Cassandra & the Confederate Con

It looks like there is now the political courage in El Paso to change the name of a school named after a treasonous confederate general that had far more Americans killed than Osama Bin Ladin. 

Long over due, but EPISD is got it done - and its something pushed by a half-Latino, half-Palestinian trustee. 

Gotta love El Paso. 

But we still have a road bearing Robert E. Lee's name - in a community famous for having the first all-African American basketball team win a national championship. 

Obviously renaming a street is normally a more difficult and more complicated affair than changing the name of a school. But in this case, its really not that difficult at all.

Or is it?

You see, a few years ago - that was the bullshit City Rep Cassandra Hernandez was trying to sell people. 

There was an effort a few years ago to change Robert E. Lee to another name - Dolores Huerta. The only reason it wasn't done is because City Rep Cassandra Hernandez simply didn't have the political will to change it back then. 

So lets just tell the truth about Hernandez - she needed more black people to die at the hands of cops before she felt it was necessary to change the name of the street. 

Just kidding. 

She didn't feel that way - she's just trying to make the best of a bad situation.

Also - she's trying to distract from the fact that she gets a shit ton of money from the police union - and her fiancé has been milking the PD union for money. 

She's not benevolent and doing this because its "the right thing". She's doing it because she's getting pressure and her and her fiancé get a lot of their income from the PD union. 

Robert E. Lee is a short stretch of road. When you want a road name change to happen, you generally have to get all the properties that front that road to go along with the idea. It can be a real pain in the neck - which explains why it happens so rarely. 

But when there is a the political will to get something done, municipalities make it happen. 

Well Robert E. Lee has one or two properties that front the road. It is seriously a simple task to change the name. Only one business - not even a resident - would be impacted, which would be Track One restaurant. 

I know all this because I tried to get City Rep Cassandra Hernandez to make this name change years ago and she didn't get it done. Correction - wouldn't get it done. 

How shameful would be it if we ended up having military bases renamed before this town had the political courage to get a street without one address on it, to have its name changed?

So before she tries to take credit for the name change - the truth is she only did it because another black man was killed by cops and the public had to rise up over the issue. 

Cassandra Hernandez isn't showing any political back bone here, she's just responding to the pressure to avoid criticism of how much money her family gets from the law enforcement unions. 

This literally could have been done years ago. Fort Bliss changed the name from the Robert E. Lee gate a long time ago. It was renamed to the Buffalo Soldier gate, just like this street. Our progressive liberal town is behind a conservative military installation in changing the name of something named after a treasonous general responsible for killing more Americans than foreign terrorists.