Samuel Maverick was one of the first slave-owners in MA, and it's past time #EastBoston disowned him. I've been proposing for yrs that we re-dedicate the square to a different Maverick: the youngest victim of the Boston Massacre.
Keep the name, lose the legacy
#mapoli #bospoli
Keep the name, lose the legacy
#mapoli #bospoli
https://twitter.com/CommonWealthMag/status/1383816083962880003
Or to this guy, whatever, literally any other Maverick
Samuel Maverick:
-owned all of what is now #EastBoston and #Chelsea
-purchased, tortured, and experimented in crude forced eugenics on humans
-does not deserve to have his name on an entire square, a T station, a street, a court, etc
#mapoli #bospoli
-owned all of what is now #EastBoston and #Chelsea
-purchased, tortured, and experimented in crude forced eugenics on humans
-does not deserve to have his name on an entire square, a T station, a street, a court, etc
#mapoli #bospoli
This square and T stop are only a few blocks from my house, and they literally define my neighborhood on the map. I love #EastBoston, but I hate this.
Once you know this kind of thing you can't not, and I've thought about it almost every day for more than a decade
#bospoli
Once you know this kind of thing you can't not, and I've thought about it almost every day for more than a decade
#bospoli
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