Posted on 10/12/2017 6:43:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
After years of debate, a U.S. government board has voted to rename Utah’s Negro Bill Canyon, overruling a recommendation by Utah officials to keep the name.
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names decided Thursday to rename it Grandstaff Canyon to get rid of an offensive name, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. The vote was 12-0, with one member declining to vote. The decision comes 16 years after the board voted to keep the name.
The new name honors black rancher and prospector William Grandstaff, whose cattle grazed there in the 1870s. “His name was Grandstaff; it was not Negro Bill,” said Wendi-Starr Brown, a member of the federal board who is Native American. “I’m pretty sure that’s not how he wanted to be addressed in life.” Brown is a member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, who represents the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the federal board. […]
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.”
The canyon is home to a popular hiking spot in Moab, the gateway to stunning, massive red rock formations. Local officials and business owners have long said the name generates frequent complaints and outcry from tourists who come from around the world, lured by the red-rock landscapes in nearby national parks. …
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“Yea, they always said he was hunged.”
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I got in 2 “Blazing Saddles” references in one thread, cool!
Lamanite Gap...
I can see why people, and not just the BLM folks, would find that archaic word offensive. Although it would be hypocritical for people who use worse words to pretend to be offended, but that is nothing new. Some people will find offense in anything but that does not mean that ordinary people who do not have a chip on their shoulder might be more comfortable with using a different name. Although, true, a “wrong,” historical name might teach more history.
So when are they going to ban Spanish and Portuguese speakers from saying “negro” (black) in their language?
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.
Grand! I'd go with that.
near Negrohead Lake, Texas 77523
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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?
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.
Does this mean leftists don’t like certain colors if they have to get rid of them?
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.
If Political Correctness was recognized as the national religion that it is, then the government would not be allowed to impose its religion on everyone this way.
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