Posted on 08/19/2014 9:40:50 AM PDT by House Atreides
Though the Washington Redskins play for a city on the opposite coast, California lawmakers voted Monday to urge that the National Football League change its name because it is "believed by some to be a racial slur and to promote discrimination against Native Americans."
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But the Redskins ran out on the field last night with their arms raised in “Don’t Shoot Me” fashion to show solidarity with Lil Mikey... Didn’t the CA assembly see that? Don’t they care?
Idiots remain purposefully ignorant of the facts of history. They must be filled with bliss.
They should have voted to make the name illegal in the state.
then pass the popcorn
“Why should the “beliefs” of “some” ever be a basis to coerce anyone to do anything?”
They did it with smoking bans, why not team names?
I kinda like the ring to the ST. LOUIS LOOTERS...now I gotta think of a nickname for the Looters' cheerleader squad..
“now I gotta think of a nickname for the Looters’ cheerleader squad..”
The Looters’ Hooters would have a ready made sponsorship...
California the land of fruits and nutz! Pelosi and her underlings chief among them!
only problem.. Hooters would likely want nothing to do with them ;)
I don’t understand why people are so offended by little bitty potatoes.
“The name of the SF Giants is unfair to short people.”
And possibly a slur against fat people.
Who do they think they are?
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