The comments by Tom Yawkey's biographer disgusted me. Tom Yawkey may have kept his racist views out of the newspaper, but he hired and enabled a series of racist General Managers, like Pinky Higgins, who were the direct actors in the refusal to sign future Hall of Fame players (we all know the stories), enabled child molestation and delayed integration of the Red Sox.
It was John Harrington who was the driving force behind the Yawkey Foundation. The fact that Tom Yawkey made a lot of money that someone else spent for admirable charitable purposes does not change his character. You do not have to be Satan's clone and have no redeeming characteristics before it is appropriate to reconsider being honored by having a city street named after you. Almost every despicable character in American history did something that had positive consequences. That does not mean that there should not be careful scrutiny of how they should be honored, if at all, and when we should re-evaluate any past honors.
Comments such as, "Where will it end" and "He did some good things, too" indicate a discouraging insensitivity about the impact that these "honors" have on victims of sexual abuse and racism.