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To: Red Badger
So we are going to re-rename Mt. Denali back to Mt. McKinley?

Following this “logic,” wouldn’t we have to stop using offensive native names for all places? There are probably a million such place names in the USA. Here are a few common place names offensively derived from Indian words.

Alabama: may come from Choctaw meaning "thicket-clearers" or "vegetation-gatherers."

Alaska: corruption of Aleut word meaning "great land" or "that which the sea breaks against."

Arizona: from the Indian "Arizonac," meaning "little spring" or "young spring."

Arkansas: from the Quapaw Indians.

Let’s go one step further. Using an alphabet is a racist, evil, white male, hegemonic construct. It seriously demeans the natives who never developed an alphabet. We need to abandon the use of alphabets and start learning pictographs. Here is our first new lesson. Commence using immediately…


45 posted on 01/16/2023 6:40:44 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Black....... African Heritage peoples unable to cope in a white world


46 posted on 01/16/2023 6:42:19 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality daythis piece is )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

GM will have a problem.....................


53 posted on 01/16/2023 6:49:07 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I live in Sioux County, near Sioux City and Sioux Falls.

Lots of Sioux names in nw Iowa. I always that the naming might have been part of the treaty agreements made to show honor to them.


91 posted on 01/16/2023 9:08:11 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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