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Native American groups ask NFL to force Redskins name change
AP ^ | 07/06/2020 | By STEPHEN WHYNO

Posted on 07/07/2020 10:35:27 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: PGR88

How about DC Casino’ers


81 posted on 07/07/2020 1:51:25 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Red Badger
no problem
82 posted on 07/07/2020 1:53:54 PM PDT by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: usurper

“It will be as if they never existed.”

It’s a shame, but you’re correct.


83 posted on 07/07/2020 1:56:50 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Red Badger
"More than a dozen Native American leaders and organizations"

Fake News!

These are not Native American leaders. This is a small handful of Leftist hippie agitators. They do not represent the opinions of American Indians.

American Indians have real democratically elected tribal leaders. Partisan activists have no right to claim a title of leadership.

The article state that the letter was "obtained by The Associated Press." But AP is not publishing or linking to the letter. This is weak stuff, and it deserves mockery.

84 posted on 07/07/2020 2:16:59 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: Red Badger

I guess the PC crowd will complete the revisionist history & erase the native americans from memories going forward?

Indians, Chiefs, Braves, Redskins, Seminoles were iconic reminders of the brave people of this country, imo

bye bye


85 posted on 07/07/2020 2:18:46 PM PDT by thinden
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To: thinden

They’ve still got the military helicopters and the Tomahawk missile, unless those are going to be renamed too.


86 posted on 07/07/2020 3:03:18 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Red Badger

In 50 years all memories of the native American people are likely to be forgotten because of things like this. Would it be a good thing?


87 posted on 07/07/2020 3:05:28 PM PDT by 2001convSVT (Medicare for All = Medical Care for None!)
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To: PGR88

?


88 posted on 07/07/2020 3:13:56 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The “Redskin” moniker never had anything to do with the color of the actual skin. It had to do with a cultural practice amongst the tribes of certain regions using red skin paint amongst their warriors, which made their skins red. So it referred contextually specifically to their warriors, to the tribes or cultures that raised such warriors (particularly in the south-east and middle atlantic), and to the peoples as a whole as differentiated from Europeans - as when the term arose Amerinds were considered to be white.

Go back and read the old documents, treaties and such. The term is used by the various European and American entities to ‘suck up’ to the tribes. It wasn’t derogatory to anyone except for about 50-60 years at the end of the 1800s until mid 1900s.


89 posted on 07/07/2020 6:16:53 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Cecily

They’ve still got the military helicopters and the Tomahawk missile, unless those are going to be renamed too.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Good point.

Where will it stop


90 posted on 07/07/2020 7:39:02 PM PDT by thinden
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