Don't be cruel

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Bob Of Burleson
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Don't be cruel

Postby Bob Of Burleson » Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:06 pm

Kit Carson Park in New Mexico
renamed over
American Indian concerns


TAOS, N.M. (AP) – A northern New Mexico town council has voted to change the name of Kit Carson Park over concerns by critics that the famed scout and explorer was cruel to American Indians.

The Taos Town Council passed a resolution Tuesday to rename the downtown park Red Willow following a presentation from activists, the Albuquerque Journal reports.

Council member Fritz Hahn said one American Indian activist felt uncomfortable in the park, which is named after someone who egregiously hurt her people. "We have got to heal the wreckage of the past, and Kit Carson is part of that," Hahn said

Carson, who died in in 1868, is buried in the cemetery at the park and his name is all over Taos. He largely is known as an explorer, trapper, soldier and American Indian agent.

But Carson was ordered by the U.S. Army to relocate around 8,000 Navajo men, women and children 300 miles from Arizona to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on what's called the "Long Walk." An estimated 200 Navajos died from cold and starvation after traveling in brutal and harsh winter conditions for almost two months.

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Re: Don't be cruel

Postby LibraryLady » Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:38 pm

The Romans were cruel to Jesus........will they be renamed?
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Re: Don't be cruel

Postby BillB » Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:54 pm

Yellowstone is being renamed because it's offensive to Asians.

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Re: Don't be cruel

Postby BigTex » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:08 pm

You think the political correctness industry is more concerned about Jesus Christ or the Navajo Indian?

And how many people at the AP got fired for letting a story get out using the phrase "American Indian"?


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