LA County urges name change for Negrohead Mountain
Maybe they should call it "Mt. Obama":
"County leaders on Tuesday approved a resolution asking a federal agency to rename Negrohead Mountain near Malibu in honor of a black pioneer who settled in the area in the 19th century. The peak would be known as Ballard Mountain, after John Ballard, if the U.S. Geological Survey's Board on Geographic Names grants the request by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
"Black history is all of our history ... and this an opportunity to celebrate that," Moorpark College history instructor Patty Colman told supervisors during a board meeting. The switch would "honor the man, as a man, for the contributions he made," said Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who made the name-change motion.
The name of the mountain, at 2,031 feet the tallest in the area, originally contained a racial slur [n*ggerhead?] that even was found on early government topographic maps. It was changed to "negro" in the 1960s. Other settlers are believed to have been thinking of Ballard when they named the mountain. "It really was slander of a courageous and remarkable guy," said Nicholas Noxon, a local resident who lobbied for the Ballard Mountain name change.
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I really don't see an issue with this one. Personally, I would like to have the man's name recognized for his achievement.
The stated history bears this out as well, with others contemplating the name change in the past, so why not name it after Mr. Ballard? He deserves the credit.
then i guess they might want to look at the name of some of the mountains between tennesee and ny... there is a nigger mountain
crest of the Blue Ridge into Ashe County, surveying the New River valley from the crest of Mount Jefferson, then called Negro (or "Nigger") Mountain
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Two mountains, Nigger Mountain (now called Mount Jefferson) and Mulatto Mountain, were named for African Americans. Nigger Mountain, according to local ...
the truth is that the sign does not say mount jefferson on it.. ther are also such trails and ways.
the ONLY people that seem top care are the hypersensitive... i like to jokingly refer to them as Langoliers who have come to cleanse reality (a loose reference to a S King story/movie en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langoliers )...
I wonder when feminists will call for the renaming of the Teton range and Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
The mountains were called Les Grand Tetons by the French explorers who first laid eyes on them because they were reminded of some big female breasts...
"Negromountain & The mountains were called Les Grand Tetons by the French explorers who first laid eyes on them because they were reminded of some big female breasts..."
This reminds me of the puzzling question:
Why did 1960-era Irish feminists have BLACK breasts?
Because they forgot to take their bras off before burning them.
They named the mountain after the guy... how is that a slander?
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