Posted on 12/17/2015 3:27:45 PM PST by lowbridge
Old Dixie Highway is now officially President Barack Obama Highway within the city limits of Riviera Beach.
For the residents of Riviera Beach, it has been a long time coming.
Mary Brabham has been a resident of Riviera Beach for years. She says the change is welcome.
"It's time to let the past be the past. We are moving forward and do things not for one, but for all."
According to Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters, Old Dixie Highway served as a reminder that this city was once heavily segregated.
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I’m sure that the locals will have other names for it.
Let me guess it goes both ways
Oh,b-rrrotherrr!
GREAT idea, because naming all the exits that you do NOT want to take as "Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd" was getting old!
[[ If you are driving in a city and find yourself on Martin Luther King Boulevard ]]
Is it that bad?
How is renaming the road after our most divisive president ever inclusive for all? The Dixie Highway is a name that generations of people all over the eastern US are familiar with.
Does this mean the Dixie Chicks have to go?
There ya go. LOL!
It’s time to let the past be the past. We are moving forward and do things not for one, but for all.Some people are just too indoctrinated to think for themselves.
— Mary Brabham, Riviera Beach, FL
In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in communist society, the present dominates the past.
— Communist Manifesto, Chapter 2
Some people are so far out of it...
How is changing the name to Obama “doing for all”?
and it’ll be painted with rainbow colors, and lit with rainbow colored street lights- The signs will be rainbow as well, and people are free to skip along wearing princess costumes and no one will bother them
When does he go up on Mount Rushmore?
Are there radiator shops, head shops, check cashing places and gold selling places nearby?
Section 8 housing?
President Barack Obama Highway serves as a reminder that this is a city full of idiots.
How would you like to own a business along Old Dixie Hwy. and have to re-letter all your correspondence and marketing material to Barak Obama Hwy?
If I am looking online for a business and have my choice of one that isn’t located on Barak Obama Hwy. guess who is getting my business?
Two giant ears will suffice.
So the highway is simply being named for the intrinsic character of the place. Happens a lot, as posters have already noted regarding streets named MLK Jr.
A handy "tell" for out-of-towners.
They named it Hershey Highway?
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