Swastika, New York, Is Keeping Its Name

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https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/09/23/915307315/swastika-new-york-is-keeping-its-name
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Swastika, New York, Is Keeping Its Name

September 23, 2020 5:02 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
JULIE RITCHEY

Michael Alcamo lives in New York City but loves cycling through the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York, with their tiny towns and hamlets and historical cemeteries.

He was on a trip like this, winding through a remote stretch this summer, when he noticed something else, a small brown street sign with the name "Swastika."

At a time when symbols and place names with links to white supremacy are being debated across the U.S., Alcamo found the name of the unincorporated hamlet he had crossed into unsettling.

"So the effect was just jarring and profoundly, I thought, disrespectful," he said, especially to the veterans of World War II with graves nearby.

[CaptYossarian]

1. Swastika, NY had an active post office from 1913 to 1958.

Now we know where the next rally will be.

[whistler162]

2. Interesting...

I have actually traveled through Swastika, Ontario on the Ontario Northland Railway on the way to Moosonee.