New Windsor Terrace bar drops ‘Mohawk Tavern’ {deemed offensive"

New York Daily News ^ | May 9, 2014 | NATALIE MUSUMECI

[MeshugeMikey]

A newly opened “upstate”-themed bar in Windsor Terrace christened “Mohawk Tavern” in April has dropped the name after locals and Native Americans cried foul. “Once we heard the comments and people of Native American ancestry come in and say it was offensive, we figured it would be best to change the name out of respect for them,” said owner Paul Hamill, who will switch the pub’s name to “Adirondacks” in honor of the park and mountain range.

[MeshugeMikey]

Once a Lamar Redskin...Always a Lamar Redskin

let the whiners go whizz into the wind

[Ditter]

LOL! I’ll tell him!

He is still and A%M Aggie,no one has taken that away from him!

[MeshugeMikey]

ahahahaha GET ER DONE!!

[wardaddy]

Utica is an ancient city in modern day Tunisia.

Site of several Punic battles.

Very close to that scene in Patton where Scott says he was there.in antiquity....Battle of Zama

Lots of Uticas here including near where I grew up in MS

[Little Bill]

I thought the Mohawks got run into Canada for siding with the Limeys during the Revolution.

Killed a few family members if the stories are correct, the hell with foreign Indians.

[wardaddy]

The Choctaw tribe in MS seem OK.....pretty cohesive and with less of the bad issues

I have noted out west that Indian run businesses on the various highways are poorly run in comparison to whites

And that the Puebloan folks tend to be a little more organized

Small wonder given they could build apartments pretty early on without the wheel

It appeared to me most northeastern coastal Indians are as much or more black or white as Indian

But the Mohawk from the NY Canada border are pretty real looking.....kinda big and aquiline with great hair

I was just in Cherokee NC yesterday coming back from biz

They appear very Indian....the Real People.....isolated in remote Appalachia a century plus

[dasboot]

Sad when the majority erase another people from history. Sadder when the minority peoples erase themselves.

[MeshugeMikey]

Where is all this PRIDE these people claim to have??

[Vinylly]

I think I’ll get a mohawk haircut just to be politically in-correct.

[faucetman]

Better rename the haircut. Better rename the “Mohawk” Valley. Mohawk carpet.

[I still care]

That is so silly. So it is politically incorrect to name anything after a group of people? I guess half the place names in the the country would be out.

Why don’t we just give it up and name stuff A, B, C, etc?

Here is a politically incorrect skit for a Saturday morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a54Ch8-7g6I

PS. If the name Mohawk offends you, don’t watch this. Your head will explode.

[Mears]

“Removing any and Indian names is a good start.”

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There goes Massachusetts. :-)

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[tophat9000]

But if he called it White Man Tavern. .Everybody but White Men would be offended...how does that work?..everybody has rights to control there own group name except white men ..in that case everybody but white.men has a say

[MeshugeMikey]

HOPE-fully when barry is but a disagreeable distant memory things may begin to return to NORMAL

[mass55th]

They should rename it the Tommy Hawk Tavern.

[Rebelbase]

Mohawk gets walked on all the time by everyone and just lie there like a door mat.

[MeshugeMikey]

ay ay ay Ay AY AY Ay!

[Tanniker Smith]

Sigh. If the locals have a problem, then I understand the name change. It’s bad for business. And the folks in Windsor Terrace like their bars.

[Rockpile]

He could rename the joint as the

BLANKETASS BAR

[mass55th]

ROFLMAO!! Perfect!!