[Redmen4ever]

I kind of like Negro Bill. If he was a frontiersman, he probably did have a nickname. Are they now going to change the name of Deaf Smith County, Texas?

[piasa]

“His name was Grandstaff; it was not Negro Bill,” said Wendi-Starr Brown,

Well, this is probably true... but are they sure Grandstaff wasn't a slave name adopted from a plantation owner? Did Bill ever complain about the nickname and did he really like his last name? Or are they just assuming? Seems to me they aren't doing it for Bill, they are doing it because some no doubt snow white foreign tourists are uncomfortable.

[Trillian]

Does this mean leftists don’t like certain colors if they have to get rid of them?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Wonder if they will do the same for “NEGRO ANDY CANYON” down in New Mexico. On Middle Mesa at the San Juan Reservoir.
Fifty years ago the US government renamed lots of areas of the west.
Whorehouse Meadows became Naughty Girl Meadows.
Bulls**t Springs became Bullshirt springs.

[LouAvul]

the Utah Martin Luther King Jr. Commission called the name “blatant racism.”

Yet, if I sent a check to the "United Negro College Fund" I'm sure they'd return it because I used the word "negro" on the "payable to" line.

[Impala64ssa]

From a NYC Metro area Esso (now Exxon) road map from 1938

This lake is approx 30 miles NW of NYC, probably named as such because of the "Jackson Whites" who lived there since the 1800's. They are of African and Caucasian descent to varying degrees and also have lineage to the Ramapo, Munsee and Lenape Indians. Just before WW2 it was renamed Negro Pond, since the the 50's it's been known as Potake Lake.

[Flick Lives]

Don’t let the SJWs know what Grand Tetons or Cajon Pass means.

[Repeal 16-17]

The NAACP said the name is not offensive and preserves the history of the site, while the Utah Martin Luther King Jr. Commission called the name “blatant racism.”

So a group of D.C. beaurcrats decided to be the tiebreaker. No surprise the beaurcrats decided to go the PC route.

[beaversmom]

I’ve driven past Negro Bill many times when heading down to Moab. Grandstaff sounds too bland, IMO. Everything has to be sanitized and without character. :(

From Wiki:

Negro Bill Canyon (called Nigger Bill Canyon from the late 19th century until the 1960s) is a canyon in southeast Utah. It is part of the Colorado River watershed. Its stream flows directly into the main channel of the Colorado River within Moab Canyon.

[tumblindice]

[cynwoody]

It's Granstaff, not Grandstaff.

According to the Wikipedia, the canyon was renamed once before, in the 1960s.

[Ken Regis]

The BGN changed a lot of offensive place names in the 60s and 70s. I’m guessing “Negro Bill” was one that was changed back then.

[x]

The canyon was named after William Grandstaff, a mixed-race cowboy, who prospected and ran cattle in the desert canyon in the late 1870s with a Canadian trapper named "Frenchie".

I guess the compromise, "Let's Call it Mulatto Bill" legislation didn't pass ...

[taxesareforever]

They could combine it with Hollywood and call it “GrabMyStaff Canyon”.

[libh8er]

Why not honor Civil Rights marcher John Lewis and name it Negro John Canyon ?

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

Negro superseded colored as the most polite word for African Americans at a time when black was considered more offensive....n particular, this update concerns the definitions of racial/ethnic categories.

Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino origin.
White Americans.
Black and African Americans. African-American is a Race... so it did not exist before 1776? he he