Fleet vehicles might be changing

"just-a-scratch" (just-a-scratch)
11/20/2018 at 11:30 • Filed to: None

I’m s orry for the poor quality pic, but it’s a hopeful sign.

DISCUSSION (10)

Ash78, voting early and often > just-a-scratch
11/20/2018 at 11:40

“Your budget is $30k, just find something simple, preferably with a Toyota engine in it. We have to be good stewards of our tax revenues.”

/TIL that King County is actually named for MLK

//For all the work he did in the PNW , of course

///I live in Jefferson County but old TJ never even came here

////but MLK was imprisoned here

/////ironic slashy

just-a-scratch > Ash78, voting early and often
11/20/2018 at 12:12

////// The county was originally named in 1852 after Vice President William Rufus de Vane King, a slave owner and advocate for the Fugitive Slave Act.

https://www.kingcounty.gov/about/logo.aspx

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Ash78, voting early and often
11/20/2018 at 12:41

King County was NOT named after MLK, that was a ridiculous revisionism. I also find it funny that essentially every city has a renamed MLK road , even in places he only visited once (or less). It’s also, invariably, the road that runs down the middle of the sketchiest part of town, which seems like thinly veiled racism to me. I’m just visualizing the city/county council meetings that decide this:

We need to look inclusive and like we support civil rights. Let’s rename one of our streets after MLK. Which street should we rename?

*everyone mulls it over, ultimately settling on the poorest and highest-crime region of the city*

How about we rename [Insert major road that runs down the middle of this section of the city]?

Obviously, King County took it a step further and decided they’d use the likeness of MLK for their logo due to the happy coincidence of a matching name.

Ash78, voting early and often > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
11/20/2018 at 12:46

Wow — That may be the worst revisionism I’ve ever seen, especially offensive to whomever it was originally named for (Edit: see another post in the thread, very informative) . I just saw the face on the vehicles and did a quick Googling. I figured they probably just changed the name at some point, sort of like how airports get their names changed every few decades.

Full disclosure: MLK is one of the people I admire most across all of history. No offense intended there.

Ash78, voting early and often > just-a-scratch
11/20/2018 at 12:47

Wow, sounds like they really lucked out with the name similarity, then...

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > just-a-scratch
11/20/2018 at 13:08

Meh, I did insurance for a huge multinational and they had soooo many fleet cars (echos, yaris). And then 3-4 high end vehicles for their management.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Ash78, voting early and often
11/20/2018 at 13:17

I mean if they renamed it entirely due to who it was named after, I’d have no problem with it, but it was like, “let’s just whitewash our name since it coincides”. It’s worse in my mind because so many people in the US with African admixture have the last names of the families of their historic owners. Adding that all up rubs me really wrong. If the county started out as, say, Duwamish County (which would have made a lot of sense and probably never would have been changed ), it would be less offensive to me.

MLK’s assassination was the worst thing that could have happened to the civil rights movement.

Ash78, voting early and often > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
11/20/2018 at 15:06

Yeah, it just strikes me as “We’ll save over $300 million not having to re-do all of our letterheads and forms! And also something something civil rights hero or whatever...”

FWIW, Birmingham’s airport is named for Fred Shuttlesworth, who was one of Dr. King’s closest advisors and “lieutenants” here in Birmingham. He only died a few years ago, so I’m sure it was nice to see his name on the airport while he was still around.

just-a-scratch > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
11/20/2018 at 16:57

King County didn’t try to hide the original namesake, so it’s a bit different from whitewashing . It just tried to correct a poor historical choice. It was convenient that the c ounty name didn’t have to change.

The county was originally named in 1852 after Vice President William Rufus de Vane King, a slave owner and advocate for the Fugitive Slave Act.

https://www.kingcounty.gov/about/logo.aspx

just-a-scratch > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/20/2018 at 16:58

It’s actually someone’s private vehicle. It’s just parked in an unusual spot in the garage.