To: sklar
Has anybody seen a picture of this rock? Is there still a racial epithet written on this rock? Anybody got a picture of a smiling Rick Perry in standing front of the rock?
Lest we forget...the name "Niggerhead" was borne by in excess of 100 separate geographic features in the U.S at one time. There is a brackish lake in Southeast Texas on the upper reaches of Trinity Bay called "Niggerhead Lake." Said feature started to appear on maps in the early 1970s as "Negrohead Lake," which is obviously a much more palatable (not to mention culturally sensitive) name than "Niggerhead Lake."
Maybe Rick Perry used to water ski there. ;-)
52 posted on
10/03/2011 12:41:29 PM PDT by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: Milton Miteybad
A stream in Louisa County, Virginia was once called “Nigger Run”.
USGS Topo maps showed it as such in to the late 1970s.
74 posted on
10/03/2011 12:54:52 PM PDT by
WayneS
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