The Washington Post reports from Rick Perry's hometown of Paint Creek, on a piece of Perry family property with a very, very problematic name:
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. ...
Continue Reading[T]he name of this particular parcel did not change for years after it became associated with Rick Perry, first as a private citizen, then as a state official and finally as Texas governor. Some locals still call it that. As recently as this summer, the slablike rock ? lying flat, the name still faintly visible beneath a coat of white paint ? remained by the gated entrance to the camp.
When asked last week, Perry said the word on the rock is an ?offensive name that has no place in the modern world.? ...
?My mother and father went to the lease and painted the rock in either 1983 or 1984,? Perry wrote. ?This occurred after I paid a visit to the property with a friend and saw the rock with the offensive word. After my visit I called my folks and mentioned it to them, and they painted it over during their next visit.?
?Ever since, any time I ever saw the rock it was painted over,? Perry said.
Perry?s version of events differs in many respects from the recollections of seven people, interviewed by The Washington Post, who spoke in detail of their memories of seeing the rock with the name at various points during the years that Perry was associated with the property through his father, partners or his signature on a lease.
Herman Cain became the first of Perry's competitors to respond to the story, calling the camp's name "insensitive" in Sunday morning interview.
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