This sign is on a building at a black college in my town. I figure it's only a matter of time before it's removed.
Posted on 03/04/2005 11:07:29 AM PST by esryle
ATLANTA -- Some South Georgia legislators are working to rename a little-known creek that evokes a racially charged past.
A resolution introduced in the House Thursday would rename Negro Branch creek in Brooks County. The creek isn't well known, but the name is listed on geographical charts of the county.
County commissioners decided the creek should be renamed, but they found it's not as simple of calling it something new. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names must approve a change, and locals thought a state resolution would help speed the process.
"They had some complaints from local citizens about the creek name. It was being used as a slur," said Rep. Ellis Black, D-Valdosta, who represents Brooks County.
Black's resolution calls for the creek to renamed Pride Branch creek, a name suggested by local high school students. The resolution, like most local pieces of legislation, is unlikely to encounter any opposition.
Negro does mean black in spanish. The term has just gained bad publicity. It is not the word, it is how it is used.
This sign is on a building at a black college in my town. I figure it's only a matter of time before it's removed.
I recall seeing an establishment there with a big sign on the roof which said "S*it House". I think it was somewhere in the Kamakura area. I always regret not having gotten a photo of it.
Why don't they "re-tool" the Spanish language while they are at it?
The word for black in Spanish is "negro", pronounced "NAY-grow".
Example: long black hair is "pelo negro largo" (literal hair black long).
Well shoot, why don't the liberals/Marxists just outlaw the Spanish language altogether and demand Ebonics become the UN mandated language of planet earth?
my favorite was "Oso Negro" vodka. (Black Bear) it was only 60 proof and wow! did it sneak right up on you.
Some years ago, they went over the Texas maps to eliminate all the impolite racial place names. They weren't stretching any points. Some of those names were outright offensive. I don't think we lost any important historical associations because of it.
That is not racial; that is not "offensive". It simply is the WORD.
right-like the vodka i cited. But the ones on the texas maps were not inoffensive. Even PC has its place-(sometimes but not very often.)
Similar thing with the Hanibal Missouri Twain markers. There was a sign about N-Word Jim's landing or something. A friend visited there several years ago and saw that they had done a very ineffective job of tryint to scrub out the n-word.
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