Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:54:31 +0000 (UTC) From: Barb Steinhorst <steinevan1947@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2056290589.2306930.1519145671867@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Offensive names
excellent advice.  If using any of this in a presentation, creat
e a disclaimer explaining what is about to happen, be seen or hear.
Barb Steinhorst -608-415-1939Evan Steinhorst - Evan's PDR-Paintless Dent Re
pair - 608-415-1937
On Monday, February 19, 2018, 3:53:38 PM CST, <historicalsociety@tds.ne
t> wrote:
On 2/16/2018 6:11 PM, William Schuette wrote:
We have old settler's articles and newspaper stories on our Web site from t
he late 1800s and early 1900s, which contain a few derogatory names for Afr
ican Americans and Native American females. How do other organizations trea
t such occurrences? Do we leave them as written with the understandingÂ
that the usage was based on the time period, perhaps with a caveat at t
he beginning of the article explaining why they were retained? Or do we del
ete these references and put a bracket [Â ] 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 co
llected by the People at the Pleasant Ridge Community nearby. I canno
t help but think that they saved them for their posterity to show the thing
s they rose above.
Dennis Wilson
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