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To: DoughtyOne
I read an article the other day that stated the name was not actually opposed up until some activists got hold of the issue some 40 years ago and turned it into one.

False claim. It was hated from the beginning.

Hudson Stuck, the first to climb to the Summit of Denali 1913 pleaded to get the original name restored.

http://chriswoodside.com/who-led-first-ascent-denali

You can still buy his book and read that in his preface

http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Denali-Hudson-Stuck/dp/1602061335

Do you think any other government that might replace us down the road would have second thoughts naming places as they saw fit?

Should we start reverting all the places we have renamed in the United States?

I think the will of the people who live there should not have a group of outsiders change the name of their local place. I think when such a wrong has been done, and the locals spend decades trying to get an overbearing federal government to restore their rights to local control, we should encourage them.

129 posted on 09/01/2015 2:44:57 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Well, I disagree.

When you open the barn door, all the cows tend to get out.

Note how the ACLU and homosexuals have taken their efforts on the road, filing suits and forcing change.

We’ll be lucky if that doesn’t happen now with every object in the nation tainted by those evil people who came from Europe.

Don’t expect to see Martin Luther King Boulevards or Caesar Chavez boulevards changed in the rush...

Think of the many places we have named. Watch activists exploit the model you have just endorsed.


131 posted on 09/01/2015 2:50:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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