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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 6, 2023, 5:15 pm
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Montana becomes more American:
HTML https://www.ktvh.com/news/montana-landmarks-named-after-confederate-president-renamed
[quote]The U.S. Geological Survey’s Board on Geographic Names
approved the renaming of three geographic features that had been
named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
...
Two of the features were given traditional Salish names, the
third was named in honor of a Salish chief.
The board renamed Jeff Davis Gulch just outside Helena in Lewis
and Clark County to In-qu-qu-leet Gulch, a rough phonetic
rendering of the Salish word that means "Place of Lodgepole
Pine." Jeff Davis Creek in Beaverhead County has been renamed
Doyavinai Baa O’ogwaide which means “water flowing from the
mountain creek."
Jeff Davis Peak in Broadwater County will now be called Three
Eagles Peak. According to the Char Kooosta News, Three Eagles is
named after a Salish chief from the late 1700s.[/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 15, 2023, 4:38 pm
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Our enemies complain about our latest success:
HTML https://vdare.com/posts/great-replacement-rumbles-on-minneapolis-s-patrick-henry-high-school-now-93-non-white-will-change-name-to-no-longer-honor-a-dead-white-male
They even included a photo which shows the American (ie.
non-Western) campus architecture:
HTML https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/61139/VDARE-kersey-patrick-henry.jpg
[quote]If renaming one kindergarten bearing Anne Frank's name
shows "the threat to Jews today", then what does renaming
hundreds of schools, buildings, and streets bearing White
people's names suggest about the threat posed to them in their
own homelands?[/quote]
These are not your homelands, occupier.
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 12, 2024, 3:45 pm
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HTML https://mainemorningstar.com/2024/02/07/maine-grapples-with-renaming-racial-and-ethnic-slurs-in-place-names/
[quote]At least 16 places in Maine have names that include
racial or ethnic slurs, although by law many were supposed to be
eradicated decades ago
...
In 1977, Maine’s first Black state legislator Gerald Talbot
sponsored a bill that prohibited the use of the n-word in the
names of places, and in 2000, Passamaquoddy Tribal
Representative Donald Soctomah got a bill passed eradicating
from place names the sq-slur, a racist term for a Native
American woman.
However, Talbot’s daughter, House Speaker Rep. Rachel Talbot
Ross (D-Portland), discovered in 2020 that her father’s bill had
not been effectively enforced, nor had Soctomah’s measure.
Several islands and other sites still illegally had names that
bore slurs against Black people and Native American women.
Talbot Ross was behind a 2022 law intended to rectify
noncompliance, tasking the Permanent Commission to create a
council to identify remaining offensive place names. While Maine
has been ahead of the curve in outlawing slurs from place names,
the continued existence of offensive names in the state show
oversight is still lacking.
...
“When my father put in his landmark bill, he made a speech on
the House floor that asked the state legislature if it was right
for his kids to be raised in a state in which they could look at
the names of mountains and rivers and streams that actually use
the derogatory N-word,”
...
The Place Justice Advisory Council found 163 places in Maine
named after Indigenous people. “In these cases, which might at
first appear to honor these individuals, what we have to ask is
‘Who did the naming?’” questioned Meadow Dibble, a project lead
on the research. “Often what is being celebrated is people’s
deaths, rather than honoring them.”[/quote]
This. (Answer: probably a Western occupier.)
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 5, 2024, 1:00 am
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Success:
HTML https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/04/sir-walter-raleigh-sir-francis-drake-names-exeter-school/
[quote]A private school has pledged to remove the names of Sir
Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake from its buildings in an
“inclusivity” drive.
Parents at Exeter School in Devon were told that the Elizabethan
naval heroes no longer “represent the values and inclusive
nature” of the school.
...
Raleigh was a colonialist who failed to establish a British
settlement in North Carolina because of hostile relations with
Native Americans.
...
Drake took part in voyages with his cousin, Sir John Hawkins,
which saw the capture of black African slaves.
[/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 1, 2024, 8:52 pm
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HTML https://www.theroot.com/rebuild-the-francis-scott-key-bridge-in-baltimore-but-1851368486
[quote]When the Bridge in MD is Rebuilt, Rename it Because
Francis Scott Key Was a Slave Owner
...
Yep, Key had that colonial fever. He bought his first slave in
1800 or 1801. Even at that long-ago date, slavery had ceased
being an unquestioned aspect of American life.
There were people who questioned its morality, abhorred its
horrors. Key bought a few more Black people during his life and
had seven or eight when he died in 1843.
...
