Commissioner Biederman told me he decided to walk Lee, Hood, and Forrest streets, trying to drum up support for the street name changes. One white family told him how they didn’t want the names to change, and that their neighbor, a black man, didn’t want them to change either. Their neighbor was just across the street, and they called him over to talk. He told Biederman how he worked two jobs and didn’t have the time to change his address on his ID and bills. But after Biederman said goodbye and walked away, the black neighbor came back to find him, and shook his hand vigorously. “Thank you
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