Why Rick Perry’s Racist Hunting Camp Sign Matters
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Texas Governor Rick Perry just can’t seem to catch a break. The latest in a long series of political punches came Saturday, when the Washington Post broke the story of Perry’s family hunting camp which was for many years named “Niggerhead.” While the Perry campaign has claimed that the sign with the offensive name was painted over by Perry’s parents in 1983, several people interviewed by the Washington Post claim otherwise:
“I remember the first time I went through that pasture and saw that,” said Ronnie Brooks, a retired game warden who began working in the region in 1981 and who said he guided three or four turkey shoots for Rick Perry when Perry was a state legislator between 1985 and 1990. “. . . It kind of offended me, truthfully.”
Brooks, who said he holds Perry “in the highest esteem,” said that at some point after Perry began
