Posted on 10/15/2014 10:59:21 AM PDT by Zakeet
Opponents of the Washington Redskins name in Minneapolis are pulling out all the stops to bar the team from using its controversial name during its November game against the Minnesota Vikings. Now, a city attorney will explore whether the Mill City has the legal authority to ban the name entirely.
The decision to look into taking legal action was part of two resolutions recently passed by the Minneapolis city council. The first resolution, which passed unanimously last week, officially condemned the racist, offensive name of the Washington, D.C. football franchise. One councilmember said the name is an affront to a sensitive city.
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As the mother of descendants of Vikings, I demand the Vikings cease and desist using the racist name Vikings.
Loonatics!!!
... with delusions of grandeur.
I hope they do. I want to see a liberal city sued into bankruptcy and the people that caused it chased down by their citizens.
On you Tube.. Forever.
They have waaay too much time on their hands....................
Imagine that. The Left who accused people of book-burning now want to ban words. Is the irony lost on them? Where will they stop? When the bullets start flying?
Poseurs
The Vikings are an offensive impersonation of a football team.
Lemme guess, Adrian Peterson is going to make the proclamation as he accepts his Father-of-the-Year award.
One way to correct imbalance is by the proper distribution of lead weights to modify the center of gravity.
It sounds like Minneapolis has ALL of its problems 100% solved.
The Chiefs were named after Kansas City Mayor Harold Bartle who was known as “Chief”, the nickname that he received when he founded the Boy Scout honorary society, the tribe of Mic-O-Say. The colors red and white as well as the arrowhead logo are direct lifts from the regalia of the Boy Scout Order of the Arrow.
http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/5/18/878497/how-the-kansas-city-chiefs-got
black
white
red
Why can two of these groups be addressed by the color of their skin, but the third can’t?
Do these folks have an IQ over room temperature?
Consider where the name of the city comes from.
Chances are it’s a native American name.
Did the city get permission to use it?
Seems to me some changes are in order...
In depictions dating from the Viking agebetween the eighth and 11th centurieswarriors appear either bareheaded or clad in simple helmets likely made of either iron or leather.
And despite years of searching, archaeologists have yet to uncover a Viking-era helmet embellished with horns. In fact, only one complete helmet that can definitively be called Viking has turned up. Discovered in 1943 on Gjermundbu farm in Norway, the 10th-century artifact has a rounded iron cap, a guard around the eyes and nose, and no horns to speak of." -- Ask History; History.com
STOP PERPETUATING STEREOTYPES, MINNESOTA!!!!!
The Vikings ought to be renamed “The Frankensteiners” in honor of their esteemed Senator, Al Franken.
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