Racial Slurs Woven Deep Into The American Landscape

[struggle4progress]

By Jennings Brown and Tal Reznik on Oct 29, 2015 at 4:27 PM

... Vocativ used .. technology to cross-reference every derogatory term listed in The 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) ... The thickest and most diverse cluster of racist place names is in Arizona ... At least 558 place names across the nation include derogatory words referring to African Americans ... The majority contain the word “negro” and many of those were originally known by an even more offensive name until .. 1962 ... The most common slur used in place names across the nation is “squaw” ... The majority of the “tit”-based names in the federal database are attached to “squaw.” By comparison, the word “nipple” is used almost exclusively with names generally associated with Anglo women—as in Mollys Nipple, Susies Nipple and Katies Nipple ...

http://www.vocativ.com/news/244179/racial-slurs-are-woven-deep-into-the-american-landscape/

[Kang Colby]

1. The outrage!

This is at least a 3 on my outrage meter!

In all seriousness, there are beautiful views from Mollie's nipple. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollie%27s_Nipple

[Brickbat]

2. Minnesota eliminated the term "squaw" from place names back in the mid-1990s.

One town, Squaw Lake, is on a reservation and refused to abide by the law. The other ones all changed.

[Brickbat]

3. I wish those maps were a little more interactive; I'd like to see what the dots represent.

I'm guessing one of the dots on the African-American map is Coon Rapids, Minnesota,