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 coons 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 lakes 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 ...
Unlike the elusive Allegheny whitefish, which has a completely different meaning.
Here is what a whitefish is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_whitefish
It has NOTHING to do with race!
These people need to get over it!!!!
They’ll never stop the locals from calling it whatever they want.
They’ve tried to get that one changed several times, with no success. I suppose, with enough effort it will happen sometime.
If you associate the word coon with a race of people instead of an animal, whos the real racist?
Like the old Mafia Sicilians I say about Jagger “Mick, you mean the one who sued to stop Trump from using his songwriters’ songs at his rallies? That bum. That POS? I have no Mick Jagger in my life. He is dead to me. I will never mention his name again. He is over.”
No offense to you intended.
Same with (Paul McCartney) who danced and sang at a fundraiser in the Hamptons for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and then shameless hugged the evil wretch. I have no McCartney in my life. I shun his name now.
He’s gone to me. Dead.
Now that I think about it, I only saw white people when we visited Whitefish.
I am sure it was a coincidence... :-)
This reminds me of PETA objecting to the name ‘Fishkill NY’, without understanding what the name means.
I guess we’ll have to change the name of the Maine Coon Cat.
(A little Black girl once looked at me askance, after she asked what kind of cat that was in the pet store. I explained it to her - and later we met elsewhere in the shopping center, and she smiled at me.)
Education: It’s a Good Thing.
It will happen soon with all of the outrage gaining momentum.
Shh... don’t disturb the dialog with facts.
Be careful. That’s Indian country and they might not like changing the name. I forgot the tribal name, but it is a wealthy tribe with a casino and quite an income from other sources, as I understand.
LOL..but true
The original name of the lake was “Cocoon Lake.” Nasty folks called it “Ninigger Lake.” And, were there, ever, slaves in Montana?
Williams sang, “Coon Sliver,” I think...
Up in BC they dealt with the situation by simply shortening the name.
You can get a job there!
https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobsearch?empl=Nig+Creek+Farms+Ltd.&mid=22338
Whitefish-Blackfish, meh!
Ping!
In early episodes of MASH, wasn’t there a black surgeon that they called “Spearchucker”? Bet they canned those episodes.
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