Tampa Tribune reject

Letter to the editor,Tampa edition
It is long past the time in America when a public official,such as Rose Ferlita should be oblivious to the fact that renaming a street which runs through crime ridden ,blighted , highly commerce populated , and with a black neighborhood in order to “let the black people have THEIR hero honored and memorialized”is as much an insult to the memory of the sacrifices of the heros of the civil rights movement as it is an attempt to once again throw a bone to Americans with African in their bloodlines.
By now, these many years later ,there should have been several streets in new parts of Tampa named after those who sacrificed much and sometimes all in the cause for civil rights for ALL Americans. Are not there people of all colors in these new sections of Tampa? Don’t all Americans who are decent and have intelligence believe in racial equality? Is it still let the n-----s have their street in black town?-Still?
People of such stature as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and many others,black and white ,who were courageous enough to take a righteous stand when they could have been killed deserve to be remembered with roads with beautiful vistas, big beautiful buildings with elaborate facade, parks of striking grandeur and proper, dignified remembrance by all of the people;for all of the people have benefited. All will continue to benefit.
Delbert W. Allegood
Zephyrhills , Fl. NOTE:Tampa has greatly increased in size and in
Nov3,05 new streets in recent years.