Posted on 08/13/2013 11:45:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
“like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’”
I still say that term, and negro, and black. I will not use the currently mandated hyphenated name.
Two years later, I made a sales call to the casino offices and encountered three members of the tribe wearing Washington Redskins caps and sweatshirts.
I mentioned this to some hand-wringing liberals and they were aghast that the Indians were "still being adversely influenced by a white culture that demeans them."
My reply, "You might have something there. My horse was greatly offended when I told him that a mere human was once named Crazy Horse. The poor animal has been seeing an animal psychiatrist for three weeks now trying to get past that demeaning insult."
The people at the United African American College Fund would like a word with you.
I think Packers is just wrong. Now if they moved to San Francisco..
For some reason, it’s politically correct to say “people of color” but highly politically incorrect to say “colored people.”
If they can’t be the Washington Redskins, why not just call them the Washington Foreskins?
They actually play in Maryland.
I vote for “Beltway Baraqqis”
What is a “people of color”. Is it someoneone with blonde, red, or auburn hair, blue, green, gray, or hazel eyes? Or is it anyone who has brown hair and brown eyes?
“The article, to its credit, acknowledged that the term ‘redskins’ was not coined as a racist epithet....”
Nor were almost all the other words that give today’s oh-so-sensitive folks the fainting swoons. There is probably a term for the psychological syndrome of consistently seeking out ways to hear “racism” in words.
Why do liberals lecture us on so many issues? We get lectured about the evils of capitalism, racism, sexism, bullying of homosexual youth, global warming, and other liberal causes. American Indian team nicknames are another liberal =cause for which we’re supposed to react with outrage that these team names exist. We’re led to believe that our lives will be =complete if only Indian nicknames are eradicated from the face of the earth.
Do liberals have too much time on their hands, when liberals feel such angst over a subject such as this?
I find the term Cowboys offensive. I was a real cowboy in my youth and take offense to felons and thugs being called that...
I am a Vikings can, but I find it offensive, because the real Vikings of yesteryear, were not nice people at all.
The Vikings of old may not have been nice, but at least they would make it to the Superbowl!
I fully expect the Redskins to cave—as did the Swiss handbag shop, the Missouri State Fair, and just about everyone else who gets accused of “racism.”
Hilariously, Syracuse U changed their mascot name a few years ago from Orange Men to just “Orange.” The fruit should be outraged!!
tick tick tick tick......
Red — I mean R-word death watch.
Redskin Potatoes?
Washington Wampum?
It doesn’t matter. Concussions should make football extinct in a few years.
Perhaps there are enough Blacks on the R-skins team for them to change it’s name to Blackskins.
The country is on fire and the world is going to Hell, yet this kind of crap is somehow important!? There are far too many Thinskins.
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