Posted on 10/02/2011 8:14:14 AM PDT by Staff Of Moses
Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.
“Niggerhead,” it read.
The name of this particular parcel did not change for years after it became associated with Rick Perry, first as a private citizen, then as a state official and finally as Texas governor.
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...and to further soothe any hard feelings, young Rick Perry then had a long and heartfelt conversation with the rock.
His parents bought into a hunting camp almost 30 years ago, that had a rock with the words "Nigger Head" on it and they painted over the rock.
Perry had nothing to do with it.
This is just the wapo going after a pubbie, and using the most vile, despicable tactics that are available.
The more they lefties pound this guy, the more they are going to drive conservatives over to him.
He has more in common with RINO's than conservatives.
Staff of Moses
Is a TROLL!!!
I’m think either some Dummies org or maybe Dixienet.org.
both “types” are lying about Perry.
The Fighting Sioux team name and mascot comes to mind as one of thousands.
Squaw Peak in Arizona was renamed for a woman who was the first Indian to be killed in Iraq. I had no problem with them naming a highway after her, but they changed the name of Squaw Peak because it was supposedly “offensive” to the indians. Everyone still calls it Squaw Peak.
Why because he wanted the stupid rock painted over?
THAST makes him a RINO?
You all are losing it.
Good work, Media! You da mans!
If Romney couldn’t beat McCain, and McCain couldn’t beat Zero, what does that tell you about why the media is pushing Romney ?
Go Herman !
Hey Moses, try shoving your staff, you troll, and I don't even like perry.
The irrational Perry hatred is only helping obama.
the only way I ever heard nigger used was as a directed derogatory except for junior high slaughterball which on occasion was called something incorporating that term
forced busing Christmas of 1969 sorta put a damper on that one..lol..in a town back then 40% black...now it's 85% black
truth be told to youngsters, the term nigger is more used today than in the waning days of Jimmy Crow in which I was reared
back then blacks rarely used it except for stern admonishment and white use was relegated to country folk and white trash ..usually a class distinction use...middle and upper class whites would never have said nigger in public...that might have said nigra in the home...but that faded by early 80s too even in the Delta
now blacks use it all the time as do many whites often directed at each other, and it's the tone that infers the distaste more than anything
I only use it if very angry..like fighting time if a person of color used such language on me..those days are long gone btw..9 years ago was last fight and with a young “cracker”...my daddy whipped me for saying nigger as a boy...we had hundreds working for us and he thought it disrespectful..and it was..shame no one cares anymore
the heightened use of the term nigger is as indicative of the coarsening of the culture as much as illegitimacy and the pervasiveness of pornography
This from a media that downplayed years of Obama befriending Jeremiah Wright.
“Niggerhead” was, among others:
A former British term for a black iron post for mooring ships, made from an old cannon partially buried muzzle upward, with a slightly oversize black cannonball covering the hole.
A former sailors’ term for an isolated coral head, notorious as navigation hazards.
Among some American stonemasons, a term for a large smoothly rounded stone.
An antiquated term for a large round rock sticking up from the surface of a logging road, used by loggers and log truck drivers in the Pacific Northwest.
An old U.S. Navy term for a small winch, a Capstan.
A coal miner’s term for blackish iron disulfide nodular rock occurring at the top of the coal seams, often visible in coal mine roofs. Because of their density, they can fall from the roofs, injuring or killing the miners below.
An archaic term for the striking weight on a pile driver.
A term for a steam manifold, fountain, turret or header on a boiler, particularly that of a locomotive.
There is an old family in this area known by the surname of Whitehead. I think they should change their name!
***I have camped in Nigger Bill canyon out in Utah.***
I camped in “Negro” Bill mesa on the San Juan River, NM. But that’s not what the locals call it.
I remember 40 years ago when the US government changed many names of local areas. One magazine made a real joke showing the new names.
Whorehouse Meadows became Naughty Girl meadows.
Bull$#!t Springs became Bull Shirt Springs.
Freepmail. Apparently the mods on Perry threads don’t like history lessons.
Six pack to anyone that photoshops a pic of Michelle Obama fishing in Big Assawoman Bay.
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