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Century-Old Slur Erased From Santa Monica Mountains Maps
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| February 21, 2010
Posted on 02/21/2010 2:58:33 PM PST by Steelfish
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posted on
02/21/2010 2:58:33 PM PST
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
To: Steelfish
There, now everything should be hunky-dorey...
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:02:56 PM PST
by
choctaw man
(Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
To: Steelfish
Negrohead Mountain is a “slur”? Sounds like somebody has been doing too many drugs and has too much time on their hands. I live in the White Mountains. I wonder if that makes me a racist.
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:03:51 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(If the CIA and NASA are going to "monitor climate change", why the hell do we need the EPA?)
To: Steelfish
well at least the Ca state government has their priorities in order...
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:08:19 PM PST
by
DanielRedfoot
(What a fool believes, No wise man has the power to reason away)
To: Steelfish
Next up, Squaw Valley... /s
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:09:30 PM PST
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
To: Steelfish
Maybe South Dakota’s Black Hills should be renamed the “Hills of Color.”
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:09:31 PM PST
by
hemogoblin
(Obama - The Potentate of Parasites)
To: hemogoblin
Dakotas
Hey isn’t that a racial slur?
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:11:39 PM PST
by
Jolla
To: Steelfish
While we're on the subject...
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:12:22 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: Steelfish
Whatever makes them feel good about themselves...anything, rather than actually doing good deeds.
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:12:48 PM PST
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:15:13 PM PST
by
pillut48
("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
To: Steelfish
What had long been designated on "Negrohead Mountain" on official maps is now "Ballard Mountain" in honor of John Ballard, who worked as a blacksmith...
Can we still say "blacksmith?"
To: DanielRedfoot
well at least the Ca state government has their priorities in order... "...said Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who helped nearby residents win approval of the name change with the U.S. Geological Survey"
Sounds like it was the county working with the Federal Government. The State Government gets involved in the damnedest things, but this wasn't one of them.
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:16:29 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
To: Jack Hydrazine
It was referred to as “ni—er head” by the locals in the old days. The map makers changed it to “negro head” and now the “head” reference is no more. Suits me.
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:17:51 PM PST
by
Misterioso
(To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. -- Ayn Rand)
To: Steelfish
Oh please, another political correctness story from California.
Nothing like wasting ink on this story when the head of Calif. Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, deserves to be run out of the state.
Hey, LA Times, do a real story once in awhile.
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:17:57 PM PST
by
muleskinner
("You know the Germans always make good stuff')
To: Jack Hydrazine
These IDIOT feel good PC merchants have entirely too much time on their hands.
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:18:35 PM PST
by
jesseam
(Been there, done that)
To: Steelfish
As far as alleged slurs go, I have yet to go to a mexican restaurant on either coast that doesn’t have a “Speedy Gonzalez” dish. (Well, maybe a couple but not many.)
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:18:38 PM PST
by
paulycy
(Demand Constitutionality.)
To: Steelfish
I’m 52 years old and in my lifetime, have gone from saying ‘negro’, to ‘colored’, to ‘african american’ to ‘black’. I don’t know who keeps changing the PC rules, but I wish they’d make up their minds before I get to old to keep up. My 94 year old mother-in-law still says ‘colored’...she has no clue.
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:19:13 PM PST
by
Kimberly GG
(PALIN SUPPORTS PATH TO CITIZENSHIP AMNESTY and PROGRESSIVE RHINO MCCAIN.)
To: Steelfish
“Negrohead” is a slur? What about Whitehead? I have friends with that last name. Maybe they should change it? Nah, that would be racist.
What about butthead? You know, that negrohead in the White House.
Political correctness will destroy our country.
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:19:15 PM PST
by
upchuck
(The horse is in the pasture. The barn door is wide-open. Obama wants to know who made the hinges.)
To: jacknhoo
You Christians are so full of love for your fellow man.
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posted on
02/21/2010 3:19:17 PM PST
by
Misterioso
(To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. -- Ayn Rand)
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