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Banning ‘Redskins’ name would be just the beginning - WILLIAMS
The Oakland Press ^ | June 30, 2013 | WALTER WILLIAMS

Posted on 07/01/2013 4:20:24 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi

There’s a move on to prohibit Washington’s football team from calling itself “Redskins,” even though a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision said that it has that right. Now the name change advocates are turning to the political arena and intimidation. The NCAA has already banned the University of North Dakota from calling its football team the “Fighting Sioux.”

This is the classic method of busybodies and tyrants; they start out with something trivial or small and then magnify and extend it. If these people are successful in banning the use of Indian names for football teams, you can bet the rent money that won’t end their agenda. Our military has a number of fighting aircraft named with what busybodies and tyrants might consider racial slights, such as the Apache, Iroquois, Kiowa, Lakota and Mescalero. We also have military aircraft named after animals, such as the Eagle, Falcon, Raptor, Cobra and Dolphin. The people fighting against the Redskins name might form a coalition with the PETA animal rights kooks to ban the use of animal names.

Another example of the strategy of starting out small is that of the tobacco zealots. In 1965, in the name of health, tobacco zealots successfully got Congress to enact the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act. A few years later, they were successful in getting a complete smoking ban on planes, and that success emboldened them to seek many other bans. The issue here is not smoking but tyrant strategy.

Suppose that in 1965, the tobacco tyrants demanded that Congress enact a law banning smoking in bars, in workplaces, in restaurants, in apartments, within 25 feet of entrances, in ballparks, on beaches, on sidewalks and in other places. Had they revealed and demanded their full agenda back in 1965, there would have been so much resistance that they wouldn’t have gotten anything.

By the way, much of their later success was a result of a bogus Environmental Protection Agency study on secondhand smoke. I’d like to hear whether EPA scientists are willing to declare that people can die from secondhand smoke at a beach, on a sidewalk, in a park or within 25 feet of a building.

During the legislative and subsequent state ratification debates over the 16th Amendment — which established the income tax — the political task of overturning the Constitution’s prohibition of such tax was considerably eased by political promises that any income tax levied would fall upon only the wealthiest 3 to 5 percent of the population.

Most Americans paid no federal income tax, and those earning $500,000 or more paid only 7 percent. In 1913, only 358,000 Americans filed 1040 forms, compared with today’s 140 million. That’s the rope-a-dope strategy. To get the votes of the masses, politicians start out small and exploit the politics of envy by promising that only the rich will be taxed. In 1898, Congress imposed a temporary federal excise tax on telephones as a revenue measure during the Spanish-American War. At that time, only the rich owned phones.

Soon nearly all Americans owned phones. Both the rich and the poor paid the telephone excise tax. Congress repealed this “temporary” Spanish-American War tax in 2006. Nobel laureate Milton Friedman had it right when he said, “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”

The Tax Reform Act of 1969, called the alternative minimum tax, was created to raise revenue from 155 “rich” Americans who legally avoided federal income taxes by buying tax-free municipal bonds. Today more than 4 million Americans are hit by the AMT, and most of them hardly qualify as rich.

Here’s another rope-a-dope just beginning. The National Transportation Safety Board recently recommended that states reduce the allowable blood alcohol content by more than a third — to 0.05 percent, as opposed to today’s 0.08 percent. The NTSB is calling it a recommendation just to test the waters. If the board doesn’t see resistance, its next move will be to threaten noncomplying states with a cutoff of highway construction funds. Setting the legal limit at 0.05 percent is not these people’s end objective. Their end objective is to outlaw any amount of alcohol in the blood while one is driving.


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1 posted on 07/01/2013 4:20:24 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Suppose leftists starting saying that conservative radio and TV talk shows were spouting hate speech, they they find what conservatives say to be offensive.


2 posted on 07/01/2013 4:24:09 AM PDT by stockpirate (GOP = Good Ol' Progressives)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Violent & demeaning colors will be next.

RED will be shamed for being the color of spilled blood and distraught school children everywhere.

3 posted on 07/01/2013 4:24:51 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracker)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Best new name I heard was on Dennis Miller where a caller suggested the sorta anagram “Washington Red Inks”....


4 posted on 07/01/2013 4:25:02 AM PDT by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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To: Kozak

I too find their name offensive. Maybe they should change it to the Virginia Redskins.


5 posted on 07/01/2013 4:32:26 AM PDT by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

The next thing you are going to tell me is that they are going to outlaw Scalping tickets to the games.


6 posted on 07/01/2013 4:34:11 AM PDT by BilLies (The Progressive Liberal American Press will be the death of freedom in this country.)
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To: Kozak
Best new name I heard was on Dennis Miller where a caller suggested the sorta anagram “Washington Red Inks”.

Red Inks is just as good (if not better) than what the DC Council is proposing...

