Posted on 05/19/2016 3:51:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Nine in ten Native Americans say they are not offended by the Washington Redskins name, according to a new Washington Post poll that shows how few ordinary Indians have been persuaded by a national movement to change the football teams moniker.
The survey of 504 people across every state and the District reveals that the minds of Native Americans have remained unchanged since a 2004 poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found the exact same result. Responses to The Posts questions about the issue were broadly consistent regardless of age, income, education, political party or proximity to reservations. [ ]
The results immediately celebrated by team owner Daniel Snyder and denounced by one prominent Native American leader could make it that much harder for anti-name activists to pressure team officials, who have already used the poll as further justification to retain the moniker.
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The left is out to cause those real problems. Their doctrine can’t allow “bourgeois” society to stand.
actually the one starting all this $hit isn’t even an Indian.
IMO.............
Yeah...the Angels won it all in 2002...!!
Now if we could only find a way to shut down the few Indian activists and the millions of PC white idiots who keep this and other nonsense constantly stirred up, we’d be making progress.
And I’d add that any school using a specific tribal name as a mascot should get that tribes approval as FSU has done with the Seminoles in Florida for years.
We name our teams after strong, courageous, heroic, or fierce things we admire, to foster pride ,teamwork, and a winning attitude.
That’s why we have “The Tigers” and not “The Tapeworms”.
That’s why we have the “Braves” and not “The Bedwetters”.
That’s why we have “The Marlins” and not “The Minnows”.
This whole argument is a manufactured crisis and doesn’t help Native American people at all.
Rephrase that question to see if the nine aren’t really riled up over being hijack represented by the somebody done (somebody) wrong peeresident.
My “city Indians” was a quote from Tribal Chairman Johnson, of the San Carlos Apaches, from about 25 years ago, when the libs went on the warpath over mascots, etc.
Johnson said, when asked how he felt about those who were wanting to end native American-based team mascots, “They must be city Indians”. I thought that was wonderful Indian-sage talk then, and I still think it perfectly sums it up.
I hope that they didn’t get any ideas from George Carlin, who thought up names such as “Cincinnati Mice”, “Hawaii Hamsters”, “Georgia Gerbils” ad nauseam.
LOL!
How about “The Vermont Voles”, The Cincinnati Swine”, “The Sheboygen Sheep”, or the “Rochester Rats”?
Better yet, in the interest of alliterations, The “Rochester Roaches”.
The last one on Carlin’s list there was the Kansas City Crabs, where he did a brief imitation of sportscasters talking about how “the Crabs were all over the Cowboys tonight” et cetera.
hahaha
i will have to look tat up!
Of Course! LOL!
I am listening now. :-)
Oh my...LOL.
I am a Native American. I was born here, in the United States of America, in Grosse Pointe, Mi., in 1958. And, I have no problem with the moniker “Redskin”.
I remember someone once pointing out to me that the little dwarflike caricatures of Indians that appeared on Thanksgiving cards were indeed offensive. I agreed. I notice that they have disappeared.
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