Every day it gets tougher to be black

It's academia. Especially feminist or ethnic academia. You can say whatever crazy shit you want and no one will call you on it.

Imagine her trying that in the real world.

"I'm black."

"No you're not. Shut the fuck up."

The end.

 

She had her 15 minutes, but she wants 30. I'm guessing she is looking for a book deal or some other payoff.

 

Utah Officials Considering New Name for Negro Bill Canyon

This all gets so complicated.

SALT LAKE CITY — The renewed national scrutiny of the Confederate flag has officials again considering changing the name of Utah's Negro Bill Canyon, a title that's offensive to some but a point of historical pride for the state's largest NAACP chapter.

Grand County Councilwoman Mary McGann said the name of the picturesque canyon in southern Utah is outdated at best.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

She's planning to ask the council to recommend a name change to the U.S. Board of Geographic Names as soon as Aug. 4.

The Moab canyon is named for William Granstaff, a black cowboy who ran cattle there in the 1870s. Landmarks named for white historical figures aren't generally prefaced by race, McGann said, and the canyon should bear his last name instead.

But Jeanetta Williams, president of the Salt Lake City chapter of the NAACP, says the name isn't offensive. She's drumming up support to keep the name that makes it clear the canyon is named for a black historical figure.

"We don't want to lose the history," she said. She'd like to see the council tackle other issues facing black residents instead, like housing discrimination. Though her group supported changing the name from a more derogatory word decades ago, they've opposed other efforts over the years to make a wholesale revision.

McGann said she brought up the issue to the council after the June 17 massacre of nine black church members at a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina sparked the removal of Confederate flags from public property and displays across the South. Dylann Roof, a white man who appeared in a photo with a Confederate flag, is charged in the killings.

"It's time to remove all symbols which, on some level, justify having a certain race of people distinguished differently from another race of people," she said.


Mary McGann is on the left.

 

I'd be chuffed if someone names a canyon after me: Rasta Charles Canyon…I think millions of you whiteys would visit my canyon just to see if you could identify with it.

 

Why not? Haven't they already attacked every copy of Huck Finn with an eraser?

 

Its funny in that anytime something like this happens, they swing the pendulum as far as they can the other way and name it something like Malcolm X Canyon or the Angela Davis Gash or something.

 

:up:

 

Idiots in Georgia...


http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/four-confederate-flags-left-at-king-center-ebeneze/nm889/

Look you 2 idiots there are plenty of reasons to hate people. The color of their skin should be about 900,000 lines down on the list. Time to grow up you redneck fucksticks.

 

They got the response they wanted. Maybe if that weren't the case, there would be less stupid shit. Of course, if you attack people's heritage, expect them to react.
I have no sympathy for those who want to make a big deal out of this incident. No worse than vandalising civil war statues.

 

while offensive as hell, I am not sure I see a crime beyond littering.

 

"Terrorist act"