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@nevillesdaughter wrote:

When I was a kid, there was a brand of shoe polish that went by that name, and N-brown was a valid description used for everything from from fabric to dogs. Just within the last 10 years or so there was a public kerfuffle about a football (I think) spectator stand, in Toowoomba. It was nammed the N... Surname stand after a famous local Aboriginal player long dead).

 

In the interest of propriety, and the 21st century, they wanted to rename it with his given name rather than the n-word. A very vocal oppostion grouped claimed long and loud that this was "political correctness gone mad". Their argument ran along the lines that because that was what he was really known as, it wasn't racism - just a friendly nickname. They lost.

 

Marina.

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The stand was named after a white footballer named Brown.  I don't agree that the argument was "political correctness gone mad".  That term is very offensive to most people.  The activist didn't lose.   The stand has been removed.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/**bleep**-brown-issue-laid-to-rest-at-last/2009/02/1...