From the Associated Press....
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After
years of debate, a U.S. government board has voted to rename Utah's
Negro Bill Canyon, overruling a recommendation by Utah officials to keep
the name.
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names decided Thursday
to rename it Grandstaff Canyon to get rid of an offensive name, The Salt
Lake Tribune reports . The vote was 12-0, with one member declining to
vote. The decision comes 16 years after the board voted to keep the
name.The new name honors black rancher and prospector William Grandstaff, whose cattle grazed there in the 1870s.
"His name was Grandstaff; it was not Negro Bill," said Wendi-Starr Brown, a member of the federal board who is Native American. "I'm pretty sure that's not how he wanted to be addressed in life."
Brown is a member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe who represents the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the federal board.
The Utah Committee on Geographic Names had recommended keeping the name, citing a lack of consensus from state minority groups.
The NAACP said the name is not offensive and preserves the history of the site, while the Utah Martin Luther King Jr. Commission called the name "blatant racism."
There's a Utah chapter of the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission?
How many damn Blacks do you find hiking up the Moab?
Look, we're going nuts with the naming thing. Who cares...first. And Second...America's culture is being wiped out. As in...no-culture. But that's our culture. That we made up silly names to help us remember...how the fuck to get out of places. Yeah, we ARE too dumb to remember Grandstaff, but Negro Bill is hilarious and sticks to our pre-frontal lobe a lot longer.
But let's just start changing everything to suit our needs. I'm certain in Germany there's got to be a "Screaming Hitler Cave" or up there in Hollywood, there's got to be a "Jewy Weinstein Trampoline" (which would be a hotel).
We're slowly turning into Los Angeles too.
"Take a left at Arby's, then a right at Mr. Donuts and then you'll pass a billboard for Angelyne"
This is not what we want, you fucking dumb retards.
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