Custer State Park, why would a park be named after such a Prejudice person?

Question

I don't get why a state part would be named after such a mean, hateful and spitful person. That fact that a place was named after this person really grips me.

Answer 1

You know it better as The Little Big Horn. But many think onlyof the name Custers last stand. In the year 1876 Custer was considered a hero. Can not change the past ya know. Onlythe future. Sorry. P. S. I was there a couple years ago and it brought me to tears to think of the loss of life of the soldiers ,the cemetery tore me up! I am a vet.  70-73

Answer 2

He was brave.  Foolish and ignorant but very brave. /

Answer 3

Likely because he is a man, men are over women we will never have a Betty Crocker park.

Answer 4

Custer was in idiot. Did he think he could send in a few hundred men against thousands of Native warriors. After the massacre he and his soldiers did at wounded knee, that b*****d deserved his fate.  

Answer 5

how about we change the name to "roseanne barr" state part

or rosie o donnell state part.?!?

Answer 6

WHITE history.

Answer 7

There's very little difference between the word fame and infamy. I never understood why he was famous and why people like to hear about mobsters and bank robbers and other criminals like Bonnie and Clyde.

I don't get it either. I'm with you on banning all interest in hateful people like custer!

Answer 8

Skeff is right