Posted on 07/31/2014 7:25:41 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
I had to think for awhile about who that was and now I remember. A bit before my time but I’m just not in the habit of de-memorializing anything. Where I live, there are streets named after people and I have no idea who the hell they were no do I really care but I don’t lead petition drives to remove their names either.
I realize sometimes there are name changes. Somewhere nearby there is a creek that, at one time, was named “Nigger Creek”. You may ask why anyone would name a body of water like that or why it became popular but it was so named because, if you followed the creek, it led you to “Nigger Cemetery”.
Within the city of Minneapolis, there is Lake Calhoun. It’s one of the more popular lakes on Minneapolis’s Chain Of Lakes.
When Minnesota was still a territory, the Secretary of War John C Calhound sent a party to map out the areas surrounding Fort Snelling, a military outpost on the Upper Mississippi River.
The surveyors named this lake “Lake Calhoun”. Calhoun, as we all know, was an advoacte of nullification and states rights - especially involving the slavery issue.
In short, many liberal activists in Minneapolis have tried to push the Minneapolis Park Board into re-naming this lake. They feel that the lake should not be named after someone who was so supportive of slavery. Amazingly, the Park Board has not yet touched this issue.
This type of political correctness can be found in just about any state these days.
Perhaps in tribute to so many in the Black entertainment industry and sports they could rename it "Wife Beater Road".
Thank u! As soon as the name Author G was read some lost memory came to mind re a confrontation on air with a participant of his show. And, yes, AG was not a very likeable person. At times the thought of beating him with his ukulele did come to mind.
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