Posted on 06/13/2014 4:01:04 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
A northern New Mexico town council has voted to change the name of Kit Carson Park over concerns by critics that the famed scout and explorer was cruel to American Indians.
The Taos Town Council passed a resolution Tuesday to rename the downtown park Red Willow following a presentation from activists, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
Council member Fritz Hahn said one American Indian activist felt uncomfortable in the park, which is named after someone who egregiously hurt her people. "We have got to heal the wreckage of the past, and Kit Carson is part of that," Hahn said
Carson, who died in in 1868, is buried in the cemetery at the park and his name is all over Taos. He largely is known as an explorer, trapper, soldier and American Indian agent.
But Carson was ordered by the U.S. Army to relocate around 8,000 Navajo men, women and children 300 miles from Arizona to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on what's called the "Long Walk." An estimated 200 Navajos died from cold and starvation after traveling in brutal and harsh winter conditions for almost two months.
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Johnny Carson must have felt honored.
As for the one Indian who complained about the name of the Park, you’ve done more damage to the American Indian than Carson did because you’ve made me not give a damn any more (and I am going to be involved in some Indian affairs in the future).
Washington Redskins forever. Or in the alternative the Washington Foreskins.
Daniel Sterling: At least he had the balls to tell his prostitute mistress to keep her promiscuity in check.
NBA commissioner Silver. A little Hitler without the moustache.
NO MORE CASINOS FOR INDIANS. Let them get a job from the Obama employment program for Native American, transgendered polygamous Democrats, at minimum wage.
I’m tired of all this PC crap. We need to take the libs and leftists on, head-on, and kick their marxist asses back to Moscow, Havana, Peking and Hanoi.
This is our country and we are going to take it back!
Actually, only 200 out of 8,000 is not a bad number
for that place and time, surprising really.
I was recently listening to a 1930’s radio show on Kit Carson/ frontier heroes on Sirius XM Radio Classics and thought that show would NEVER be made today.
This reminds me of when New Orleans deleted the name of George Washington school.> School officials didn’t want a school named after someone who owned slaves. Presumably it was hurting the self esteem of black students. The school was renamed after some allegedly historic African king, which greatly boosted self esteem among black students. No word on whether this move helped student achievement in one of America’s worst performing school districts.
one American Indian activist felt uncomfortable in the parkBut not uncomfortable enough to move out of her air-conditioned home and sleep in a teepee.
“Do I hear any objections over naming America after Amerigo Vespucci?”
Yes! We should have named it Vespuccia!
“got to heal the wreckage of the past, and Kit Carson is part of that,”
Reparations are in the mail.
I’m going to go to the park and tell them that I’m uncomfortable with the new name. I’ll think of a victim-like reason.
We will soon name things like they do in China: People’s Park #10. Shanghai Railroad Station #2. So on...
Someday the name America is going to be changed.
Hehehehehehehehe.......George Washington Carver....Hehehehehehehehe”
Wow, we have a Kir Carson Pass here in California. Maybe we can get it re-named for Martin Luther King. Then no one will be able to use it because it will become a Black Ghetto. Or better still, name it after one of the Indian Casino Managers.
Red Willow... brings back horrible memories of being whipped bloody with willow switches.
The horror. The horror.
(fall down and start shaking, blood curdling screams)
Let’s start fixing history by documenting every Indian slaughter of settlers ...and other Indians too.
And rename the Grand Tetons because the fems find it offensive.
Well, then, why not name a park in your hometown Adolf Hitler Plaza? What a very stupid question you have asked.
I don’t suppose Indian people are thrilled with your racist hatred and crap, boy. Why don’t you and your people go back to what ever country you came from?
Red Willow?
Doesn’t that mean burnished skeeknee people’s?
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