This is nothing more than political “mud-slinging”. Why did this just now come out? Haven’t the Perry’s been LEASING the property for decades? Try focusing some of this effort on something important to the American people. Also (to correct someone’s previous comment), the name, “Nigger” or “Negro” did not come from WHITE Europeans. It actually came from the Spanish and the Portuguese, which derived from Latin, means ‘black’ or ‘dark’.

Now, as for the N word, this should be a dead issue. It is the taboo of the word that makes it such an appealing epithet to use against black people. And to those who say it is used to empower black people and that is why they say nigga, stop kidding yourselves. How many Mexicans do you hear calling each other beaners or spicks? How many Irish people do you hear calling themselves micks? How many Germans call each other krauts? How many Chinese say slant-eye or chink? Or Southeast Asians saying guk? It just doesn’t happen.

It’s time to let go of this trend of disrespect-turned-empowerment. True empowerment comes from taking responsibility for yourself and supporting a government that allows you such an opportunity.

What’s in a name? The young student asked.
And why is the future connected to the past?
And why does that word that starts with a “N”,
Incite violence in the most peaceful of men?

The teacher looked perplexed and didn’t know where to begin,
To explain that word that starts with a “N”.
The dictionary seemed like a good place to start,
But it didn’t even touch upon the most important part.

How can a volume designed to define,
Words and phrases formed in the mind,
Give meaning to and take apart,
A concept of hate formed in the heart:

Of men who deny the humanity,
Of darker hued people who look like me.

Of men who believe that their lack of melanin,
Makes them pure and incapable of sin.

Of men who prayed and held Bibles in their hand,
While they raped and pillaged humanity’s motherland.

Of men who built empires, fortunes and fame,
By promoting a concept we mistakenly call: “a name”.

What’s in a name? The teacher asked.
And why is the future connected to the past?
And why does that word that starts with a “ N”.
Incite violence in the most peaceful of men?

The student tried to answer but he was a little confused.
So he stopped in mid-sentence and asked to be excused.
The teacher asked the student why he suddenly had to go.
At first the student looked down and said: “I don’t know”.
Then the student decided to reveal his newly made plans,
To go and study the history of all hue-mans.

What’s in a name?

He would have to go to New York however.
Nigger Lake.
http://thedjholla.com/?p=5630

Or he could go to Florida and jump off the Nigger Jim Hammock Bridge in Hendry County, Florida.

Feel free to blame those on Rick Perry too.

I’m quite sure that since the 60’s, ANY political candidate would seek to obliterate any such landmark names from any area they might be even remotely associated with, but I think you play into their hands if you let them get away with that. And if it’s a name that’s been in place for over 100 years — not that this was, perhaps, but I’m sure there are even older and maybe even more offensive names in other parts of the world — then I think we all end up a little more impoverished by “whitewashing” them, if you’ll pardon the expression.

Actually hoodgirl was right: Byrd did filibuster civil rights legislation, was a member of the Klan, and was a Democrat, not a Dixiecrat.

Big however: the senator who *was* a Dixiecrat, Strom Thurmond, was a Democrat before he switched to the Dixiecrat party, also filibustered civil rights legislation, ran for president on a segregationist platform and served out the rest of has years…as a Republican.