“Are you willing, gentlemen, to abandon your country, to permit
it to be taken from you, and occupied by the abolitionist,
according to whose taste it is to associate and amalgamate with
the negro? Or, gentlemen, on the other hand, are there laws in
this community to defend you from the immediate abolitionist,
who would open upon you the floodgates of such extensive
wickedness and mischief?”
Let me say that in 2024 words:
“White men, ya’ll sure you want to have your country taken from
you and occupied by N-lovers, who might well want you and your
women to get with them Ns? Or, are there laws in the country to
stop them crazy N-lovers from unleashing those Ns on you and
yours?”
That Key’s argument wasn’t successful doesn’t free him from the
shackle of having made it. And, of course, there are those Black
people he bought and owned.
So, when the new bridge spans the Patapsco, name it something
other than the Key Bridge.
Lots of Americans — hell, lots of Marylanders — are far more
worthy of the honor. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass
immediately come to mind.
Hell, we don’t even have to go back that far. What about
Thurgood Marshall? Or the late congressman, Elijah
Cummings?[/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 10, 2024, 3:34 pm
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Update:
HTML https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/state-government/key-bridge-name-change-naacp-UH3RVRTRS5AIVAA4DS34EYPONM/
[quote]The caucus is now calling on Gov. Wes Moore and the
Maryland General Assembly to rename the bridge after the late
U.S. Rep. Parren J. Mitchell, the first African American from
Maryland elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
The caucus is also asking that the Senator Frederick Malkus
Memorial Bridge, a beam bridge over the Choptank River in
Dorchester County, be renamed for the late Gloria Richardson, a
Civil Rights pioneer and leader in Maryland. The late Gov. Harry
R. Hughes opposed naming the bridge for Malkus, who was
resistant to desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s, according to
the group.[/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 15, 2024, 2:30 am
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A mess we will one day have to clean up:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zed-g6dbZ8
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 22, 2024, 8:40 pm
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HTML https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/20/botanists-remove-racist-references-plants-scientific-names
[quote]The effect of the vote will be that all plants, fungi and
algae names that contain the word caffra, which originates in
insults made against Black people, will be replaced by the word
affra to denote their African origins.[/quote]
That is hardly an improvement. "Africa" itself is a Eurocentric
term as we have explained countless times. "Affra" (also why 2
"f"s?) would only be a non-offensive name if the plant
originated in the red area:
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Roman_Empire_-_Africa_Proconsularis_%28125_AD%29.svg/1232px-Roman_Empire_-_Africa_Proconsularis_%28125_AD%29.svg.png
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 21, 2024, 11:00 am
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Another success:
HTML https://www.toddstarnes.com/values/pale-face-not-welcome-smoky-mountains-renames-clingmans-dome/
[quote]The site named after U.S. Sen. Thomas Clingman in 1859.
He was a renowned explorer and the first person to accurately
measure the peak’s elevation. He later served as a general in
the Confederate War.
And since Clingman was a white guy and he fought in the
Confederate War – well – you know the rest of the story.
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted in favor of changing
the name to Kuwohi – a Cherokee Indian word meaning “mulberry
place.”
“This significant moment honors our ancestors and strengthens
our connection to this sacred land,” said Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians Chief Michell Hicks in a written
statement.[/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 18, 2024, 6:03 pm
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HTML https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/absolute-joke-residents-furious-as-victorian-lake-renamed-after-sikh-founder-guru-nanak/news-story/9753e0707827f58ad67d6872d0feede0
[quote]Berwick Springs Lake, southeast of Melbourne, has been
renamed Guru Nanak Lake after Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of
the Sikh faith.[/quote]
The racially inferior of course dislike it:
[quote]“I’m sorry but what an absolute joke,” one woman wrote on
Facebook.
Another local slammed it as “outrageous”. “Where was the
community consultation?” they said.
One wrote, “No consultation. This must be reversed immediately.
We have lived in the Berwick Springs estate for 25 years. How
can you change the name without the residents being notified?”
One local said it was “so wrong”. “I’ll be fighting for it to be
reverted back,” he wrote. “This has no relevance whatsoever and
is creating further division. Watch this space, the residents
are furious. Appalling.”[/quote]
Their sole attempt at argumentation:
[quote]One noted, “Guru Nanak wasn’t exactly a local[/quote]
True, but neither is Berwick:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick,_Victoria
[quote]It was named by an early leaseholder, Robert Gardiner,
after his birthplace, Berwick-on-Tweed in
Northumberland.[3][/quote]
At least Sikhs never colonized Australia. Between two non-local
names, the non-colonial one is preferable.
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