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despite the lack of help from the obama camp, Continuing Effortsof course, branding has happened anyway in somfor Confederate President Jefferson Davis was e intriguing places. In 2017, a school named POLITICS
Virginia, became Obama Elementary in a similar in 2018, J.E.B. Stuart Elemrenamed for Obama in Jackson, Mentary in Richmississippi, and ond, effort to remove honors for pro-slavery figures of the Civil Wdrawn more than 450,000 signatures urged New Obama name that can help revive a troubled insti-tution such as the Timfied historical sort. A Mforming charter school in Detroit which changed its namYork City to rename the block of Fifth Avenue that groundswell, although perhaps not of the digni-it,” school founder Bernard Parker says.chance to improve on our academics as a result of ership Academy. “Wing the namAnd once in a while, there has been a popular e last sumar. In some cases, there is equity in the e, we could have a new focus and a mer to the Barack Obame just thought that by chang-oveOn.org petition that has buktu Academy, a low-per-a Lead-
“The Obamas epitomize class, dedication to public cil Speaker Corey Johnson said in August.pant, but the city has said it won’t do that. Specifi-cally, Democratic leaders in New York feel it would came and went in 2014, politicians have considered Avenue just to troll the current Wpasses Trump Tower as President Barack H. Obama be a petty mservice and respect for the Oval Office,” City Coun-Meanwhile, in Hawaii, since that beach idea ove unbecoming of Obamhite House occu-a’s legacy.
a shaved ice treat with lemon, lime, cherry and pas-dreammemoration and a scenic overlook where Obama he enjoyed on his presidential vacations there.there is nothing bearing his name in his birth state. The closest Obama has as a tribute on the island is other suggestions—sion guava syrup dubbed the “Snowbama,” which scattered his mother’s ashes, for instance. But still, But Chang has not given up his Obama-naming. He’s now a state senator who last man airport, a birthday comonth -
markers on sites of importance to Obama’s Hawaii introduced a measure to create a series of historical life, from the apartment building where he lived with his late grandmother to the Baskin-Robbins where he scooped ice creamhis life,” Chang believes. “I hope it’ll pass and we’ll have something tangible to commemorate Obama’s residents a chance to see the places that were in yes, Sandy Beach where he surfed.“It would give visitors to our islands and local as a summer job to,
Ơupbringing here.” in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who tweets @SteveFriess.Steve Friess is a longtime freelance writer basedTO DO THAT SORT OF LEGACY ENHANCEMENT.