Political Correctness

I'm not the most politically correct guy out there. Over the years, I've told my share of jokes that could offend and I think that there are some people in our society who are too thin skinned for their own good. But today I read about a man who has a summer home 25 miles outside of Billings, MT who's been fighting with the county commissioners in Yellowstone County about the name of the road leading to that home.

The road running past his place is called "Squaw Creek Road". The term squaw has become controversial in the past decade or so. Even though its origins appear to be pure, it comes from the easter Algonquian Indian word for "woman", over the years the term has come to be associated with a less than desirable connotation for woman.

You wouldn't name a road leading to a Catholic Church "Mackerel Snapper Way"; if a family from Italy lived there it wouldn't be "Dago Drive" and if someone of Polish descent moved in you wouldn't call it "Polack Place"?

It's time to eliminate place names that do nothing but show how insensitive we are to our fellow man!