Racial slurs are woven deep into the American landscape

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

http://news.yahoo.com/racial-slurs-are-woven-deep-into-the-american-landscape-160045373.html

The United States is literally covered in racial slurs from Dead Negro Hollow, Tennessee, to Wetback Tank, New Mexico, to Dead Injun Creek, Oregon. At least 1,441 federally recognized places across the nation include slurs in their official name, a Vocativ data analysis of millions of records reveals.

In the wake of a nationwide backlash against Confederate symbols and President Barack Obama’s decision to restore the Native American name of the nation’s highest mountain, Vocativ used our technology to cross-reference every derogatory term listed inThe Racial Slur Database with the 2.2 million official names of locations listed in the U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Vocativ tallied and mapped hundreds of places with names that evoke racial oppression and a legacy of hatred.

Places with derogatory names exist in every state, though the largest clusters are in the West and the South. California has at least 159 place names that are offensive to Native Americans, African Americans, Chinese people and Italians. The thickest and most diverse cluster of racist place names is in Arizona.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Must be that agenda driven crowd

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

I demand an immediate boycott of Cracker Barrel

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Must be that agenda driven crowd

Because we know there's no other agenda out there

I demand an immediate boycott of Cracker Barrel

Or at least a minority equivalent, like a N-word Bucket or something.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Ok I admit there are other agendas. I just thought, you thought you were agenda free

Because we know there's no other agenda out there

Or at least a minority equivalent, like a N-word Bucket or something.

Well they did take down Sambos

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Ok I admit there are other agendas. I just thought, you thought you were agenda free

Well they did take down Sambos

Nope, everyone has one. Mine is just different.

There's a ton of racist things still in existence, most folks don't know about it so it flies under the radar. I didn't know such words as picnic, eeny meeny miney mo, squaw. and the like were considered racist.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Nope, everyone has one. Mine is just different.

There's a ton of racist things still in existence, most folks don't know about it so it flies under the radar. I didn't know such words as picnic, eeny meeny miney mo, squaw. and the like were considered racist.

If you spend a lot of energy looking for a reason to be offended you will find it . So now that you know those words or offensive will you be offended. The I am offended by everything movement has lost its collective mind

[JohnR! 5,495]

Absolutely no agenda man. We all know that the fable of racism in America is a construct from the bleeding heart libruhls in Californi-a, just like Obama's birth certificate... All liles...

Because we know there's no other agenda out there

Or at least a minority equivalent, like a N-word Bucket or something.

[Boiler 46,322]

Haters just love to hate no matter what you do.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

If you spend a lot of energy looking for a reason to be offended you will find it . So now that you know those words or offensive will you be offended. The I am offended by everything movement has lost its collective mind

Don't have to look. Picnic is short for pic a N*****. So I do find it offensive since it kind of relates to me.

Haters just love to hate no matter what you do.

We know...

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Don't have to look. Picnic is short for pic a N*****. So I do find it offensive since it kind of relates to me.

We know...

Like most of the race baiting hysteria of today, this is completely false. The word picnic is s french word and has nothing to do with America or black people.

Sorry but you are going to have to find something else to be offended about today.I have no doubt you will find something else in short order to be offended about

[eieio 1,594]

Like most of the race baiting hysteria of today, this is completely false. The word picnic is s french word and has nothing to do with America or black people.

Sorry but you are going to have to find something else to be offended about today.I have no doubt you will find something else in short order to be offended about

I agree. For some people…….life is no picnic

[TBoneTX 46,319]

My favorite place-name is Toad Suck, Arkansas. Of course, amphibians are enraged.

[Expat1 971]

Don't have to look. Picnic is short for pic a N*****.

Huh?

Methinks you fell for an urban legend.

You might want to fact-check that one and get back with us. Looking up reasons to be offended is one think, making up reasons is another.

Instead, the origin on the word picnic is French (piquenique) and was invented long before the atrocities towards blacks took place in America. This French word - piquenique - signifies an outing with food - similar to the word's meaning in English. At these piqueniques, the attendees would all bring food to the occasion, similar to what we call potlucks today. The outdoor concept of a picnic did not originate until the 19th century.

So, how did this word originate? We are unsure what the word pique actually means. There are two options: leisurely eating (picking) or a delicacy of food. Nique was selected since it rhymed with Pique.

Historians have found this French word in references outside of the French language as early as 1748 and into English by around 1800.

IF: Your agenda is to police what words can and cannot be said on the internet consider this to be an official finger at your sensitive little feelings. You can stop making up imaginary offenses anytime you want to, it's your choice. This is getting ridiculous. I can't believe this site tolerates this made up and divisive nonsense.

Edited October 31, 2015 by Expat1

[Expat1 971]

Don't have to look. Picnic is short for pic a N*****.

Here's some advice. Take it.

http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.asp

As Richard R. Jones noted in Black Voice News, there's a very real downside to spouting hoax definitions just because they push a few buttons: It makes those doing the protesting look ignorant. Those who run with their emotions instead of using their heads end up doing the racists' work for them by making themselves appear to be too foolish to crack open a dictionary, and this caricature is not something that should be fostered if racism is to be defeated.

"Many Black people are too quick to believe negative rumors; therefore, I refuse to contribute to national ignorance. These type of hoaxes only serve to make Black people look stupid and by no means is an advancement in education. It is too easy to go to the library and research the origin of words in dictionaries and/or encyclopedias to believe and spread every bit or garbage that comes through cyberspace."

Congratulations. I don't know who Richard R Jones is but he nailed you to the spot on this issue. Please understand that the rest of us do not have to tolerate or put up with your laziness or ignorance or foolish spouting and spreading of untrue rumors with absolutely no goal but to create racial divisions on this board.

Summary: You actually do have to look. I'm done on this issue.

Edited October 31, 2015 by Expat1