Racial insults may be wiped off map: North Carolina place names

Raliegh News-Observer ^ | April 30, 2003 | LYNN BONNER

[KellyAdmirer]

Just rename them all "Bob."

[T. P. Pole]

The next target needs to be all of these cities with Christian names. How can we have a separation of church and state and still have all of these cities with Christian names? We need to use numbers to replace these names. For example, San Francisco can be renamed City #54, San Antonio.. #47, and we can just forget about Sacramento.

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Actually many other cities are named after some dead white guy, like Washington or Lincoln. This, no doubt, intimidates women and people of color. We should rename all of our cities using just numbers. This would avoid offending anyone and make it easier for GIS programmers.

Don't be so sure about that. Personally, the numbers 8 and 15 offend me...

And don't get me started about 69.

[Blue Screen of Death]

Don't be so sure about that. Personally, the numbers 8 and 15 offend me...

Not a problem. That is the nice thing about numbers, there are almost as many of them as there are saints in Mexico.

[Adder]

Uh wait a minute...numbers offend me. [LOL]

[Carolinamom]

Frog Pond, NC? Palestine, NC? 'Bound to offend someone. I'm offended that they are offended.

[T. P. Pole]

. . . and look at that. I ended up with post 43! Boy, that offends me. . .

[F.J. Mitchell]

THey will attack Carolina for the "Carol" part, as in Christmas Carol, a Christian connection-a no-no as regards separation of Church and State. They will nail SC at the same time. We are lucky to have gotten away with it this long.

[F.J. Mitchell]

How about "Pleasently Plump Babe Mountain" ?

[yarddog]

The river which runs through Asheville, NC is the "French Broad".

I can't count all the jokes I have heard about it.

[Darth Reagan]

Well, of course it's absolutely approprite to change these names and get the "N" word out of them. It should have been done before now.

But I find it interesting that these names are in the western part of the state . . . the part of the state that remained loyal to the North during the late unpleasantness.

[johnb838]

All you have to do is add a single letter: Nigglerskull Mountain, Niggler Head, Niggler Spring.

[ampat]

It's probably a good idea to change the names, but don't go any further.

[stainlessbanner]

Intercourse, PA - it's real!

[Vinnie]

Black Mountain

Actually I like its original name.. Grey Eagle

What about Whiteside Mountain?

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[Vinnie]

The river which runs through Asheville, NC is the "French Broad".

That offends everyone( almost everyone). Freedom Broad??

[HenryLeeII]

And let us not forget Intercourse, Pennsylvania!

[stands2reason]

I wonder if they're going to rename White Lake?

so the word "white" is of equal offensiveness to the word "nigger"?

[stands2reason]

Black Mountain

Brown Summitt

Are you saying the words "balck" and "brown" are as offensive as the word "nigger"?