Posted on 08/24/2011 12:59:31 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
GRAND FORKS – The image Bennett Brien created a dozen years ago, borne into a cauldron of zealous admiration and bitter controversy and destined apparently for retirement by the end of this year, should not be called a logo, the artist insists.
“It’s not a logo,” he said. “It’s a symbol.”
And the symbolism of the Native American man depicted in his design for the University of North Dakota has been misunderstood, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at inforum.com ...
Then they can root for the other team. But, Libtards are Stalinists at heart. Best to silence the opposition rather than talk to them.
They can go pound sand!
Its a sweet Logo, got a hockey jersey even though I’m a Gopher fan.
We did a good thing!! Indians were famous for one thing...the business of warriors...
Politically correct people( i.e. hotheads) promote misunderstanding.
As 1/4 blood Santee Sioux, I go on record supporting this logo 100% My ancestors are Dakota Sioux and, by the way, my late Dad and my late Grandfather’s favorite NFL Team? The REDSKINS!!
The idiot liberals have to get a life.
include the islamic crescent and kwanza corn,,it will stay forever.
Worse are those who want to take Indian words out of the American language. There aren't many of them, but they are as important as the others.
Only professional sh!t-disturbers among native Americans, could have trouble with that representation.
BTW, the second best logo in professional sports is the Chicago Blackhawks magnificent Indian, trailing only the spectacularly timeless St. Louis Cardinals birds on the bat; best manifested in the immaculate home whites.
WOW! It looks like they just copied the Florida State University (FSU) Seminoles, of Tallahassee, Florida!
“e business of warriors...”
That’s the problem. The liberals want the Indians to be portrayed as Kwai Chang Caine without the kung fu. Walking softly through the forest, petting squirrels and wishing a good morning to the trees as they live out their days avoiding meat, sweating in a lodge and smoking weed.
A Facebook friend of mine once said “We should be more like the Indians and live in harmony with nature” to which I responded “Yeah. And we could skin people alive if we capture them”.
Of course, Indians suffer disproportionately from just about every social ill—from alcohol/drug abuse to unemployability. But what do the activists care about? Symbols of a past long gone.
Same thing happened here in Atlanta when some black activists noticed an old Confederate monument in a cemetery that is now in a black neighborhood. You would have thought the world was coming to an end. Meanwhile, nobody in their right mind would go walking through the nearby neighborhood, which is a drug-infested nest of criminality.
Yep.
Put that on a white uniform against the green grass of the ballfield on a warm summer day, with Jack Buck and Harry Carey behind the microphone, and you are in baseball heaven.
BTW the "faculty" member that designed this stupid idea ran for local office - got 23% of the vote...crushed by a very STRONG conservative, Scott Renfroe.
Haven't heard a peep from him since...
Niye Wohglah Bksahh-yah-hahn
(You speak wisely)
We lived in the Denver area when my son was young. After his childcare Halloween party we went to dinner. He was still in Indian costume with warpaint on his face (he was 2). He went around the corner of the restaurant before I could catch him and there were several Indians playing pool. In my politically correct previous life I apologized to the young men and told them he really, really wanted to go to the party as an Indian. They weren’t offended in the least! They actually invited him to be a member of their tribe! Political correctness has ruined our whimsical American spirit. No surprise that oppressive Governments have no happiness in them. We are quickly going that way.
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