Racial insults may be wiped off map: North Carolina place names

Raliegh News-Observer ^ | April 30, 2003 | LYNN BONNER

[stands2reason]

What about the French Broad River in NC since everyone is sick of the French? Or Big Ugly, WV, which is not PC for the comely-impaired folk? Or Intercourse, AL? Or Young Harris, GA? The old folks will get ticked off at that.....

You got here too late...

[stands2reason]

They were joking.

DUH! Ya think?

[dstarr]

It sounds like someone in the legislature has alot of spare time on their hands. This is one of the dumbest things I have heard in quite awhile.

[ladyinred]

We have a street here in my town that has an offense name. I am going to start a drive to get it renamed and the offense name taken off all of the maps. What is the street name?

CLINTON

[Jhoffa_]

Hey, did they rename "Hymietown" yet?

[visualops]

Chris Rock, comedian and actor:

No, white people can't say "nigger," but you can sing all the rap songs.


He does hold the world record for number of times using the designation "cracker".

[Ciexyz]

The State of Virginia was named for "The Virgin Queen", Elizabeth I. My goodness, someone might think of sex when they say the name "Virginia". (/sarcasm)

[Ciexyz]

Remember the candy from the the 50's and 60's called "Nigger babies", little licorice pieces? How un-PC. But as kids, we didn't think anything was wrong with it.

[eddie willers]

Keep in mind that until around the thirties, the n-word was not considered a slur...and it was no more controversial than 'black' is today.

Times change.
30 years ago I used to be gay....
Now I have to be sure to use the word 'happy'.

[Howlin]

I'm still gay.

[eddie willers]

I'm 'happy' for you.
(guys have got to be more careful)

[Howlin]

Speaking of things changing, I was really relieved today to learn from the PC police that "senior citizen" is now passe. :-)

[eddie willers]

So we can go back to 'wrinkled old fart'?

[Old Professer]

If I could find the E-Mail address for "The entertainer formerly known as Prince," I would ask him what he thinks of all this.

[TaxRelief]

DUH! Ya think?

As an experiment, for the next two months,
I am going to mark certain freepers "snappy" days on a calendar
to see if I can detect any sort of pattern.

Hmm...I wonder...

[azhenfud]

Don't know - I live here, there, in Whiteville.

[CSM]

All of that town's residents are scheduled to move to Climax, MI very soon!

[Adder]

Todd, NC. I mean, excuse me...isn't that just a bit too yuppie and "white"? I mean, would a black person feel welcome there? I don't think so. And Cherokee! Named after a native tribe! I mean, come ON!

The idiots have taken over the asylum.

[stand watie]

& maidenhead, PA too.

Free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

that one is REALLY offensive!

FRee dixie,sw