[Jack Hydrazine]

Is ‘negrohead’ a slur?

[choctaw man]

There, now everything should be hunky-dorey...

[FlingWingFlyer]

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.

[DanielRedfoot]

well at least the Ca state government has their priorities in order...

[LibFreeOrDie]

Next up, Squaw Valley... /s

[hemogoblin]

Maybe South Dakota’s Black Hills should be renamed the “Hills of Color.”

[Dallas59]

While we're on the subject...

[jacknhoo]

Whatever makes them feel good about themselves...anything, rather than actually doing good deeds.

[CounterCounterCulture]

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?"

[muleskinner]

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.

[paulycy]

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.)

[Kimberly GG]

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.

[upchuck]

“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.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Negrohead Mountain”

LOL! I bet it had a different name years ago! Kind of like Negro Andy Canyon in NW New Mexico or “Bull shirt” springs in Nevada and “Naughty girl” meadows! AKA Bull$#!t springs and Whorehouse meadows, Nev.

[caver]

I live in Indiana. We have a cave named with the “N” word included, as well as a road in the county I live in. The road is only known by that name by old timers. No one else would know. More revisionist history. No racial intentions.

[albie]

My Mom has a 50 year old cook book called the “Ni$$er Toe Cook Book”. (cooking with brazil nuts) I’d better tell her to change the name to the “African American Toe Cook Book”!

[OrangeHoof]

Outside Austin, there’s a creek that was once called “N——r Creek”. Wonder why they called it that? It was because if you followed it east it took you to “N——r Cemetary”. The libs got them changed in the 1970s.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I don’t think it was considered a slur 100 years ago.

[TigersEye]

Excellent! These history revisions will soon allow us to deny that anything bad ever happened in America. /s

Be careful what you ask for.

[Rebelbase]

This building in my town on a traditional "black" college campus has me wonder when it's gonna get axed: