjorie Swann, who in the sixties was involved with CNVA, a fairly radical group non-violently against war. She may have even babysat for Coretta.
The civil rights movement took the WWII pacifists work ( which extended Gandhi’s work) so all three helped to buikd non-violence, separate from the causes.
They maybe should be parked in a more central location.
Michael