Posted on 06/20/2015 9:05:28 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A VICTORIAN council has been ridiculed for removing the name of a hill called after an early stockman whose name was deemed racially derogatory.
The Office of Geographic Names ordered Mansfield Council to remove or change the name of Jim Crow Hill.
It said Jim Crow refers to an 1828 US minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, where a white man blackened his face to resemble a poor Negro.
It claimed the term has been widely used in Australia to disparage black people.
But locals are angry at the decision, claiming Jim Crow was an early stockman who had a hut on the hill.
The council, located in the foothills of the Victorian Alps, contacted the local Taungurung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, who confirmed the name was offensive.
This was despite research by the council which found records of a man named Jim Crow with some connection to the Benalla and Mansfield district in the 1880s.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
‘Stockman’ is an Australian term with a somewhat similar meaning to ‘Cowboy’ in the US - a worker on a farm (station in Australian parlance) who manages the stock - often cattle, although stockman could be applied to any livestock such as sheep.
Was it your Country or ours that first introduced political correctness?
Call it Political Correctness Hill.
Stalin and the Soviets, actually.
So call it James Crow Hill
Call it Mecca-Medina and only muslims can go there.
Problem solved.
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