Subject: Re: Offensive names From: historicalsociety@tds.net Message-ID: <e7e90e70-acb4-7547-32c5-ea0b4a84b5c3@tds.net> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:27:04 -0600
On 2/16/2018 6:11 PM, William Schuette wrote:
> We have old settler's articles and newspaper stories on our Web site
> from the late 1800s and early 1900s, which contain a few derogatory
> names for African Americans and Native American females. How do other
> organizations treat such occurrences? Do we leave them as written with
> the understanding that the usage was based on the time period,
> perhaps with a caveat at the beginning of the article explaining why
> they were retained? Or do we delete these references and put a bracket
> [ ] with an explanation as to why the words have been excised?
>
> Bill
>
> Sauk County Historical Society
>
Leave them as they are. That is what they wrote and its a good
springboard for discussion. We have a number of racist postcards and
items that were collected by the People at the Pleasant Ridge Community
nearby. I cannot help but think that they saved them for their
posterity to show the things they rose above.
Dennis Wilson
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