To: i-node who wrote (630203 ) 10/3/2011 11:47:11 AM From: tejek Read Replies (2) | Respond to Remind me again, Dave, how the GOP is beyond racism these days. Perry shifts from one crisis to another Perry’s new crisis 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. Ranchers who once grazed cattle on the 1,070-acre parcel on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River called it by that name well before Perry and his father, Ray, began hunting there in the early 1980s…. But 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. Washington Post ’s headline on this scoop called the hunting camp’s name “racially charged.” Given just how offensive this is, I’d argue we’re well past “racially charged” on this one. Post ’s report, telling reporters that the governor’s father painted over the word shortly after leasing the land, and that Perry himself considers the word “offensive.” But as the Post noted this morning , the campaign’s line is in conflict with “the recollections of seven people cited in the story, and it remains unclear when or whether Perry dealt with the name while using the camp.” told ABC “Since Governor Perry has been going there for years to hunt, I think that it shows a lack of sensitivity for a long time of not taking that word off of that rock and renaming the place. It’s just basically a case of insensitivity.”
