[quote]During his 30 years on the national stage as a lawmaker, vice president and secretary of war, John C. Calhoun argued that slavery was a positive good for those enslaved, and espoused such states rights doctrines as the ability of a state to nullify federal acts with which it disagreed.
His tie to the area now known as Minneapolis comes from his action as secretary of war to President James Monroe to establish Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers.
But changing the name faces obstacles. In 2011, lawyer Brian Rice advised the Park Board that it doesn't have the power under its rules to name lakes, and that state law reserves that right to the commissioner of natural resources, who is barred by the law from changing a name after 40 years after the name designation.[/quote]
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Does the average american really give a shit about the name of a lake, I mean really.
Bloody politics.
[QUOTE=jonu67;48051448]Does the average american really give a shit about the name of a lake, I mean really.
Bloody politics.[/QUOTE]
The US should rename Jefferson city.. since he actually owned slaves.
Christ it's not like it's named Lake Hangtree.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;48051690]The US should rename Jefferson city.. since he actually owned slaves.[/QUOTE]
We should completely rename all things named Washington since he owned slaves too you know.
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;48051873]We should completely rename all things named Washington since he owned slaves too you know.[/QUOTE]
We should just rename the country to "The United States of We're Sorry for Slavery, Smallpox Blankets, and Drone Strikes".
I go by that lake damn near everyday. No one here gives a damn. Even if they change the name everyone will still call it lake Calhoun, just how nickelodian universe is called camp snoopy by us locals.
[QUOTE=bdd458;48051883]We should just rename the country to "The United States of We're Sorry for Slavery, Smallpox Blankets, and Drone Strikes".[/QUOTE]
Get Canada and the US to form The Apologetic Union
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;48051693]Christ it's not like it's named Lake Hangtree.[/QUOTE]
It's like one of those jokes that make you open a wikipedia page before understanding it. Like futuramas jokes, but offensive, I don't think we should whitewash that he was a slavery defender but also he did other stuff
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[QUOTE=bdd458;48051883]We should just rename the country to "The United States of We're Sorry for Slavery, Smallpox Blankets, and Drone Strikes".[/QUOTE]
Well we can't fix two of those so we gotta stick to the slavery, because the smallpox blankets were nessicary as the drone strikes on slightly random targets
[QUOTE=MrJazzy;48051939]Get Canada and the US to form The Apologetic Union[/QUOTE]
ew fuck no
we're gonna form the league of blow-shit-up-fuck-yeah, Canada can keep their apoplectic union to themselves
[QUOTE=MrJazzy;48051939]Get Canada and the US to form The Apologetic Union[/QUOTE]
Dear god, a union with the United States? No thanks, don't want to catch anything nasty.
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