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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCrowd Cheers As ‘Old Dixie Highway’ Gets New Name In Honor Of Barack Obama
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http://reverbpress.com/discovery/old-dixie-highway-barack-obama-riviera-beach/
edhopper
(33,639 posts)All of Dixie Highway should be renamed.
demmiblue
(36,903 posts)Actorvist
(29 posts)n/t
demmiblue
(36,903 posts)It is the second road in Palm Beach County to be named in honor of the 44th president, county officials said. Two years ago, Pahokee in western Palm Beach County renamed East First Street to Barack Obama Boulevard.
In a strong statement, Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters told WPTV 5 the name Old Dixie Highway is an inappropriate relic from the slavery and Jim Crow eras:
[The Old Dixie Highway is] symbolic of racism, symbolic of the Klan, symbolic of cross burnings and today we are stepping up to a new day, a new era, and replacing Old Dixie with Barack Obama, who represents change."
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)And compare it to Martin Luther King Jr Way in Berkeley, then I saw the cross street.
These things, however nice, must drive the sign makers nuts.
brer cat
(24,625 posts)They are all over the south, and they ALL need to be replaced.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)I always used the finger when passing the Reagan sign on the Turnpike.
brer cat
(24,625 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I think it is even an international one...blech.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)The original was "Intercontinental Airport Houston" which is also still in the FAA designation of IAH. And then there's George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
You can usually tell that someone is older or been in Houston a long time when they just say "Intercontinental" versus those who are younger or newer to the city (as they call it "Bush".) Most people here know what airport you mean when you say Intercontinental. When they don't, you educate them on the proper name for the airport
And both airports (Hobby and Intercontinental) are international.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I shudder every time I hear his name.....
kentauros
(29,414 posts)IAH means no Bush
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Thanks for posting. K&R
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)Skittles
(153,220 posts)YER KILLING ME
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)Skittles
(153,220 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)lastlib
(23,322 posts)I still would like to see the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL renamed as the Edmund Pettus-John Lewis Freedom Bridge.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)A good start