Key "Monuments" Named After Famous Black Leaders Which Today's Blacks Citizens Bring Shame To Their Honor

I have talked about this on several previous occasions. In Atlanta there has been a theory which says that part of the problem with "today's Blacks" is that (again especially in Atlanta) their "slave masters" of yesterday adorn the street signs in their communities. It is true that many key ATL streets were named in the honor of various Civil War Confederate Generals. Over the years their names have been removed and replaced by "Black Civil Rights Leaders".

We now have "Ralph David Abernathy Dr", "Josephy Lowery Drive", "Rev Joseph E. Boone Drive", "Andrew Young International Blvd" and of course "Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Drive". The airport has been renamed "Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport" after the late mayor Maynard H Jackson, who presided over the redevelopment of the airport, making it what it is today.

As I read about the demolition of the "Bowen Homes" housing project I had previously never bothered to research who Dr Bowen was and what he did to earn such an honor.

Dr John Wesley Edward Bowen Sr - Wikipedia Page

John Wesley Edward Bowen (December 3, 1855 – July 20, 1933) was born into American slavery and became a Methodist clergyman, denominational official, college and university educator and one of the first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D. degree in the United States. He is the first known African-American to receive the Ph.D. from Boston University, which was granted in 1887.

W.E.B. DuBois On Dr Bowen:

Who has not heard of John Wesley Edward Bowen, who was born in New Orleans in 1855, educated there and at Boston University and has worked at Morgan, Howard and Gammon? For twenty-five years while at Gammon he has been the kind of upstanding figure in the Methodist Episcopal Church which has made that church hesitate to get rid of him and his kind.

1. Just imagine if these two paragraphs had been hung in large letters at the Bowen Homes while they were still standing?
2. Just imagine of Black people who have their megaphones trained upon the Black Community today used their voices to tell of the greatness of these men despite the societal obstacles they had in their way INSTEAD OF using this same history to tell today's Blacks how THEY have been damaged from history's past mistreatment.....OF PEOPLE like Bowen.  
3. Just imagine if our people today were told to LIVE UP TO the standard set by great men of the past, NO EXCUSES because any violations of their rights are prosecutable by the government today that now enforces its laws?

Just Imagine