Posted on 05/15/2013 11:13:35 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier
The recent wave of left-wing discussion panels calling for the Redskins to change their name seems to have died off, but not everyone has given up hope. Paul Woody of the Richmond Times-Dispatch identifies himself as someone who would like to see it change. To bolster his case, he went to speak to leaders from three different Virginia tribes of Native Americans.
Give Woody credit for bringing back the results, because none of the Native Americans he spoke to are offended by it.
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Real Indians could beat that smarmy chicken-lipped journalist into a pulp without mussing their hair.
My wife is part Apache and she thinks it is stupid to be offended.
These namings came about in an effort to preserve the indian heritage. I think it was under one of the Roosevelts...sounds like Teddy. Anyways, the old quote I read was “if it wasn’t for the white man, the tribes would have annihilated each other.”
Because it isn’t important.
Because the people who are pushing it want to feel important.
Also, the guys who want the very image of the American Indian to disappear are engaged in cultural genocide.
If a team was called, say, the Birmingham Palefaces, I imagine that would not be tolerated. I like the team but not the name or the owner.
Real American Indians, by and large, realize that human sports mascots and team names (esp. in football) are (with a few odd exceptions like the Cornhuskers and Sooners) tributes to martial virtue: all the American Indian names for teams, past and present, from the Washington Redskins, to the Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves, Fighting Illini, and every high school that has or had the Indians as its team name fall under this general rule, as do, the Cleveland Cavaliers (and other teams with names like “Knights”, “Crusaders”, etc.), the USC Trojans, the Minnesota Vikings, Bethany College Swedes, and (my favorite) the Yeshiva University Maccabees.
As a result, real American Indians like Indian mascots, and really the only people who feel they are degrading or racist are the sort of effete multiculturalists (of whatever ethnicity) who object to the very notion of martial virtue.
Why on earth would you be offended? When sports teams are named after Indians, it’s because they admire them for their strength and courage, not because they despise them.
Why on earth would you name a team or choose a mascot unless you admired what you were naming it for?
This is so obvious that it hardly needs explaining. Only a liberal could be so rock solid dumb and oblivious to it.
Progressives are always willing to be offended for other people if it is a means to gaining power over all people.
They should rename the team: “The Washington Beer-o-Crats”
To reflect the Beltway...
I’ve been on American Indian reservation in both Arizona and Oregon. Both had gift shops and both sold Redskins paraphernalia. The gift shop cashier told me Dallas Cowboy and Washington Redskins items were their biggest sellers.
Another alternative to the Nebraska Cornhuskers is The Bugeaters.
Any self-respecting bug, is rightfully horrified and offended.
Of course they’re not offended by it. The complaints from the D.C. City Council are just another political scam to impress their constituents with the idea that they’re doing something.
Pekin Ill. Had the Pekin Chinks when I was a kid.
> Yeshiva University Maccabees.
LOL!!! I LUVVIT!!
Of course, the “Ben Davids” would have been ok, too.
:)
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