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A couple of prescient Ricochetti wags joked that the replacement bridge in Baltimore would be the “George Floyd Memorial Bridge.” (My sons opined the replacement honored figure will be Freddie Gray or Elijah Cummings.) If we have learned anything from the Babylon Bee, it is to NEVER joke about the next woke stupid idea because it might cause it to actually happen.
Right on cue, within 24 hours the Washington Post has discovered that former slave-holding District of Columbia lawyer Francis Scott Key is now officially problematic:
Why not Brooks Robinson or Johnny Unitas? Or maybe "Old Line" after one of the finest and most distinguished regiments in George Washington’s army? Or George Armistead who commanded Fort McHenry during the famous battle? There are so many good choices that will need to be rejected but I have great confidence that our leaders are up to the task of excluding them all in favor of some trite deeply stupid woke gesture. Maybe TBGF Bridge after the The Black Guerrilla Family to honor a leading local chapter of that gang?
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"Bridgey McBridgeface" or get out.
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The only new name I would accept would be the Cal Ripken Jr. Bridge. At least it would be named for someone famous for his staying power.
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Could always name it after his son, Philip Barton Key, or after the man who shot him, Union general-to-be Daniel Sickles. The story.
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Why build a new bridge at all? Surely the idea of bridges has a sketchy past of colonization and Western ick.
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