I'm actually very pleased to see something like this. I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma and we have or had streets named for people just like this. The most well known would be when W. B. Brady Street was renamed due to the man who it was named after, W. Tate Brady, was found to have been a member of the the Sons of Confederate Veterans as well as the Ku Klux Klan. Brady was involved in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The street was renamed in 2013 after a Civil War photographer named Mathew Brady and in 2019 it was renamed once again to Reconciliation Way to completely eliminate Brady's name from the location.

As a Torontonian I'm okay with this.
I prefer this and keeping place and street names than some form of revisionist erasure.
Don't turn away from the past.
- Just like the movement to remove John A. MacDonald from our current presence. That's bullshit.
Feel free to paint him an a darker light but don't ignore his accomplishments.
We as Canadians already knew he was an alcoholic manipulating asshole.
(if you as a Canadian don't then you don't know enough history.)
But people DO NEED to be congratulated on for what they do if they warrant it.

Lmao, because having streets and things named after the shitty people of history definitely isn't revisionism. How many streets and whatnot do you come across in your day to day life that are named after abolitionists, suffragettes, labor organizers, or anti-war activists?

There are a few streets named for John Brown - also a couple of statues :)

Not enough tho.

Marc Ribot - "John Brown" (feat. Fay Victor)

Damn! That's some killer saxophone!
And apparently uncredited :/

They got it on the bandcamp.

Written & Arranged by Marc Ribot (Knockwurst Music)
Background Vocals: Rea Dubach & Lukas Rutzen
Sax: James Brandon Lewis
Trombone: Curtis Fowlkes
Bass: Tony Garnier
Percussion: Reinaldo de Jesus
Drums: Chad Taylor

thanks

Well at least if streets are named after shitty people I would rather know about their shittyness than have them covered up.
hell I am okay with the so called "good guys" having the same treatment.
One of Canada's first suffragettes and leaders of the early women's movement was also a creepy eugenicist who wanted to sterilize the mentally challenged.
(this got a tad messy when she was considered for having her face slapped on money. )

lmao, stripping people of accolades is now a cover up? You've gone from claiming that people who don't know about the negatives of shitty people of history need to know more about history to claiming that removing their accolades will keep people from knowing history.

I'm just saying that we should look at everything a person does.
- People shouldn't stop looking at and appreciating paintings done by Caravaggio
just because he was a murderer.

Except you're operating under a revisionist version of history telling people to stop trying to fix the same propaganda that is serving to continue their oppression.

But we should ignore his "accomplishments." He was a murderer and a traitor, and that should overshadow anything else he did. He loved puppies? So did Hitler, and no one gives a shit.