Rewriting history...
CAUTION: This message has some parts that are NOT Politically Correct. Do NOT read if you get offended by things that aren't PC.
A LOT of name changing around here in Oregon. SQUAW is one of the biggies "everyone" (by "everyone" I mean the "left side" mostly) is complaining about.
squaw (skwô)
n.
1. Offensive A Native American woman, especially a wife.
2. Offensive Slang A woman or wife.
Colored people can call us 'White boy,' 'Cracker,' 'Honkey,' 'Whitey,' 'Caveman'... and that's OK.
But when we call them; Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink... they call us racist.
Blacks can call each other niggers but white people can't because that would be racist.
How come everyone called female American Indians squaws for about 500 (that's right FIVE HUNDRED) years and then, ALL OF THE SUDDEN, it was OFFENSIVE.
All at once we have to change calling something that has been called that for HUNDREDS of years to something "nicer". I think that hit here about 25-30 years ago, no one wanted to live on Squaw Rd any more. I don't know if they changed Squaw Mt. yet or not.
(In 2001, the Oregon State Legislature called fro (sic) the removal of the word "squaw" from all geographic features in the state. In line with this proposal, the Oregon Geographic Names Board has proposed renaming Squaw Creek, Squaw Lakes, Squaw Meadow and Squaw Mountain to Tumala Creek, Tumala Lakes, Tumala Meadow and Tumala Mountain. Clackamas County plans to rename Squaw Mountain Road to Tumala Mountain Road.)
They need to leave the original history alone the way it was/is, and ADD the "new" history that disagrees with the history books that are on the shelves already.
Personally, I don't care what Columbus did that we have to change now. We just use his name as a holiday. So, if we take the Columbus out of Columbus day... how can we still have it? Pretty strange, pretty strange. Instead of "What are you going to do on Columbus Day weekend?" it turns into "What are you going to do on Fall Weekend weekend?"
What's Fall Weekend weekend? I don't know. When's Columbus Day? Oh, YEAH, Fall Weekend weekend used to be Columbus Day weekend, now I remember.
What a crock.
What are they going to call Memorial Day? How about 4th of July? Gonna change the name of that too? Labor Day? Thanksgiving? Christmas?
Instead of Thanksgiving, how about Rip off the Indians day. Wasn't Thanksgiving Day the day the settlers and the Indians all got together and had a big feast celebration? Everybody happy and singing? Everyone giving each other presents...
Oh, the Europeans were BAD, they FORGOT to tell the Indians that the little bright pieces of glass that the Indians liked so much weren't worth anything.
They were happy until the "PC" people told them they were getting ripped off. Always the PC people. Always.
How long before there is no Columbus Day in the whole USA?
I don't care one way or the other, but I think that we SHOULD start caring what is being done in the name of being "PC".
Are we having fun yet? LOL
Ken