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MYNorthwest Opinion — President Barack Obama is just beginning with a campaign to rename federally recognized places.
At least, that’s what the White House’s decision to rename North America’s tallest mountain leads KIRO Radio’s Ron Upshaw to believe.
Alaska’s Mount McKinley, now Denali, was a test to see how the public reacted to the name change, Ron believes. It’s a start, but Obama is going to take the idea further.
“I think he went to his advisers who said [they] can’t come out of the gate and change the name of an Army base,” Ron said as an example. “Let’s do a test project.”
That’s why the White House went ahead with a name change in a location without a large population, Ron speculated. It was also a good move to irritate Sarah Palin and Republicans, Don O’Neill quipped.
But changing the name of North America’s tallest mountain is part of a larger plan of changing the names of other locations and buildings, Ron says.
“Paying tribute to the people who were here before us is going to be the new political correctness,” Ron said.
It might not be so much political correctness, as it is doing the right thing, Don said. White people have been deciding what to name things, instead of honoring those who were first here, he added. However, not everyone calls landmarks by their federally recognized names; take Mount Rainier, for example, which many climbers refer to as Tahoma or Tacoma, he continued.
The battle over names will go well beyond mountains. Ron believes places that recognize or bolster Confederate history could be slated for new names and there’s even the potential for removing landmarks.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if you go to Charleston and they’re renaming X, Y and Z,” Ron said.
It wouldn’t be far off from the actions taken by organizations and various governments to remove the Confederate flag, which was, in part, prompted by a massacre that left nine black people dead.
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Alaskans, R, D or I, have been trying to change the name back to Denali for over 40 years.
May be part of a bigger plan?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
Removing the Confederate battle flags. Removing and dismantling all evidence that the Democrats ran the south.
Wanting to remove the names of Conservative Republicans from public places.
No, no bigger plan here.
Move along folks.
Nothing to see here.
I’m aware of that as Mr. Illustr8r is from Alaska…it’s the potential of what else this administration may decide to rename in an effort to correct “wrongs” that ultimately obliterates American history.
It’s no different than ISIS destroying the temple at Palmyra
Small man trying to reshape history
If Alaska wanted it changed I am sure they could have done it themselves by now, without help from POSPOTUS
If they keep this up sooner or later no name will mean anything anymore. And no names will be allowed that are named for dead white people like Washington state as well as DC, the Columbia River will have to be renamed since it’s named after Christopher Columbus, Columbus, Ohio is also a big no no and etc., ad infinitum till nothing will have any meaning. and any city named after a Saint with San in the name like San Francisco or San Diego or Los Angeles/the city of Angels. And what about Corpus Christi, Texas which means the body of Christ. All these names of places will have to go if the libtards ever fully got their way. And just how big a fit do you think they will throw in 6 years on the 500th anniversary of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock? Go away progtards we’re sick and tired of constant whining, bellyaching and bitching about everything you don’t agree with. And go F**k yourselves like Mr. Goodbar used to say in the underground comics.
OK, I know it’s only been 400 years 1620-2020! And a great 400 years at that. Take that progtards and shove it.
From Zero Hedge
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2015/08-overflow/20150901_mounatin.jpg
So now I’m pondering what The Grand Tetons will be renamed to.
Something gay, for sure.
Keep it Grand Tetons. Which is French for Big Tits, boy those mountain man and French Voyageurs must have been a bunch of horny bastards to give them a name like that.
Death by 1,000 tiny cuts… R.I.P. AMERICA 🙁
Call me when he renames Hillary to #42751 Leavenworth.
FDR, do they have a lend lease program in Hell where you can get out of Hell for a night or two and haunt barry’s dreams and literally scare the hell out of him? And could Woodrow Wilson go along too? And even Harry Blackmun and Margaret Sanger to convince him of the error of his ways. Didn’t think so, if you can’t do it maybe God will. I’d be far more afraid of God if I was barry than you guys anyway but barry is certainly on his way to join you if he doesn’t change his ways.
Denali is the name it’s been, long before McKinley’s ancestors came to the new world. It should have never changed in the first place. Name a river or a lake in Ohio after the guy.
I have previously advocated on this blog that every city, county and AHJ in Califonicate be forced to change its name that references a Catholic saint (I’m Catholic before you get torqued). The amount of money these secular pricks would have to spend changing every map, street, river, eq fault, etc., is limitless.
San Francisco can change its name to Tranniestan; the San Andreas fault can now be called White Mans fault….you get the picture. Fuck the pan sexual black lies don’t matter mofo’s.
There has to be a damn good reason to change the name of a landmark that has already been listed on millions of maps and in geography books, mapping software, GPS basemaps, in documentaries, movies, on post cards, gift shop souvenirs, etc.
But it takes very little reason for 0bama to step in and try to take credit for something the state of Alaska was already going to do without him.
Barry Hussein wanted his name attached to the McKinley name change. We all know that if 0bama can erase a Winston Churchill or a Ronald Reagan he won’t hesitate. Anything that might hurt conservatives, 0bama is right on it. That is his M.O.
I think anybody would have named them that. A couple of the peaks really do look like big tits. There’s no better way to explain that landmark. Everybody likes tits.
Now “Split Rock” could have easily been called “Ass Crack”, but those early mountain men did have some limits. 🙂
Why do you dignify this moron’s “thoughts” by publishing them?
I have been to Alaska a number of times. Best way to identify yourself as an IGNORANT tourist is to call the peak McKinley. Best way to get punched in a Fairbanks bar is to call it McKinley.
Funny that “states rights” fanatics want the state of OHIO to get naming rights for a mountain in ALASKA. The Alaskan congressional delegation has been trying for 40 YEARS to get the name changed, an effort that has been blocked by the Ohio delegation. I don’t think Alaskans would object if the highest peak in Ohio (1500′) were to be renamed Mound McKinley.
Finally, did George W. Bush “overreach” ion 2007 when he changed the name of a forest in Puerto Rico?
“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the Act of June 4, 1897 (16 U.S.C. 473) and section 1 of the Act of July 1, 1902 (48 U.S.C. 746), and to rename the Caribbean National Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. The Caribbean National Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is hereby renamed the “El Yunque National Forest.”
Nice bike, Ze!
(see how that works?) :-/