Dallas has only changed PART of Lamar St. to Botham Jean Blvd. For white Dallas they have white supremacist Lamar St. For African American/South Dallas they have Botham Jean Blvd. They are treating Botham Jean and blackness like a biohazard.

We need ALL of Lamar St. changed to Botham Jean Blvd. The current street names embed in the landscape racial division into Dallas society. Partial naming is tokenism.

We are facing opposition to the name change. Dallas city council is hoping that a partial name change will mean they don't have to change the whole street, especially where rich white people live. 

We need to let Eric Johnson that a partial change isn't good enough. Tokenism isn't good enough. ALL of Lamar St. needs to be changed. White supremacy should not be left on the landscape. 

We have info at the Botham Jean Memorial Committee on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/BothamJeanMemorial

For the deep history of the campaign and to learn about the racism of Mirabeau Lamar and the racist opposition to the name change as well as maps and graphics you can go to two webpages.

This is the campaign for the remaining segment of Botham Jean Blvd. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/lamar-street-new.html

The link below is for the campaign in which the first section was renamed. It has the racist opposition to the name change documented as well as a historical paper on how racist Mirabeau Lamar was. Lamar St. is named after him. Warning some of the racism is graphic. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/lamar-street-old.html

Direct Link to the essay on Mirabeau Lamar and his crimes against humanity.

https://issuu.com/edwardh.sebesta/docs/mirabeau_bounaparte_lamar