WASHINGTON (AP) –
President Barack Obama will change the name of North America’s tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, the White House said Sunday, a major symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives on the eve of the president’s historic visit to Alaska.
No dog in this fight. Denali may be the appropriate name of the mountain. But this guy sure will do anything for diversity…
It will be some federal workers career to change everything in the Federal system.
“Dog in the fight”, not going to name a mountain after you anytime soon you insensitive speciesist.
Never should have been renamed Mt. McKinley to begin with… so… whatever.
Having just been to Denali national park earlier this year… and considering that all the park employees, rangers, locals, and pretty much everyone in Alaska (native or not) already calls it Denali… it makes sense. I think the only time I heard it called Mt. McKinley was when someone said something to the effect of “That over there is the tallest mountain in North America: Denali. It’s also sometimes called Mt. McKinley.”
Please quit changing and revising the history it took me a literal lifetime to learn.
This is just correcting it, it was renamed to Mt. McKinley on a whim to begin with despite strong objections. but Ohio through its weight around…
I don’t have a problem with it. At least he’s calling it by the name the locals already use, and not calling it Mt. Obama or Mt. Lenin or something.
In other news… I’m renaming my wife’s truck from Denali to Mt McKinley.
What’s Ohio got to do with it?
Birthplace of President McKinley.
We can thank our lucky stars he did not rename Mt. McKinley Mt. Caitlin Jenner.
Well…since we’re renaming things, I guess Chicago should be Obamagrad.
I don’t care what the locals call it. It’s Mt. McKinley. It was in my US History book and I’d prefer we leave things be.
Then it should be Denali, because McKinley was a change.
We can solve this easily: Drill into the mountain. If we find it to be made of chocolate éclair, it is McKinley. If not, it reverts back to its original name.
You know what. I don’t care anymore.
I’m just glad to hear he didn’t re-re-name it after himself . . .
My first thought. But really, this is some that shouldn’t be done by any President. It should have happened in 1975 and been a matter of the Alaska state legislature. How a Ohio congressman had any say in the matter is beyond me.
That is TOO funny. We want pics of the badge change! At least he is not renaming it Mt. Ferguson, or Trayvon.
It’s not so much Obama is making the name change, it’s why he’s doing it. McKinley was white and Republican. And symbolizes everything he hates
Bingo! Obumbo doesn’t do anything on a whim…every move he makes is calculated…
This and LOL