So should we rechristen the Lake under one of the
former names Lake Medoza or Lake of the Loons or
should we come up with a new moniker all together?

David Strand
Loring Park
--- Eric Oines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Minneapolis does not get off the hook here.
> 
> For instance, I would be interested to find out why
> we northerners have a 
> lake, a parkway, a couple beaches, a neighborhood, a
> shopping mall, and 20+ 
> businesses all bearing the name 'Calhoun' - as in
> John C. Calhoun, former SC 
> Senator, VP of the US and defender of "slavery, a
> positive good", in which 
> he claimed, "Never before has the black race of
> Central Africa, from the 
> dawn of history to the present day, attained a
> condition [slavery] so 
> civilized and so improved, not only physically, but
> morally and 
> intellectually."
> 
> Full text:
>
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=71
> 
> The city website is noticably absent of info of
> Calhoun's more notorious 
> opinions:
> 
>
http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=4&parkid=263
> 
> Anybody know why there is nary a peep on this
> subject?
> 
> Eric Oines
> North Minneapolis
> 
> "When I despair, I remember that all through history
> the way of truth and 
> love has always won. There have been tyrants and
> murderers and for a time 
> they seem invincible, but in the end, they always
> fall - think of it, 
> always."
> ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Agitator
> 
> 
> 
> 
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