Native Americans Call on Buffalo, NY to Change Its "Racist" Name

Pundit Press ^ | 3/6/15 | Aurelius

[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."

[Defiant]

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.

[GeronL]

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

[Dr. Thorne]

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.

[jimjohn]

Hey Beasley:

WE AINT CHANING THIS!

[publius911]

Native Americans Call on Buffalo, NY to Change Its "Racist" Name

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*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?

[McGruff]

For crying out loud. Stop with the political correctness.

[publius911]

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.

[SkyDancer]

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

[publius911]

Next on the list—Indiana.

Well, Caucasus has a nice ring to it.

[GoldenPup]

This kook clearly has too much time on his hands.

[Hatteras]

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. ;-)

[I want the USA back]

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

[mjp]

"racist and offensive" name.

Indiana?
Indianapolis?

[Flick Lives]

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.

[McGruff]

I think that was the Moonies.

[SkyDancer]

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

[TigersEye]

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.

[The Great RJ]

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.

[StevieB]

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!

[BwanaNdege]

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.