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Garage Logic

Inside GL, ep. 8: The history of Lake Calhoun, forced name changes

Garage Logic

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4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Joe and Rookie review the history of Lake Calhoun and the history of the forced name change. The Mayor presents his thoughts on the fact that there has been no case brought forward to the powers that be, requiring a change.

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0:00.0

So this is number 8.

0:28.6

So we'll do that reference the music and then we'll just start.

0:37.6

Tell me when.

0:38.6

So what you're hearing right now is our newsman, John Height.

0:41.6

John and Dylan Height.

0:43.6

Today's podcast I want to tell you the history of Lake Calhoun.

0:49.6

Lake Calhoun is one of the city lakes in Minneapolis.

0:54.6

And it just officially had its name changed to Badeh Maka Skah,

1:01.6

which is an original native name.

1:05.6

And it's been our content.

1:07.6

It's been my content in since the beginning of this incident that this is an example of what on garage logic is called the mystery.

1:15.6

The mystery is the attempt to remake this country into a country that we are not necessarily familiar with.

1:22.6

And one of the ways you have to bring about the mystery is to eliminate our history.

1:28.6

So here's what happened with Lake Calhoun.

1:31.6

Ruck you away and if you think I'm missing a point.

1:34.6

All right.

1:35.6

It was about five or six years ago that a citizen of Minneapolis got his five minutes on one of the local newscasts pointing out that this name should not be named Lake Calhoun.

1:51.6

Because John Calhoun for whom it was named, former Secretary of War, US Senator, Carolina Farmer, John Calhoun was a slave owner.

2:02.6

And our alarm bells went off.

2:05.6

You can't apply modern sensibilities to past injustices.

2:09.6

The fact that John Calhoun was a slave owner hardly distinguished him from any of his political brothers.

2:16.6

I was going to say brother and sisters, but they didn't have any female standards back then.

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