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Rick Perry hunting camp resolution to be taken up by House next week

The House of Representatives next week will consider a resolution calling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) to apologize for not immediately “doing away” with a rock bearing the controversial name of his family’s West Texas hunting camp, “ Nig gerhead.”

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/rick-perry-hunting-camp-resolution-to-be-taken-up-by-house-next-week/2011/10/06/gIQA7IcPQL_blog.html

 

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Originally Posted by The Propagandist:

Save your strength for the matter at hand -- getting people back to work. The media seems to be doing a pretty good job with the heavy lifting already with the hunting camp.

 

No need to get involved in another diversion. The Republicans provide enough; Democrats shouldn't add another one. 


I find it funny that anyone would be surprised at such a name in the South, in the 1980's or the 2012's.  Luckily for BushIIe, he was from Maine, and not Texas. 

 

I should have known. This "resolution" from Jesse "Wacko" Jackson Jr. The same one who blames iPads for killing jobs. The son of Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson. Remember him?

 

Rev. Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in January 1984 during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman. Jackson had assumed the references would not be printed because of his racial bond with Coleman, but several weeks later Coleman permitted the slurs to be included far down in an article by another Post reporter on Jackson's rocky relations with American Jews.

A storm of protest erupted, and Jackson at first denied the remarks, then accused Jews of conspiring to defeat him. The Nation of Islam's radical leader Louis Farrakhan, an aggressive anti-Semite and old Jackson ally, made a difficult situation worse by threatening Coleman in a radio broadcast and issuing a public warning to Jews, made in Jackson's presence: "If you harm this brother [Jackson], it will be the last one you harm."

Finally, Jackson doused the fires in late February with an emotional speech admitting guilt and seeking atonement before national Jewish leaders in a Manchester, New Hampshire synagogue. Yet Jackson refused to denounce Farrakhan, and lingering, deeply rooted suspicions have led to an enduring split between Jackson and many Jews. The frenzy also heightened tensions between Jackson and the mostly white establishment press.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...n/frenzy/jackson.htm

Originally Posted by Roland Pfalz:

 

I should have known. This "resolution" from Jesse "Wacko" Jackson Jr. The same one who blames iPads for killing jobs. The son of Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson. Remember him?

 

Rev. Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in January 1984 during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman. Jackson had assumed the references would not be printed because of his racial bond with Coleman, but several weeks later Coleman permitted the slurs to be included far down in an article by another Post reporter on Jackson's rocky relations with American Jews.

A storm of protest erupted, and Jackson at first denied the remarks, then accused Jews of conspiring to defeat him. The Nation of Islam's radical leader Louis Farrakhan, an aggressive anti-Semite and old Jackson ally, made a difficult situation worse by threatening Coleman in a radio broadcast and issuing a public warning to Jews, made in Jackson's presence: "If you harm this brother [Jackson], it will be the last one you harm."

Finally, Jackson doused the fires in late February with an emotional speech admitting guilt and seeking atonement before national Jewish leaders in a Manchester, New Hampshire synagogue. Yet Jackson refused to denounce Farrakhan, and lingering, deeply rooted suspicions have led to an enduring split between Jackson and many Jews. The frenzy also heightened tensions between Jackson and the mostly white establishment press.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...n/frenzy/jackson.htm

More meaningless ranting from the ****-wanna-be.

There is a long history of use of inappropriate geographic place names in this country

 

From Wikipedia:


"W ho rehouse Meadow is a meadow located on the west slope of Steens Mountain northeast of Frenchglen, OregonUnited States. It earned its name in the days of the Old West. Entrepreneuring females from Vale, Oregon would set up wood and canvas tents in the meadow to provide services to the sheepherders and cattlemen of the area. Many of the sheepherders were Basque American immigrants, and their sometimes explicit carvings can still be found in the bark of aspen trees surrounding the meadow. The name was changed briefly in the 1960s to "Naughty Girl Meadow" on Bureau of Land Management maps, but in 1981 the old name was restored after public outcry."

 

Residents of the area demanded that the Bureau of Land Management stop being so prissy about this historic name and the Bureau relented.

 

More than one geographic feature has formerly been named on official government maps using the "N word." The U.S. government discontinued this offensive practice in 1962.  When did the Perry family remove its racist rock?  Read and decide for yourself at  http://www.washingtonpost.com/...IQAOhY5DL_story.html

 

Here is a link describing the regrettably widespread former use of the "N word" for map sites:

 

From: http://www.slate.com/blogs/wei...****head_u_s_a_.html

The name “Ni g gerhead” has a long and wide history. It was once applied to products such as soap and chewing tobacco, but most often to geographic features such as hills and rocks.
In 1962, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names changed more than a hundred such names, substituting “Negro.”

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