New Mexico Park Honoring 1868 Mass Murderer Kit Carson Renamed to Red Willow Park

[Fred Sanders]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/13/kit-carson-park-in-new-mexico-renamed-over-american-indian-concerns/?intcmp=latestnews

"In 1868 Kit Carson was ordered by the U.S. Army to relocate around 8,000 Navajo men, women and children 300 miles from Arizona to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on what's called the "Long Walk." An estimated 200 Navajos died from cold and starvation after traveling in brutal and harsh winter conditions for almost two months."

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This is a form of reparation, is it wrong?

[redqueen]

1. How on earth could anyone think this is wrong? nt

[Fred Sanders]

3. Many do. Think Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta.........zzzzzzzzzzz

[redqueen]

4. Oh, well yes, many do lose all sense of perspective where sports are concerned.

Those teams should have been renamed decades ago.

[roguevalley]

8. I see it as justice long overdue.

[d_r]

2. of course it isn't wrong

[Warpy]

5. It's about time.

Of course, visiting the Kit Carson "mansion" in Taos is a real education, especially when you know how they were living back east in the same time period. It's grim beyond belief and a fitting memorial to such a grim man.

The park is a beautiful one, green and cool in a hot, desert state. It deserved a better name.

[CBGLuthier]

6. Great, now if we can get that asshole Andrew Jackson's face off our money and name

off public buildings that will only leave a few hundred other pioneers and founders and such who are really just mass murderers slaveowners and other kinds of genuinely horrible people. like fucking Columbus.

[pamela]

7. I visited the Bosque Redondo in Fort Sumner last year.

That is where the Navajo and Mescadaro were held after the long walk. They have built a really nice memorial and museum there-definitely worth the trip if you are in the area. (It is also where Billy the Kid was shot-right on the same property.) Here is my blog post about it... http://postcardsfrompamandlarry.blogspot.com/2013_05_01_archive.html

I'm glad, but not surprised, that New Mexico is changing the name of this park.