The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning "red people".
Let's not be selectively outraged... BE CONSISTENT.
FORCE OKLAHOMA TO CHANGE ITS NAME NOW! /s
Yeah and while we’re at it lets change the name of North and South Dakota,Mississippi,Delaware, Massachusetts, Ohio,Kansas, Arkansas and Minnesota. Funny, it’s rarely ever Native Americans who do the complaining. Just some bunch of guilt-ridden white liberals. (Are there any other kind?)
The entire United States of America is filled with names of cities, states, rivers, lakes, ponds, mountain ranges, and even trees that carry names of an INDIAN root. Ever gaze upon the majesty of a REDWOOD TREE?
If you agree with this claim regarding a name is a ‘racial slur’ then better tell virtually the vast majority of High Schools in the country to drop the names of their mascots. Rename the Cleveland baseball team. The Minnesota football team honors a tribe of people who ravaged Europe. There is no end to this nonsense.
One thing I must admit, though. The industry required to change every offending sign across the country would surely lead the country to a new prosperity, and create countless thousands of jobs for Americans.
Yah ?? .. So ??
I am not surprised for I will go to my grave convinced that McCain was a shill for the “Divine One.”
And you would undermine the 1st ammendment as well the commerce clause.
For what?
You fatuous, self serving, Ass....
McCain should be put to pasture this time around.He is an Ass Hole
WHOOPIE WHOOPIE WHOOPIE!
Such wonderful representation!
I vote for the Washington Sunburned and redo the old Coppertone Ad with a couple of NFL Lineman.
Just envision that but not at suppertime.
fascism sucks and mccain is the sad state of our resistance.
Did you know that the name Chicago comes from the Miami-Illinois word for “stinky onion?” Now what does that tell you!
McCain said native americans. Wouldn't this term be just as offensive as Americans is a white man's word any way?
“That would have elevated the stature of the Democrats’ initiative by making it both bipartisan and endorsed by the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee.”
Whenever McCain’s sucking face with the demonrats it’s NOT bipartisan it’s bi-polar.
He’s a White Devil.
McCain: I would have signed that Democratic letter asking the NFL to change the Redskins’ name
Of course you will you...you democrat!
Ergo, Redskins.
Move on, people.
McCain is a moron, a senile idiot who can't see the 100% clueless no-information idiots for what they are.
Most would consider the Bill of Rights, The Federalist Papers, and the Declaration of Independence as inadequate thoughtless documents--- without having read any of them.
If he wants to join that group, more power to him.
Me?
I will call them the Redskins forever.
Just as I call every "Cesar Chavez" street within 100 miles by their original names.
Ten years ago, I was warning that "political correctness would the downfall of the Republic.
Everybody loses.
And let’s dismiss any politician that falsely claims American Indian heritage as offensive and unqualified for public office.
The senate should be renamed the Cowardly Traitors.