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Dirty Kanza organisers consider name change
Cyclingnews ^ | 23 June 2020

Posted on 06/23/2020 9:09:56 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

In a statement, race organiser Life Time expressed regret for "the hurt and emotional distress the events of the last few days have caused" and said that they had launched a 'Diversity and Inclusion Council.'

... Land Run 100 renamed to The Mid South for 2020.

The 'land run' name was linked to the forced removal and genocide of Native Americans by the US government in the 1800s.

In the petition, Cyclista Zine said that the name Dirty Kanza was a racial epithet that affected the Kaw Nation indigenous tribe based in Oklahoma and Kansas. The word Kanza is associated with the tribe.

(Excerpt) Read more at cyclingnews.com ...


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Another 15 seconds have past and another grievance pops up.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana

1 posted on 06/23/2020 9:09:56 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Mao is alive and well.

Which means a lot of other people won’t be, soon.


2 posted on 06/23/2020 9:12:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

***Dirty Kanza was a racial epithet that affected the Kaw Nation indigenous tribe***

So, the USA had a Vice President who was a Kaw, Charles Curtis. He could have been President if Hoover had kicked off.


3 posted on 06/23/2020 9:44:37 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

First Vice President of color. And he was a Republican.


4 posted on 06/23/2020 10:07:03 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: DUMBGRUNT
D.G.! Here's your "Dirty Kanza"! (Clue....not the teenager!:)

(For anyone who was on vacation in central asia for the past 2 years....)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkXfiKrT80U (Off to the garden!)

5 posted on 06/23/2020 11:41:39 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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