Amid Confederate flag scrutiny, Utah reconsiders canyon name

Associated Press ^

[TigerClaws]

The renewed national scrutiny of the Confederate flag has officials again considering changing the name of Utah’s Negro Bill Canyon, though the title that some find offensive is a point of historical pride for others.

Grand County Councilwoman Mary McGann said the name of the picturesque canyon in southern Utah is outdated at best.

“We should evolve,” she said Wednesday.

[alexander_busek]

I’ve been to the area several times. The name has already been changed once. I hope Utah doesn’t fold. [...] Negro Bill Canyon (called Nigger Bill Canyon from the late 19th century until the 1960s) is a canyon in southeast Utah. It is part of the Colorado River watershed. Its stream flows directly into the main channel of the Colorado River within Moab Canyon.

Time for another up-date: "Afro-American Bill Canyon" - then another "African-American Bill Canyon." Change it every ten years.

Regards,

[uglybiker]

That would be ‘Cracka MoFo Canyon’.

[Leep]

Microaggession Canyon

[jimjohn]

How about changing it to Robert E. Lee Canyon?
That would shut them up.

[Vaquero]

Is White a color?...

All of ‘em

[Rodney Dangerfield]

“colored people” want to be known as “people of color” and the “United Negro College Fund” now goes by “UNCF”

Then there are those evil Koch Bros. who gave 25Million to the fund.

Liberals will probably argue they did so just so they can say the word “Negro” when discussing the donation.

Yes, they are that looney.

[metesky]

Headline is not the original and the article says the exact opposite of the poster’s header...

[Sooth2222]

"Is White a color?..."

I prefer to be known as an "uncolored person" myself.

Where are white people actually white? "Pink people" seems rather a slur.

[raccoonradio]

—A street in very-white Middleton MA was named 125th St—not that there were at least 124 other named streets, but it referred to a black family having once lived there (125th St aka...Harlem?) The late talk radio host Norm Nathan got it changed to something else.

—In Boston’s gangster wars of the 60s, there was a group of black mobsters who got wiped out by others; but at least they had a sense of humor. They dubed the cover name of their group New England Grass Roots Organization

—Old public service announcements would outrightly say the full name of the UNCF;and then there’s the NAACP. If colored is an offensive word (of color is PC—why, that’s different) shouldn’t they be the NAAPOC? I get on messageboards and mention this along with “I am a Native American” (born in US) and a person of color (beige), yet people still prefer to say “person of color” and “Native American” (rather than American Indian)

This same kind of PC means the song I’m An Indian Too is often banned from Annie Get Your Gun—stereotypes of Indians? The song SPOOFS these stereotypes but we can’t have humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN2FGuYgtlY

[oldvirginian]

On one hand, the NAACP has said the term negro is neither pejorative nor defamatory.
But now some of them want to say it *is* defamatory.

Let me know when the Perpetually Offended make up their minds.

In my lifetime the descriptors have gone:
Nigger
Negro
Colored
African American
And now “people of color”

The “change the name” group can’t settle on anything for any reason.

Someone give them a dog and name it clue, so they’ll have one.

[JohnnyP]

You forgot “Black”. Remember Black power?

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, they haven’t really advanced much overall, though some have doubtless made out well, so I guess they have to try to seem relevant somehow.

[xzins]

The only real question is whether the place was Spanish before it was Mormon.

If it was, then it is el negro Bill cañón. And since Utah was won in the Treaty of Hidalgo, then that means it used to be northern Mexico, and a cattle rancher would have used Hispanics for cowboys.

So, el negro Bill cañón is not just an outside possibility, but a real one.

I wonder if progressive are agitating to change the Spanish for black to the English for black?

[broken_arrow1]

The "Colored People" group wants the name changed to be updated?

The "People of Color" group wants the name changed to be updated?

"Colored People" bad, "People of Color" good. See the difference, it is all a matter of "of"...

[sima_yi]

Member of an Underrepresented Minority Bill Canyon

[mongrel]

Except it’s not the NAACP that’s offended. They want to keep the name. The headline posted hear is an outright lie, and was changed from the original. It’s white guilt that’s trying to change it.

[PCPOET7]

propose to the NAACP that we change the name to a number designation. so that when the name is changed that we wont have to revisit the issue in 30 years when that becomes offensive. I see it now canyon 234 in utah... this might be the answer to all the offensive names we find on maps and all the offensive names for schools and national monuments.

[vetvetdoug]

In McNairy County, Tennessee, near Guys, there was a road that went from NW Alcorn County, Mississippi, to McNairy County that was called Nigger Road. The 1986 Tennessee maps changed the name to a more acceptable Negro Road but in 2000 they changed the name entirely to Gin Road. Progress...

[TalBlack]

There is some kind of Black cowboy museum in Brooklyn where Linden bvld turns into S. Conduit. They have the names of black cowboys on signs all along the fence. I'll look for this guy's name next time I pass there.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I see what you did there. Funniest thing I’ve seen today.