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I haven't heard an outcry against the Blackhawks, are they the next team to change their name?
1 posted on 06/07/2023 11:47:24 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Chicago has a lot more to worry about than a hockey team’s mascot.


2 posted on 06/07/2023 11:49:38 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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3 posted on 06/07/2023 11:49:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Ever notice that the only ones offended buy Native American Logos are not Native Americans?.......................


5 posted on 06/07/2023 11:54:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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My understanding is that "Blackhawk" was an Indian man, NOT an Indian tribe.
Black Hawk, Indian name Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, (born 1767, Saukenuk [now in Rock Island, Illinois]—died October 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, southeastern Iowa Territory [now in northeastern Davis county, Iowa]), leader of a faction of Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) peoples. Black Hawk and his followers contested the disposition of 50 million acres (20 million hectares) of territory that had supposedly been granted to the United States by tribal spokesmen in the Treaty of St. Louis in 1804. His decision to defy the government and attempt to reoccupy tribal lands along the Rock River in Illinois resulted in the brief but tragic Black Hawk War of 1832.
So Black Hawk fought the U.S. government for its treacherous take-back of land ceded to the Indian tribes. Not many years ago, that would have made Black Hawk a hero to the left. I suppose now leftists hate anybody who fights the expansion of tyrannical government, so Black Hawk was a bad guy.

It's hard to keep leftism straight without a contemporary scorecard.

Or maybe the leftists idiots are confusion "Blackhawk" (man) with "Blackfeet" (tribe). Given the sorry state of their educations and lack of any historical knowledge, this would not be surprising.

6 posted on 06/07/2023 11:54:44 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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What jersey? I didn’t see a jersey.


7 posted on 06/07/2023 12:02:48 PM PDT by GingisK
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The name Chicago, shikaakwa, is Algonquin for stinky onion (we call it garlic), pronounced with a French accent. The team is named for the 86th Infantry Division, still called that today, named for Chief Blackhawk. Why can’t they have a native head as a symbol and why can’t an Armenian, persecuted in their native land, wear it.


8 posted on 06/07/2023 12:03:52 PM PDT by SJackson (he who controls the schools, controls the world, 1870s France)
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Liberals erasing native Americans. So racist of them.


9 posted on 06/07/2023 12:23:25 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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So what in hell is wrong with an image of an Indian?


10 posted on 06/07/2023 12:25:55 PM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. )
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Wow kourtney cardashian who I have never heard of and don’t case about is wearing a shirt of some team that I have heard of and don’t care about because they play a sport I don’t care about. Is someone so useless that they have to spend their time criticizing people who nobody cares about over things that nobody cares about so they can get some attention? And what does that say about someone who posts such useless stuff on a website that exists to discuss politics and issues that relate to our very survival?


12 posted on 06/07/2023 12:55:57 PM PDT by webheart
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