Village Road Could Be Renamed after One Person Complained It is Racist
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Stop the world and let me get off !!
A visitor to the area complained about a road name 'darkey road' , given originally as trees made it dark
Now the council are considering changing the name will would cost each resident £40
What is happening in the UK ?
There must be thousands of roads with names that people dont like, i have seen pikey road for example and some that could be said to be rude, like these
Twatt, Orkney,
Wetwang, Yorkshire.
Slag Lane, Merseyside.
Shitterton, Dorset.
Sandy Balls, New Forest
Penistone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
North Piddle, Worcestershire, etc etc
Where will it all end ?
I am with you when you say stop the word and let me get off, Exactly the road names should just be left as they are, I would not pay the council £40 to change it, what next change your surname because it does not sound politically correct, it’s just the world gone nuts
The problem is T you would have no choice but to pay the £40 if the council decided to change the road name
Its not only the cost but imagine all the bureaucracy with the name change, informing all the relevent departments, bank, for example and friends etc , it would be a nightmare, all because of one complaint
telmel it would cost a fortune to change all the maps and reprogram GPS I don’t think that it would be worth it definitely a total nightmare
i agree why the hell bother, its a road name its not meant to be directed at anyone, its a part of history if anything, this example is one of people taking things too personal and too far
This is taking the **** what the hell is wrong with people it's a road name get over it
People have nothing better to do, I mean honestly how many people read that name and immediately associated it with "Race" of any kind, I certainly didn't.
If they want to do it, start a petition to keep it, if the petition out numbers the complaints then democracy should dictate the name is kept or vote your council out at next elections
Near my allotment in Earlsfield there was an uproar last year about Isis street. They should all move to Silly Lane in Lancashire.
History exists for a reason and changing street names, changing schoolbooks and destroying statues just serves to make history repeat itself. To move forward we all need to accept that racist people existed and bad things happened, trying to erase it because it upsets people is dangerous. I am concerned that people are involving themselves without thinking about the future consequences and whether they are being manipulated into following the crowd and creating opportunities for the elite to benefit from. The elite are trying to create divisions within the different groups in society and if they can manipulate people into destroying history them we lose power and control over our own lives as we have lost the ability to look back and check to see if familiar patterns are starting to play out again. The media and elite are playing the race angle to try and shut people down. This isn't about race it is about control through making people ignorant of what really happened in the past. If you don't know your history and your rights then how can you understand what is needed to fight and keep them? This is more than changing things to make them less racist and offensive, race is the smokescreen that is being used to change other things to slowly try and rewrite history.
That's a very interesting and good analogy on what is happening R , thanks for the input
Insanity springs to mind. I just get so annoyed with it. By where we live there's a Farthing lane and at least once a week someone Will come along and pinch the H . It's hilarious and lord help if anyone was to complain.
They have a road in the Black Country called 'Bell End' which would have been completely innocent when the road was named. Some residents tried to get it changed a few years ago. There are just too much politically correct things in this country now, that are trampling over our innocent history.
I agree D, everybody is so sensitive to everything nowadays , i feel like i am on another planet these days
I find that really offensive, please stop bullying me.
The cheek to make residents pay for it is what I can't understand. It's not there fault, they didn't choose it.
I thought the same M , i wonder what would happened if you refused to pay, they would probably just add it to your community charges anyway
Times change and I don't see what the issue is with changing it. The issue should be charging the residents. When the road was named I'm guessing the term "Darkey" wasn't an offensive way to describe a black person but it is now so why not change it?
But it gets ridiculous S
If they were referring to a person, then yes , but they called it darkey because of the lack of light because of the abundance of trees, there was no malice intended
This is the problem with this era, some people are desperately looking for something they can complain about and change
telmel Yeah no malice intended when it was named but sadly racism has created the word "Darkey" as an offensive word.
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