Posted on 08/31/2020 3:25:21 PM PDT by Twotone
The residents of a Whitefish neighborhood surrounding a pleasant lake with a racist name filed documents in Flathead County District Court earlier this month to officially rename it Lost Loon Lake.
The petition, submitted by the City of Whitefish on behalf of 12 of the 21 lakeshore property owners, is the latest development in a years-long effort to change the name of Lost Coon Lake, citing coon’s use as an offensive slur for African-Americans. And that name, according to court filings, was a “compromise” solution after an initiative began in the 1980s to rename what was then (N-Word) Lake.
“Locals and visitors alike consider the name Lost Coon Lake extremely offensive, as its history and meaning are easily discovered,” the city wrote in the court filing.
Court documents cite Wikipedia and the book “Stump Town to Ski Town” that note the lake’s original name.
The 61-acre lake is adjacent to Whitefish Lake Golf Club and has no public access. The golf course has already been referring to it as Lost Loon Lake on its course map and other signage, according to the filing. WLGC also installed a nesting platform for loons, an aquatic bird found in Northwest Montana, to create a welcoming habitat. Loons had previously been using the lake as a feeding area.
(Excerpt) Read more at flatheadbeacon.com ...
Gefilte fish.
The Loons have been found alrighty!
Found Some Moonbats Lake
Shhhhh!
Don’t tell the morons what the word GOLF means!
Gee can white settlement Texas be next?
Had a racoon that came into my back yard every evening looking for food scraps.
Named him Sean Coonery.
Global Oscillations at Low Frequencies
Is that so controversial!? :)
I thought you were about to discuss the term for a female dog.
Whew. Now you can go on posting. Ain’t free speech grand?
Wait until they find out the team mascot for Hereford Tx is the “Whitefaces”. It comes from what some call Hereford cattle, but...
WHITEfish neighborhood? Sounds racist to me.
FLATHEAT County? Sounds racist to me. (White man talk for the Salish aboriginal peoples.)
Lost Coon Lake - Clearly politically correct. But if they want to change the name, they should revert to the earlier name for the body of water. Per Wikipedia: “Lost Coon Lake was originally known as “N****r Lake” “ (Redaction to avoid causing vapors in our more Woke Freepers.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Coon_Lake
Female dog is ok.. every race deals with bitches !!
I’ve caught many Black Rock Cod during a fishing outing. Does that make me a bad person? It seemed so innocent at the time. I’m so confused....
Whew again. I heard payback is such ....an inconvenience.
Maybe Whitey Herzog the old Cardinals (and other teams) manager set a precedent suing somebody. He's around, age 88 now.
But first sue Elton John. He's loaded. 2020 US dollar estimate $500 million.
Honky Cat
.....
They said, get back, honky cat Better get back to the woods Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways And, oh, the change is gonna do me good
No, it makes the rock bad. You're okay.
Fishing saying:
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.
Teach a man how to fish and he'll sit in a boat all day drinking.
Jesus,
Isn’t it time yet?
Pretty please?
What state?
So they want to rename Lost Coon Lake after the Dems.
“””Up next...
Coon Rapids, Minnesota””””””””””””””””
I’m really surprised that haven’t done it yet.
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