Debate Arises Anew Over Whether To Change The Name Of Coon Rapids

CBS Minnesota

February 9, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A local nonprofit is leading a debate over whether to change the name of a well-known Minnesota city.

The group Transformative Circle put up a survey online asking residents and workers in Coon Rapids if they would support changing the city’s name. Part of that city name is a racial slur and often used as a degrading caricature of Black people.

In the 1800s, Coon Rapids was known as a place where land owners would hunt raccoons. Historians assume that is where where the city’s name derives from, but in more recent times, the name has been criticized.

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