Sunday, September 28, 2008



"Coon" cheese is racist, says Australian black activist



Dr. Coon would be surprised.
"Emboldened by the State Government's decision to erase the word 'nigger' from a sports ground, an anti-racism activist says he will target Coon cheese. But Stephen Hagan's latest pursuit has already attracted hate-mail, with one emailer writing the cheese name should be changed to "nigga cheese".

Mr Hagan said he was used to personal attacks following his nine-year battle to have the racist term "nigger" removed from the E.S. "Nigger" Brown Stand in Toowoomba, named after the city's first international footballer. It is believed he received the nickname because he was particularly fair-skinned.

He said he was renewing his campaign against Coon cheese because he had information that it was called that nearly 10 years before Edward Coon lodged a patent in 1926. "I have my doubts about the original authenticity about the naming of that brand," Mr Hagan said. He said the word "Coon" was grossly offensive to indigenous people.

Source

Coon cheese is one of the most popular types of cheese sold in Australia and is named after the man who invented the process used in producing it. "Coon" was undoubtedly once used as a derogratory term for blacks but, as far as I know, has fallen out of use almost everywhere. I believe I have in fact heard the term used only once, when a person of Fascist sympathies referred to "Martin Luther Coon".

The fuss the guy above is making may well revive use of the term, however. "Anti-racists" generally do their best to keep racial antagonisms alive.

Update

See here for more on the origins of the cheese, written by a keen coon cheese eater.

12 comments:

Mercurius Aulicus said...

Well in Mr Hagen's never-ending war against people's names - I'm sure this information at this site would be of interest:

http://northcoastvoices.blogspot.com/2008/09/lord-luv-duck-coon-cheese-is-under.html

This splendid chap has found evidence after about 10 minutes research proving that Edward Coon was a famous Cheesemaker. Strange that an "academic" wasn't able to find this information - but I suppose you need something more than a Degree in Special Pleading Studies to do so.

Anonymous said...

Actually the term Coon was used for most outdoor men. There are many references to it in books written about the wild west here in the U.S.A. I don’t know when it no longer referred to white though. But if terms are to be banned, then how about banning Cracker, Salt Block and Oefay. All negative terms to describe White people.

Mobius

Anonymous said...

Coon skined hat, Coon hunting, and the one that I think most describes Mr Hagen, Goofyer then a pet Coon. Stormewaters

Anonymous said...

Where I live, we have a city called Coon Rapids, maybe we will have to rename that too.

Anonymous said...

There were a few people stirring it up in Coon Rapids, MN a few years back to change the name.

What about the phrase "I haven't seen you in a coons age"?

Anonymous said...

WORD OF THE DAY:
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, n.


The triumph of subjective sensitivity over objective reality.

Anonymous said...

This line just reminded me of something that happened several years ago in the northern U.S.A. There was a town that have a Creek that fed into a bay. Both were named Squaw. So Squaw creek fed Squaw bay. The state decided that both had to be renamed to get rid of the offensive names and that the town would do the renaming. After the votes were counted, the winner was Politically Correct Creek, fed into Politically Correct Bay. The state refused both names and tried to name them from the outside, but the people just kept the old names.

And don’t forget the “Fighting Whites” from the University of Northern Colorado. They tried to create an offensive term to whites and failed, but they have generated a Scholarship fund of almost $100,000 but the funds are only for non-whites.

Mobius

Anonymous said...

" I wonder how they are at marching, rioting, looting, and forever whining!"

Very good...

Anonymous said...

"Coon" cheese is racist, says Australian black activist"

Why don't they just change the name and be done with the PC taunting of that loony.

Since it is an Australian cheese I suggest they give it a proper name:

FROMUNDER CHEESE

Jim said...
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