Florida lawmakers have nothing better to do with their time than worry about being PC. Cities and counties have until October 1 to show they're complying with the new law governing place names. Now towns have to investigate whether places like "Chink Rock" have anything to do with Chinese people (It doesn't.)
Thank goodness I don't have to ban myself:
Then there's "cracker," which can mean uneducated, poor, white people. In 1992, a Broward County judge was asked to decide whether the term is a racial epithet covered by Florida's hate crime law but decided it was not. Former Gov. Lawton Chiles embraced the word as a term of endearment for hard-working, Florida country folk.
Levy, Marion and Putnam counties will have to decide what they want to do with Crackertown, Cracker Landing and Cracker Swamp.
Why Florida's most native group's good name has to be dragged into this nonsense is beyond me.
It's a NAME! So what if it has a questionable past. Now it is a place or object with a unique name and a history. It gives Florida a character that is passed on to us by our forefathers that doesn't exist elsewhere. How many Main streets, Georgetowns, and Washington counties do we need? When someone tells you he's lives in Two Egg you know he's a floridian. Goodness gracious, I was named after a toilet and I'm not whining about it.
Posted by: john at September 20, 2004 08:53 PMlol
Posted by: ArklahomBoy at September 20, 2004 09:44 PMThey can re-name them all "Saltine".
Posted by: Paul at September 21, 2004 02:27 AMDon't make me come over there, Paulie.
Posted by: Donnah at September 21, 2004 08:10 AM