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Minneapolis Looks to Ban ‘Redskins’ Name from City
National Review Online ^ | October 15, 2014 | Andrew Johnson

Posted on 10/15/2014 10:59:21 AM PDT by Zakeet

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To: Zakeet

As the mother of descendants of Vikings, I demand the Vikings cease and desist using the racist name Vikings.

Loonatics!!!


21 posted on 10/15/2014 11:08:48 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: Zakeet
Minneapolis may just be too stupid to be a vacation destination.
Know what I'm saying?
22 posted on 10/15/2014 11:10:25 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Cowboy Bob

... with delusions of grandeur.


23 posted on 10/15/2014 11:10:35 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Zakeet

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.


24 posted on 10/15/2014 11:10:57 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Ouchthatonehurt
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26 posted on 10/15/2014 11:12:44 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Zakeet

They have waaay too much time on their hands....................


27 posted on 10/15/2014 11:12:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Zakeet
I woke up this morning and said, "Nothin' better to do... let's ban sumthin"
28 posted on 10/15/2014 11:14:21 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Zakeet

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?


29 posted on 10/15/2014 11:14:22 AM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: Zakeet

Poseurs


30 posted on 10/15/2014 11:14:25 AM PDT by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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To: Zakeet

The Vikings are an offensive impersonation of a football team.


31 posted on 10/15/2014 11:15:19 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: Zakeet

Lemme guess, Adrian Peterson is going to make the proclamation as he accepts his Father-of-the-Year award.


32 posted on 10/15/2014 11:17:42 AM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: Zakeet
Look what else will be banned...

REDSKIN POTATOES


REDSKIN GRAPES..

BAN IT! BAN IT! BAN IT!

33 posted on 10/15/2014 11:18:24 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Zakeet

One way to correct imbalance is by the proper distribution of lead weights to modify the center of gravity.


34 posted on 10/15/2014 11:19:05 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Zakeet

It sounds like Minneapolis has ALL of its problems 100% solved.


35 posted on 10/15/2014 11:19:31 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: cicero2k

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


36 posted on 10/15/2014 11:19:48 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: Zakeet

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?


37 posted on 10/15/2014 11:20:19 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: WayneS

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...


38 posted on 10/15/2014 11:22:27 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: Zakeet
"Forget almost every Viking costume you’ve ever seen. Yes, the pugnacious Scandinavians probably sported headgear when they marched into battle, but there’s no reason to believe it was festooned with horns.

In depictions dating from the Viking age—between the eighth and 11th centuries—warriors 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!!!!!

39 posted on 10/15/2014 11:22:55 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Zakeet

The Vikings ought to be renamed “The Frankensteiners” in honor of their esteemed Senator, Al Franken.


40 posted on 10/15/2014 11:25:11 AM PDT by centurion316
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