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Old 06-23-2015, 01:24 PM
 
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In one sense, I get this.

In another sense I do not.

This is from the 1800's. This person.

It is just getting out of hand.
This racial stuff and digging and digging and drumming up stuff for a change.
Finding reasons that are so after the fact, then cry current racism



Activists want a new name for Lake Calhoun | Minnesota Public Radio News

Activists want a new name for Lake Calhoun

Contending that Lake Calhoun's name symbolizes slavery and racism, more than 1,000 people have signed a petition asking the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to rename the popular lake.

Lake Calhoun was named after John Caldwell Calhoun, a South Carolina statesman, former vice president, senator, secretary of state and proponent of slavery. He is infamously known for preaching slavery as "a positive good" in the 1800s.


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Old 06-23-2015, 01:26 PM
 
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How much will this cost tax payers!

Court fees
All the fees to make and print names changes.
Signs changed.

And there are other places than just the lake that have Calhoun in the name.
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Old 06-23-2015, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Twin Cities
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It seems like the "activists" see race in everything. I think they're the racists.
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Old 06-23-2015, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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Anyone who finds a problem with this should think about the name of the state they live in and what happened to the people it's named after. Unfortunately most of them have been wiped off the face of the earth so they can't really protest. Think of all the court fees genocide has saved us! Phew!
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Old 06-23-2015, 05:45 PM
 
Location: Tampa, FL- For NOW
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awesome I hope they rename it Lake MLK
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Old 06-23-2015, 05:50 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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Weren't American Indians first settlers near Lake Calhoun from the Calhoun Tribe? Thus the name Lake Calhoun? I believe that is a fact. Certainly Mr. J. Caldwell Calhoun from South Carolina didn't name our lake, did he?
Is the heat affecting people.s common sense, too?
I wonder if a lawsuit is next. Can I sue someone... who can I sue? Help! Oh golly...
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Old 06-23-2015, 05:58 PM
 
Location: Southwest Minneapolis
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Speaking of Indians, the name "Lake Harriet" needs to go to. It's not named after Harriet Tubmann or Harrier Beacher Stowe. Instead, it is named after Harriet Lovejoy, who was married to Colonel Henry Leavenworth. Colonel Leavenworth led expeditions AGAINST American Indians in the 19th century. He probably hated black people too.

It really is a shame that all these activists are more focused on white washing (isn't that a racist/white supremacist/white privilege term?). history than fixing the real problems of the present.
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Old 06-23-2015, 06:00 PM
 
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Weren't American Indians first settlers near Lake Calhoun from the Calhoun Tribe? Thus the name Lake Calhoun? I believe that is a fact. Certainly Mr. J. Caldwell Calhoun from South Carolina didn't name our lake, did he?
Is the heat affecting people.s common sense, too?
I wonder if a lawsuit is next. Can I sue someone... who can I sue? Help! Oh golly...
Really, find some facts on that and tell the activists this and the Governor and Mayor, cause it looks like its gonna get changed.
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Old 06-23-2015, 07:24 PM
 
Location: St. Paul, MN
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While I'd probably agree with them that Calhoun was a bad person, it's really disappointing that so many people with initiative are focusing on changing a name that has no tangible benefit when they could instead be rallying for an economic cause like ending the enormous tax cuts for the wealthy so the rest of us could be taxed less instead and hence could afford to pay the rent and student loans...
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Old 06-23-2015, 07:27 PM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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dude was an A1 d1ckhed...I'd make it a law that his picture is at the bottom of every port-a-john
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