Activists want N-word gone from Calif. gravestones

[The Straight Story]

Activists want N-word gone from Calif. gravestones

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Time has weathered the 36 concrete gravestones in a dusty, half-century-old cemetery tucked away in a corner of California's former gold fields. Time has not erased, however, the bigotry of a bygone era carved into the markers.

The dead, both black and white, had been moved from a Gold Rush-era hamlet known as Negro Hill in the 1950s to make way for a reservoir.

The problem is the way the markers continue to identify them almost 60 years later:

"Unknown. Moved from Nigger Hill Cemetery by U.S. Government - 1954."

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[guitar man]

1. It is a horrid, ugly word

But I'm not sure that sanitizing history is the right thing to do.

[Scuba]

2. +1

[dkf]

3. Irony is they aren't all black.