Calif.'s Negrohead Mountain renamed
"Negro" has now become as incorrect as the original "n*gger"
"A peak previously known as Negrohead Mountain in Southern California's Santa Monica range was officially renamed Saturday in honor of a black pioneer who settled the area in the 19th Century. The 2,031-foot mountain near Malibu, the highest peak in the area, became Ballard Mountain after John Ballard, a blacksmith and former slave who bought land on the mountain in 1880.
The name originally contained a vulgar racial slur that even appeared on federal maps, but it was changed to "negro" in the 1960s.
The U.S. Geological Survey's Board on Geographic Names approved the change last year after a request from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
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I was going to call this a whitewash of the past but I guess it's a blackwash. To the pioneers, it would have simply been a resemblance they saw in the shape of the mountain.
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Gee, somebody had better let the United Negro College Fund know that they are now politically incorrect. Oh wait. I'm sure this only applies to Whites.
Why didn't they change the name using a word that blacks love to use;
Nigga Moutain.
Don't forget the ongoing campaign to remove "Squaw" from all maps.
I lived in an area that had a place called, "Negro Bill Canyon". There was talk of changing it, but thankfully, it never happened.
Eventually, it will become politically incorrect to suggest that slaves were able to overcome their horrific treatment and become useful members of society (if folks born in the last generation haven't overcome slavery and deserve reparations, then those who actually wereslaves obviously couldn't have done anything but sit in a dark corner and scream, right?) and the mountain will of course have to be renamed a third time.
Have become useful members of society? Which society are you talking about?
Will Whitey Lake in WI be renamed next?
How about Whitey Hollow in TN?
Or maybe Cracker City in OR?
Possibly Cracker Canyon in CA?
Kraut Lake in MN?
Chinaman Bayou in LA?
Polack Mountain in NY?
Wop Draw in WY?
Dago Hill in IL?
Chinks Point in MD?
Dink Ridge in KY?
Gringo Gulch, AZ?
Guido Canyon, NM?
Injun Joe Court, VT?
Nip Hollow, UT?
and on and on it goes...
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