Mayor: New high school won't be named after President Obama

Chicago tribune ^ | John Byrne, Juan Perez Jr. and Dana Ferguson,

[Morgana]

Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed off Thursday from naming a new elite high school after President Barack Obama amid ongoing criticism from African-Americans who felt the honor inappropriate for a school slated for a wealthy, predominantly white part of the Near North Side.

Instead of naming the new school after his former boss, the mayor indicated he would consider other names for the selective enrollment high school set to be built near the site of the former Cabrini-Green public housing project just northwest of downtown.

[Yorlik803]

The Pittsburgh Public Schools named a school after King Barak.
What are they going to do if Obama gets Impeached and thrown out? Will they change the name to Obama The Martyr school.

[Caipirabob]

“Choom Gang Prepatory” didn’t cut it either I suppose...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Gene Shepherd claimed to have attended the Warren G. Harding School. There is a Nixon School in Sudbury, MA. (Named for Revolutionary War General John Nixon.)

[Pearls Before Swine]

Maybe the citizens of the predominantly white community didn't think it was such an honor. /S

[Lawgvr1955]

Obama is no Porgy Tirebiter!

[depressed in 06]

OdumBO high rung a little to close to the truth.

[Liberty Valance]

How about naming it, “Commie Martyrs High School”...

Thats Communist Martyrs High School you whippersnapper!

[KarlInOhio]

The Obama Public School must be on the city's Martin Luther King Avenue.

[Gay State Conservative]

So it’ll be named after Bill Ayers,the *other* champion of Chicago’s royalty.