Hasan Minhaj Notes There’s A Spot Called ‘Negro Point’ In New York City
According to The New York Times, the point on the East River didn’t even have a name until 1984, “when a survey team learned the name riverboat workers used to refer to the outcropping of rocks and sanitized it for official purposes.†(In other words, the racist origin of the name was clear, and the name was originally in English.)
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