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Here is Herman Cain's quote:

"... And since Governor Perry has been going there for years to hunt, I think that shows a lack of sensitivity for a long time of not taking that word off of that rock and RENAME the place".

Herman Cain is claiming that N***Head was the NAME of the acreage. So which is it? The NAME of the acreage, or a random graffiti on a rock at the entrance?

The name of the hunting camp was “N***erhead”, then it became “Perry Camp.” The name of the Ranch is the Hendrick Ranch. The hunting on the ranch is run by Krooked River Outfitters.

There is a river crossing there...maybe it was in reference to the crossing....who knows.

The main thisg is that Perry didn’t name the camp...he had NOTHING to do with it at all....this is all so silly.

I knew I should have taken a picture of the DANG rock years ago.....LOL.

Herman Cain is claiming that N***Head was the NAME of the acreage. So which is it? The NAME of the acreage, or a random graffiti on a rock at the entrance?

The latter. A review the hunting lease reveals that it refers to the tract as the "Crooked River Ranch," which is not a valid legal description, but which probably serves to identify the tract in question as far as locals are concerned. The local name "Crooked River Ranch," however, is not very useful for identifying the tract for the benefit of third parties having little familiarity with the area.

At any rate, the hunting lease does not refer to the place as "Niggerhead," or "Honkybutt," or "Messkin Elbow" or anything else such as that. It refers to the tract as a portion of the Crooked River Ranch.

If in fact there was ever a rock at the entrance bearing the word "Niggerhead," the first notice Rick Perry likely had of that fact was when he initially arrived at the front gate.

This is reminiscent of the idiotic race-baiting that occurred in the 2000 campaign, when it was found that George Bush once owned a house in a subdivision where the deed restrictions at one time provided that the property could not be sold or conveyed to anyone of the African race. This was a complete canard at the time, because 1) millions of individual properties were encumbered by such deed restrictions during the Jim Crow era (both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line) and 2) such deed restrictions were then (and are now) unenforceable as a matter of federal law, and have been unenforceable for nearly sixty years. It flat does not now and did not matter in 2000 whether there had ever been any deed restrictions that could be construed as "racist" because when George Bush acquired the property, that deed restriction was completely unenforceable as a matter of federal law.

None of which prevented the Dems from trying to make racial hay out of the matter, of course. But it was still pretty stupid on their part.