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Native Americans Call on Buffalo, NY to Change Its "Racist" Name
Pundit Press ^ | 3/6/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 03/06/2015 2:24:10 PM PST by rightistight

Mark Beasley, a member of the Navajo Nation, has started a petition for Buffalo, NY to change its "racist and offensive" name. According to Beasley, he speaks for his "Native American colleagues."

Beasley writes in his petition that "Buffalo is the name of the animal that was driven almost to extinction by the non-Native forces in order to annihilate and drive out my ancestors from the American landscape."

Further, "Within only a few years from the beginning of the campaign, all Native nations were driven off their lands and into reservations, where we have prior and since been unduly subjugated and and [sic] exposed to genocidal horrors unimaginable to the rest of the world and throughout history."

For these reasons, Beasley writes, Buffalo "should change their offensive and racist names containing the word "Buffalo.""

If the city does this, they will "End the use of racist and genocidal imagery and symbols toward Native Americans today" and "End the pain and denigration these symbols and images incite and the damage to the psyches of Native Americans everywhere."

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: americanindians; racism; relentlessvictim; usefulidiots; wildlife
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To: Zeneta

Not to mention the states of Illinois (Illini), Utah (the Utes), the Dakotas. Then there is Indiana. And a whole batch with Indian names that are not tribes, like Missouri, Mississippi, Minnesota, Kentucky, Tennessee, Massachusetts, to name a few. Soon, the names will be al Mizuri, al-kentuck and al-missapee, after sharia law is implemented.


61 posted on 03/06/2015 3:25:37 PM PST by Defiant (Please excuse Mr. Clinton for his involvement with young girls. --Epstein's Mother)
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To: rightistight

There is nothing racial about the name, its an animal for ct ting out liyd


62 posted on 03/06/2015 3:26:22 PM PST by GeronL
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To: rightistight
I am offended that this Native American has not changed his name to the more descriptive "Whines Too Much" from the clearly European name "Mark Beasley".

As an "American of European Extraction", it is offensive to me that this Native American has insultingly appropriated two European names to which he has no claim.

Plenty of Europeans were butchered by Native Americans in the 19th century. Now he adds insult to injury by using this European name with clear contempt for my dead ancestors.

63 posted on 03/06/2015 3:35:44 PM PST by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Roman 13:12)
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To: Duckdog
Hey Beasley:

WE AINT CHANING THIS!


64 posted on 03/06/2015 3:38:49 PM PST by jimjohn (You don't get the kind of government you want, or the kind you need. You get the kind you deserve.)
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To: rightistight
Native Americans Call on Buffalo, NY to Change Its "Racist" Name

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

*chortle* and ha.

I suppose that buffalo could be considered 'native americans,' But then so could rattlesnakes.

Aren't redskins (Indians, native-americans, whatever name they use this week) generally known to be the major per-capita alcohol consumers?

65 posted on 03/06/2015 3:43:40 PM PST by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: rightistight

For crying out loud. Stop with the political correctness.

66 posted on 03/06/2015 3:43:48 PM PST by McGruff (Maybe my comments were too nuanced for you)
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To: rightistight
Beasley writes in his petition that "Buffalo is the name of the animal that was driven almost to extinction by the non-Native forces in order to annihilate and drive out my ancestors from the American landscape."

Why is this drunk 'native American' ignoring the documented fact that when it was suppertime, the Indians themselves would drive an entire herd of buffalo over a cliff to get a few steaks?

"Good grief!" is right.

67 posted on 03/06/2015 3:47:05 PM PST by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: rightistight

I thought some tribe was also angry at the US for landing on its moon ....


68 posted on 03/06/2015 3:48:22 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Next on the list—Indiana.

Well, Caucasus has a nice ring to it.

69 posted on 03/06/2015 3:49:50 PM PST by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: rightistight

This kook clearly has too much time on his hands.


70 posted on 03/06/2015 4:00:54 PM PST by GoldenPup
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To: jimjohn

Ahhh... but Buffalo Bill was an indian killer and degraded Sitting Bull as a side show for financial gain. See how easy it is? To beat the terrorist you must learn to think like a terrorist. ;-)


71 posted on 03/06/2015 4:07:40 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: rightistight

Another victim group that uses past injustices to excuse present failings.


72 posted on 03/06/2015 4:12:35 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: rightistight
"racist and offensive" name.

Indiana?
Indianapolis?

73 posted on 03/06/2015 4:29:32 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: rightistight

So these profesional indian winners want to basically erase all evidence that indians even exist by having any indian name removed from towns, places, or sports teams. Once that goal is accomplished, then they can complain that indians aren’t given recognition.


74 posted on 03/06/2015 4:31:13 PM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: SkyDancer
I think that was the Moonies.
75 posted on 03/06/2015 4:37:05 PM PST by McGruff (Maybe my comments were too nuanced for you)
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To: McGruff

Nope ... I get the joke though ... it was some tribe all in a twist over the US landing on their sacred moon ...


76 posted on 03/06/2015 4:39:28 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: rightistight
Fine, change the name to Small Pox, NY.

alt.s,

Infected Blanket, NY.

Fire Water, NY.

Rifles Without Firing Pins, NY.

Wormy Flour, NY.

Rotten Bacon, NY.

Paid Too Many Beads For This Town, NY.

It's Our Land Now, NY.

77 posted on 03/06/2015 4:51:07 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: rightistight

The word Sioux used to describe the Lakota Indians is actually derogatory, so I expect that Sioux Falls, SD and Sioux City, IA and the Big Sioux River will all need new names.


78 posted on 03/06/2015 4:52:23 PM PST by The Great RJ (Pants up...Don't loot!)
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To: mjp
I hope we get this controversy resolved in the next couple of weeks. My 89-year-old Mother was born and raised in Buffalo, Indiana -- and a new, revised birth certificate would make a great birthday present!
79 posted on 03/06/2015 4:52:38 PM PST by StevieB
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
You are correct, they are bison (they have horns, buffalo have antlers).

They are bison, but buffalo do not have antlers. Deer & moose have antlers, both bison & buffalo have horns.


80 posted on 03/06/2015 4:57:03 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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