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10/02/11 2:22 PM

#155764 RE: F6 #155741

At Rick Perry’s Texas hunting spot, camp’s old racially charged name lingered


October 1, 2011
Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.
“Niggerhead,” it read.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rick-perry-familys-hunting-camp-still-known-to-many-by-old-racially-charged-name/2011/10/01/gIQAOhY5DL_story.html [with comments]

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"Perhaps now Herman Cain will understand why black people are not so fond of the GOP."