Posted on 08/11/2014 11:10:44 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The governing body of one New Jersey town voted in favor of renaming the local Kennedy Center after the current White House head — and calling it the Barack Obama Center — and some residents aren’t exactly happy.
Philly.com reported that the renaming came at the request of Willingboro Township Mayor Jacqueline Jennings, after she recalled how the black population in the region reacted with excitement at the campaign and election of Mr. Obama.
“I think that people have a sense of pride about him,” she told Philly.com. “We had so many new people register to vote, people who had never voted before, people who were disenfranchised. … All of a sudden, we had … people wrapping around the buildings when the polls opened. It was a sense of history. Everybody wanted to be a part of it.”
But plenty of local residents are upset at the town council’s name change.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Are they nuts?
Meh, one Democrat for another, what’s the difference.
I named my outhouse after the Clown. Does that count?
Disenfranchised? Doesn’t she mean too lazy to get off the couch and walk down to vote?
Yes it does!
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha...
Pure pandering
“Bill Ayers Center for Police Car Bombing”
“Uncle Joe Stalin Center”
“Al Gore Writ of Carbon Absolution Center”
and
“Lucifer Islamic Center”
Nearly a 5 way tie!
Whatever the name, if it is in an area of formerly disinfranchised people who would want a building named after Bammer, it is a place I will never go anyway.
Ha. Wallow in your excrement all you want. I’ll still not care.
As long as they don’t get my tax dollars name it whatever they want.
Of course the city council is going to rename anything it can in favor of the majority population's heroes.
Why would anyone be surprised?
Oh....well that explains a lot. So you aren’t expecting the Kennedy’s to object.
Brace yourself if you want to go to the source article. Slow, lots of popups, small window for article itself.
Let’s name it the Obamugabe Center.
In honor of two black leaders.
“We had so many new people register to vote, people who had never voted before, people who were disenfranchised.”
What I blithering idiot. They were not “disenfranchised”, not, in their area, even before the civil rights era. They were “new people” who registered to vote and people who “had never voted before” by their choice, NOT that they had been prevented from it. And many of them, WHITE and black voted for all the wrong reasons, beginning with the mistake that mere HOPE can be translated into meaningful change. It was a scam from day one and meant to attract ANYONE who would NOT judge Obama by his character but WOULD judge him solely by the color of his skin IN FAVOR OF the mere color of his skin - NOT his character.
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