neoplacebo wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 4:39 pm
O Really wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 1:05 pm
Since the area has been returned to wild, I wouldn't have a problem with them marking it something like:
"Once named 'Niggertown' this area was a community established by freed slaves after the Civil War. It was burned to the ground by a white lynch mob around 1900..."
It's possible to report history without honoring the events.
They are not interested in reporting history (they've even made laws in FL against doing so) but they are keen on glossing over it or ignoring it.
Some report says that the following was heard in the meeting:
But, but the name is what's history and we like seeing it on our maps and things cause I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, then only the black ones get to say the n word but when the map says Niggertown you get to say it out loud and snicker just a bit when you say Niggertown. I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future. For our children
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”