Posted on 10/02/2011 8:14:14 AM PDT by Staff Of Moses
Paint Creek, Tex. In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his familys secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.
Niggerhead, it read.
The name of this particular parcel did not change for years after it became associated with Rick Perry, first as a private citizen, then as a state official and finally as Texas governor.
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Isn’t castration a little extreme? Oh, sorry...I read it wrong.
Your peddling the Compost's RACE CARD HERE ??
Your just as sick as the Obama state media and their race card desperation !
It is not meant as a term of disrespect.
I think Cain is making a big issue out of nothing and it may bite him in the rear.
We used to call “Brazil Nuts” “’n—’ toes.” That’s simply what they were called in my family. Shocking, huh? But that’s the way the world was, even in good Christian families and communities, once upon a time.
I went to high school in Greenville, Texas, where there was a sign across mainstreet and on the (get that, “the”) water tower that said, “The blackest land and the whitest people.” http://www.amazon.com/Blackest-Land-Whitest-People-Greenville/dp/1425944256 This is a town that integrated its schools in 1970,just before my family moved there. I don’t think they took the sign down until the early ‘70’s and didn’t paint the tower until later.
You don’t celebrate this sort of history, but you can’t condemn someone for renting a hunting lease with a rock on it, no matter how ugly the name.
It's now called Michelle Obama Bay.
Rev Wright’s statement of “God Damn America” and Obama’s 20+ years as a member is far, far bigger issue than this nonsense!
I don’t care who you support or what you think of Perry, our falling on ourselves like dogs is ridiculous.
Meanshile, Romney walks towards his coronation.
Niggerhead is an old term to describe a large round rock sticking up from the surface of a logging road, used by loggers and log truck drivers. I think there was something that rigging was tied off to and it was also called a niggerhead.
I’ve heard it used for other things too, but it’s been so many years that I don’t remember what it stood for.
I do recall that Brazilian nuts were once called Nigger toes.
Who knew Perry already had the nomination. Gee, sorry, I thought there were others still in the running.
Guess they’ll be after anyone who has friends in Louisiana that are coonasses next.....
I’ll admit to using the term nigger riggin but it IMO and experience was based on the term “niggardly “ itself.... as in not doing it right or lazy way of fixin something quickly.
Only then do we get we consider why this hunting lease was named Niggerhead......:o)
“Niggerhead” or “nigger head” was used as a name for all sorts of things, including commercial products, places, plants and animals, as well as a colloquial technical term in industry, mining and seafaring.
Flora and fauna nomenclatures include the word nigger. The Arizonan nigger-head cactus, Echinocactus polycephalus is a round, cabbage-sized plant covered with large, crooked thorns. The colloquial names for echinacea (coneflower) are “Kansas niggerhead” and “Wild niggerhead”. In Oceania, the “niggerhead termite” (Nasutitermes graveolus) is a native of Australia....
Just my opinion on the matter....:o)
Hope yer well WD !!
Stay safe !
Cain is now playing the race card.
That is the final straw, I want nothing to do with Cain.
I guess they never ate brazil nuts.
Indeed. And for that matter, what was the political tilt of Texas - and most of the South - when that rock was allegedly painted? Yeah, the media won't go near that detail, not even on a dare.
If anyone has seen pictures of those knobs sticking up in the tundra, you will immediately know what is am talking about, for when I lived there they were known almost universally in AK by that term.
Wiki describes the term as: “hard tussocks in the tundra, esp. in Alaska”
First, he says he couldn't vote for Perry in the general, but he would gladly vote for Romney!, now he plays the race card on Perry.
I am DONE with Cain!
Outside of Austin, there is a creek that used to be called “Nigger Creek”. Why was it called “Nigger Creek”? Because if you followed it, it took you to “Nigger Cemetary”. Both were re-named decades ago but history is history.
Cain is now playing the race card.
That is the final straw, I want nothing to do with Cain.
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Yeah, I *heard* about that. The mister set about checking weather and FOX news site this morning, then he started cussin’....then I saw the big headline. *sigh*
I had so appreciated that Cain was one of the ones that didn’t attack, he stood on his potion and ideas. I didn’t like his 999, but I didn’t like him after he changed.
I am Perry, Newt leaning (recently scratched Cain from my list)but with the racist slinging, Perry is done. Makes me sick. I would rather vote for Romney then Cain now.
I'm still waiting to see a picture of the offending rock. Got one?
I rather eat my own liver than vote for Romney.
...calling Cain a sleazy opportunist race baiter. Your reaction is overly emotional and uninformed.
Cain was asked a direct question about the Perry Rock story during an interview this morning on Fox News Sunday. Educate yourself. Watch the interview or read the transcript.
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