Renaming The Mountain

Let me just put this out there, I'm not in favor of renaming things that have been know by other names for years. For instance, in 1987 in Montreal they renamed Dorchester Blvd."Rene Levesque Blvd." confusing anyone who had an old map. That sort of thing happens in lots of places...normally it's for some politician who got their local area a bunch of federal money... I don't like it...it costs money, confuses people and has no point.

That being said...I'm all in favor of this renaming:

LOS ANGELES - County leaders on Tuesday approved a resolution asking a federal agency to rename Negrohead Mountain near Malibu in honor of a black pioneer who settled in the area in the 19th century.

The peak would be known as Ballard Mountain, after John Ballard, if the U.S. Geological Survey's Board on Geographic Names grants the request by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

I'm not sure if the mountain was already sort of named for John Ballard...but yeah...change it...and the worst part is they already changed it TO "Negrohead" because the old name, well...

The name of the mountain, at 2,031 feet the tallest in the area, originally contained a racial slur that even was found on early government topographic maps. It was changed to "negro" in the 1960s.

So to sum up...leave street names alone, change the name of this mountain...and WTF were these people thinking?

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