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To: SoFloFreeper

I had to think for awhile about who that was and now I remember. A bit before my time but I’m just not in the habit of de-memorializing anything. Where I live, there are streets named after people and I have no idea who the hell they were no do I really care but I don’t lead petition drives to remove their names either.

I realize sometimes there are name changes. Somewhere nearby there is a creek that, at one time, was named “Nigger Creek”. You may ask why anyone would name a body of water like that or why it became popular but it was so named because, if you followed the creek, it led you to “Nigger Cemetery”.


22 posted on 07/31/2014 8:34:45 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: OrangeHoof
Less than a mile from my home was a five mile road named, Nigger Road. In the 1980's the Tennessee mapmakers went pc and change the name to Negro Road. This last map revision has named the road, Cotton Gin Road, eliminating the reference to the people that live there completely.
23 posted on 07/31/2014 8:42:40 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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