Grandstaff?
Does that mean it’s true what they say about Negro Bill?
I suspect the canyon has had a name change before this, considering the common language back then.
I imagine that so long as one said it friendly-like he didn’t mind. It probably served to distinguish him from all of the non-Negro Bills around at the time.
Good for the NAACP.
That name just makes me laugh.
Complainers should just be glad they haven’t been calling it
“N***r Bill Canyon”. That was the common slang back then.
So when does the government vote to rename the United Negro College Fund?
More unconstitutional power grabs by the illegal feds. Nowhere does the Constitution give the feds authority to name much less own state lands.
When will We the People take back OUR country from the illegal tyrants in Washington?
I guess I better clean out the woodpile
We had a similar issue with Negro Mountain in Western Maryland; changing the name was voted down. Even some Black people, including historians, want to keep it because it honors a man’s bravery:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_Mountain
Grandstaff?.....its just another neutral name without meaning....
my opinion is certainly "wrong" but I think some of these traditional names tell more of America's story than some neutral name that signifies little of the history...
We used to hunt an area of the Cascades near Mt. Adams in Washington State called Ni**erhead Creek back in the 60’s. It was on the map but subsequently renamed Yellowjacket Creek - back in the early logging days, a ni**erhead referred to the giant steam donkey winches used in timber operations and other industries.
Bump
Sounds like they are trying to erase the great history of the black cowboy of the old west. Most of the cowboys were blacks - or Negros as they were called then.
Bass Reeves, one of the most famed U.S. Marshals was a Negro. There seems to be overwhelming evidence that he is the one that the Lone Ranger was modeled after.
Hmm - I wonder if calling a Negro back then a “black man” would be offensive. Like calling a white person “pale face”.
FROM THE WEB:
The word Negro was adopted from Spanish and Portuguese and first recorded from the mid 16th century. It remained the standard term throughout the 17th–19th centuries and was used by prominent black American campaigners such as W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington in the early 20th century. Since the Black Power movement of the 1960s, however, when the term black was favoured as the term to express racial pride, Negro (together with related words such as Negress) has dropped out of favour and now seems out of date or even offensive in both British and US English
Lamanite Gap...
There is a cross-road in Hanover County Virginia not too far from Patrick Henry’s home that used to be called Negro Foot. It was named for the foot of a slave that had been posted at the crossroads as a warning to other slaves thinking of escaping.
History is not always pretty.
(I still have an old map with it labeled)
I would find the cultural cleansers less annoying if they devoted the same kind of attention and energies to cleaning up rap and hip hop music!! Virtually all the uses of the N-word I have ever heard or seen in my lifetime are from those sources, not from any white people. [not saying no whites ever use the word, but that no whites that I KNOW ever use it, at least not around me, ever]
Soon— the United Grandstaff College Fund?
Wherever he is, I reckon Bill isn’t too happy about this,
Eastern Oregon had a place where ladies would come from some of the establishments in Nevada for a few days every so often. It was called Whore House Flats. Decades ago this same group in Washington renamed it Naughty Girl Flats. I swear. People in the old Oregon when they still had testicles raised such a fuss that they renamed it back. I expect now it’s been removed completely.
Chula Vista Bayou in Fort Walton Beach used to be named, well you can guess I am sure.
near Negrohead Lake, Texas 77523
https://goo.gl/maps/uwhRXpQuF8u