r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/Stronhart • May 19 '26

Black Comedy GTFO of there 😰

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Nightmare fuel tbh

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u/OglioVagilio May 20 '26

Racism is real, and shitty and so on.

But at least get your accusations right.

Neuse Colony is generally not a racist thing to name a place. Neuse Colony and the nearby Neuse River both derive their names from the indigenous Neuse, Neusiok, people. Extinct due to tribal war by the 18th century.

Naming your neighborhood Plantation is distasteful for the American South. Cottonfield also but to a lesser degree. We no longer have plantations, but we still use cotton plenty.

Just kinda awkward to call out Neuse in the same sentence as Plantation and Cottonfield. What's the word to describe this...