You are inhaling those fumes again mac_attack!
If you can't figure out why "tonto" is a racist term, then you really are dense! Must be the swampwater.
Without getting into the rightness or wrongness of the term "Tonto," I just want to say that Watie is the king of playing the race card around here, accusing anyone who disagrees with his crazy opinions or challenges his unfounded assertions of being an anti-Indian racist. He's repeatedly accused me of such, without ever being able to point to where I've said any such thing. At one point he told someone that I posted such poisonously racist things that an entire thread was pulled. According to him, every university is hiding secret letters from Lincoln in which he spouts racist sentiments, but which only he has been allowed to see. According to him, New York City is the most anti-Semitic place in America. So, Watie crying "racist" holds little water as far as I'm concerned. He's a habitual liar whose every post on these threads drips with venom, lies, and victim playing.
There is a Tonto Apache Indian tribe in Peyton Arizona.
There is a Tonto National Forest also in Arizona.
There was a beloved Indian television character named Tonto .
How can Tonto be a racist term toward Indians when there's a tribe of Indians in Arizona who use the name?