Posted on 03/06/2015 2:24:10 PM PST by rightistight
Mark Beasley, a member of the Navajo Nation, has started a petition for Buffalo, NY to change its "racist and offensive" name. According to Beasley, he speaks for his "Native American colleagues."
Beasley writes in his petition that "Buffalo is the name of the animal that was driven almost to extinction by the non-Native forces in order to annihilate and drive out my ancestors from the American landscape."
Further, "Within only a few years from the beginning of the campaign, all Native nations were driven off their lands and into reservations, where we have prior and since been unduly subjugated and and [sic] exposed to genocidal horrors unimaginable to the rest of the world and throughout history."
For these reasons, Beasley writes, Buffalo "should change their offensive and racist names containing the word "Buffalo.""
If the city does this, they will "End the use of racist and genocidal imagery and symbols toward Native Americans today" and "End the pain and denigration these symbols and images incite and the damage to the psyches of Native Americans everywhere."
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
Oh good grief.
Gotta love it!
Can the Nuge still sing about the great white buffalo? Or is that double racist?
Mark needs to go up on Second Mesa and smoke some more of that good Hopi stuff.
You can’t claim an animal is racist.
Get lost.
No more buffalo wings.
It’s about time! And ban the buffalo-head nickel too!
That’s already been banned, you say? When did that happen?
This guy is a lying twit.
I agree...a better name for Buffalo NY would be Gerbils NY...
Makes about the same sense as changing their name from a magnificent beast...to a little furry creature...
Does the idiocy ever end...?
OK, change the city name to “Bison” then. They weren’t really buffalo anyway.
There must be thousands of cities, towns and counties across America that are named DIRECTLY after native American tribes etc..
Mister Beastly has the perceptual acuity of a small child..
Seems Drama Queen Mark is after his 15 minutes of fame.
One day the Lone Ranger and his companion Tonto were walking through the desert when Tonto suddenly stopped, bent down to the ground and said, - “Buffalo Come!”
And the Lone Ranger said, “How do you know Tonto?”
Tonto replied, - “Ear stuck to ground...”
Evidently a professional Indian. No racism, no job. He’ll drum some up somehow.
How about this—If you don’t like the US, get the Hell out!
Next on the list—Indiana.
What an arrogant, self-important ass!
I think your auto-correct software swapped an 'i' for the 'a' in that last word.
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