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    After Years of Advocacy, Oregon Is Renaming Two Creeks to Remove Racist Names


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    Well, guess what

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...-names/621342/

    ...during an earlier phase of national racial upheaval, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall mandated that all uses of “Nigger” be switched to “Negro.” BGN members grumbled about process at the time, preferring to alter names on a case-by-case basis as usual, but acceded to a blanket change...


    Canada's manipulation of naming locations after those who can't swim:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/quebec-considers-removing-n-word-from-11-place-names-1.3184317

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    The Niger River, near Sherbrooke, was officially spelled with two g's between 1986 and 2006...



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