To: tejek who wrote (634707 ) 11/6/2011 9:13:35 AM From: PROLIFE Read Replies (3) | Respond to Yep, that's Texas...we all take lessons in how to beat our kids...and all the ranches are named nigger something. And Texas is the only state where you have ever heard the phrase "jew them down on the price" The word nigger features in official place-names, such as " Nigger Bill Canyon ", " Nigger Hollow ", and " Niggertown Marsh ". In 1967, the United States Board on Geographic Names changed the word nigger to Negro in 143 place names. First changed to "Negrohead Mountain", a peak above Santa Monica , California was renamed on (February 2010) to Ballard Mountain in honor of John Ballard, a black pioneer who settled the area in the 19th Century. "Nigger Head Mountain", at Burnet , Texas, was so named because the forest atop it resembled a black man's hair. In 1966, the US First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson , denounced the racist name, asking the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and the U.S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming "Colored Mountain" in 1968; and in West Texas , "Dead Nigger Creek" was renamed "Dead Negro Draw". [64] Nigger Nate Grade ", near Temecula , California , named for Nate Harrison, an ex-slave and settler, was renamed "Nathan Harrison Grade Road" in 1955, at the request of the NAACP . [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] In northwestern North America, particularly in Canada and the US, there are places which feature many uses of the word nigger. [70] [71] [72] [73] Penticton , British Columbia , Canada, "Niggertoe Mountain" was renamed Mount Nkwala . The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain. [74] Lower Mississippi River , in West Baton Rouge Parish , named "Free Nigger Point" until the late twentieth century, first was renamed "Free Negro Point", but currently is named "Wilkinson Point". [75] Pennington Gap , Virginia , was renamed "Great Stone Face" in the 1970s.