D.C. Council may push Washington Redskins into ‘Washington Redtails’

In his resolution, Grosso urges the team to change its name to the Washington Redtails, noting that that was the nickname used by the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering aviation unit that broke the color barrier for U.S. military pilots in World War II. A plane used by the airmen recently was put in a place of honor in the Smithsonian. Grosso said a change to the Redtails would be a relatively seamless. “You can still sing the song and everything,” said Grosso, before singing, “Hail . . . to the . . . Redtails.”

7 posted on 07/01/2013 4:34:24 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: csmusaret
I too find their name offensive. Maybe they should change it to the Virginia Redskins.

They considered moving north to Laurel, MD. Move them next door to Laurel, put them in Savage, Maryland, and keep the "Redskins" name.

8 posted on 07/01/2013 4:38:21 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
I suggested many years ago on this forum, the Washington Foreskins (not my original). Why not? There are a bunch of richard craniums in DC.

5.56mm

9 posted on 07/01/2013 4:53:41 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

As a person of Irish ancestry, I have just now decided that I’m highly offended that the University of Notre Dame calls it’s football team the “Fighting Irish.” Not just “Irish”, mind you, but “FIGHTING Irish.” How offensive to my people! I want reparations! I also think that those of you of Scandinavian ancestry should protest the name “Minnesota Vikings.” Then there’s the Boston Celtics.....


10 posted on 07/01/2013 4:57:11 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Pollster1

Savage Redskins....Gotta love it.


11 posted on 07/01/2013 5:04:49 AM PDT by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi; All

i am a St John’s alum....went through college on a track scholarship....when i was there we were the St John’s Redman and our mascot was an indian in full headress; great track team, good Div II football team and an even better basketball team (final four in 1985, Big East battles w/Patrick Ewing and Georgetown)...

they became politically correct after i left and changed their name to the Red Storm around 1990; since then the once vaunted basketball team has been garbage and the mens track program and football team were dropped due to the discriminatory practice of title 9...


12 posted on 07/01/2013 5:10:47 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
I always just assumed the Indians themselves picked their "Redskin" nickname up from the Spanish Redskin Peanut.


13 posted on 07/01/2013 5:21:02 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Rubio's New Book: From Nobody To Senator, To Conservative savior, Then Back To Nobody")
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To: God luvs America

Samething happened at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wi. They were the Warriors. Mascot was a characterized indian known as Willie Wampum.

Then some squaw got her undies in a knot and willie was replaced with the “first warrior” a kid in a indian costume like you’d see at any cheap tourist roadside indian store.

But that wasn’t enough for the undie knotted squaws. So soon the team became the “gold” and then shortly thereafter (because teh powers that be FINALLY figured out that calling a team a color was pretty lame) they became the flapping turkeys (or golden eagles or some other such thing that has no connection to university history at all).

I’ve not followed them nor supported them since. Whenever I get fundraising calls I always ask when they are changing the name back to “Warriors”. They give me some mealy mouthed excuse and I tell them to call back when the university returns to being the proud place it once was.


14 posted on 07/01/2013 5:31:17 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

The local college in my hometown had been fielding teams called the Chiefs for half a century. Then, in an orgy of PC self-flagellation, they renamed their teams “Mustangs.”

Every year I get a call from a polite young volunteer on the endowment panel asking if I’d like to make a donation. I — politely — reply that I cannot in good conscience contribute to an institution that so cravenly succumbed to the fashion of the times, but that I would gladly contribute when they change their name back.


15 posted on 07/01/2013 5:31:51 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

The irony is, sports teams compete, or “battle” each other for the “win”, so using Indian related names seem to be a testament and respect shown to Indians as being fierce and respected warriors.

Stereotype? Maybe, but those same liberals say that all Southerners are “racists”.

What are these nanny “bloombergers” trying to do? Push major league sports into no longer keeping score, like they have for sports in schools?

Actually, it smells more like they seek the “lawsuit lottery”, as everyone knows big league sports is big business. This is a bloomburger shakedown cruise, and nothing else.

It’s whie liberals yelling “racism”, again. Seems to me they have “no standing”, whatsoever.

The leagues need to just give them the finger, and say FU. Don’t let that camels nose get into the tent.

Time has come to stand up to those who couldn’t make the team, and run off to cry to mommy.


16 posted on 07/01/2013 5:54:33 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: TexasCajun

Colors- Red banned- Not on your life. it will be the color of OUR FLAG


17 posted on 07/01/2013 6:00:27 AM PDT by capt B
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

If the NFL would stop using the shotgun formation and throwing long bombs and insist on saying quarterbacks have rifles for arms maybe their players wouldn’t be arrested for murder.


18 posted on 07/01/2013 6:08:02 AM PDT by BronzePencil (Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Only if Paul Brown’s name was Paul White.


19 posted on 07/01/2013 6:25:44 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: John O

Good one, John. And Marquette hasn’t done squat since changing to Flapping Turkeys, Barking Seals, Braying Dogs, or whatever it is. I used to live and die by them as a kid when Al McGuire coached there. No more. Same with the Stanford Indians and all their name changes.


20 posted on 07/01/2013 6:32:13 AM PDT by Luke21
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