| spurgeonryan said: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/us/mount-mckinley-will-be-renamed-denali.html?_r=0
So...if he hates the name United States should he just up and change back to its original name of New world or West indies? Crazy! |
It should have never been changed to begin with. McKinley had absolutely nothing to do with the mountain or the state of Alaska. The name was changed purely for political purposes. Alaska has been fighting to restore the correct name for DECADES.
Would you like to see them continue to waste time in congress over this? Why should people in Ohio (or any other part of the US for that matter) get to trump Alaska in the naming of their mountain? Shouldn't Alaska have the final say in what their mountain is named? Aren't Republican's all about state's rights? If McKinley is so important to Ohio, shouldn't they just build a monument to him instead of renaming something completely unrelated in a different state?
How the name was actually changed:
A January 2015 bill submitted by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (R) re-proposed renaming North America's highest peak as Denali. In June 2015 testimony to Congress, the National Park Service's associate director stated that the NPS "has no objection to adopting the name of Denali for Mt. McKinley".
On August 30, 2015, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced that the mountain would be renamed Denali, under authority of federal law which permits the Secretary of the Interior to name geographic features if the Board of Geographic Names does not act within a "reasonable" period of time. In media interviews, Jewell cited the board's failure to act on the state's four-decade-old request, saying "I think any of us would think that 40 years is an unreasonable amount of time." Trevor Burrus, a constitutional legal scholar at the Cato Institute, said that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, which Congress passed, changed the mountain's name to Denali, and Congress has yet to change it back to McKinley
