Posted on 01/12/2006 10:20:54 PM PST by paulat
An Evergreen Story
On Saturday the Washington Redskins beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17-10 in an NFL wild-card game, which means that this weekend the Redskins travel to Seattle to play the Seahawks, whose 13-3 record is the best in the National Football Conference. The Washington Post, a newspaper in the District of Columbia, reports that this is causing some trouble for a newspaper in Washington state:
To avoid insulting native American heritage, the Seattle Times decided to limit severely the use of the term Redskins in the paper--even if a team with that name will dominate news coverage this week. The Times will not use the moniker in headlines or captions. Reporters can use it only once, as a first reference, in all stories. The Redskins will be referred to almost exclusively as Washington--which could get a little confusing for local readers who also live in that state.
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Ask injun.
You certainly have a right to your own opinion.
You just don't have the right to think that anybody, (but your mother), is obliged to care what your opinion is.
Soooooooooooooooooo..., SO WHAT?
It wouldn't be to something with "skin" in the name...LOLOL!!!
You are absolutely right. I have a right to post a news story here as much as anybody.
...and I have a right to be ignored as much as anybody!!
What term would you use for the Red Mesa high school football team on the Navajo reservation?
Did you not take the time to read post #12???
The Thinskins vs the Redskins..Personally, I think they should change the name to The Washington Indian Redskins..That should piss somebody off.
It is possible to have a few wildcard opinions and still reasonably consider one's self to have "conservative cred."
But some opinions are disqualifying on their face. Your hyper-sensitive P.C. sentiment expressed in this thread strikes me as close to the line. I don't know what your ideological bona fides might be, but your opinion here leaves me with little desire to know more.
I don't get your point...no one is objecting to "Indians."
well, you could say banana peels instead...
The Redskins are a skidmark on the underwear of life.
Changing the name of the Redskins would be as stupid as changing the name of the Bullets to the Wizards.
Not to disparage your position, of course ;-)
Well said, LK44-40, and exactly right.
The editors at the Seattle Times showing what completed IDIOTS they have become.
Careful what you wish for. With the push by the homosexual Nazis, we could end up with teams names like: Swishers, Drama Queens, Dykes on Bikes, Hand holders, Sissies, Rainbow Skins, Head Hunters, Humpback’s,
Good!! I have even LESS desire to enlighten you!!!
I'm offended by this thread.
So some people here disagree with you. So what. Win some, lose some.
I remember getting up at six in the morning with my cousins and fixing a bowl of raisin bran and watching the indian head test pattern of the Buffalo TV station for half an hour before the cartoons came on.
It was magic.
People have to lighten up a little.
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