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I suppose now that coonskin caps are made from dead black people? Sometimes people look a little too hard to find racial slurs where none exist. The word coon refers to a raccoon unless some idiot is specifying a racial slur, and it's usually not hard to tell when that's happening. I think you'd have a pretty tough time proving that Coon Rapids was named to insult minorities. I also think there are plenty of real problems city councils can be dealing with. I'd rather see the guys in Coon Rapids working on what to do about meth, or the city's economy than worrying about how many total idiots will get offended by a name that's not offensive.
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