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US Patent Office finds Redskins' name offensive
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Posted on 06/19/2014 4:51:22 AM PDT by IndianaJax

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins' name is ''disparaging of Native Americans'' and should be stripped of trademark protection - a decision that puts powerful new financial and political pressure on the NFL team to rename itself.

By a vote of 2-1, the agency's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board sided with five Native Americans in a dispute that has been working its way through legal channels for more than two decades.

(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: freepmuch; redskins
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To: IndianaJax

Maybe Snider should start with DEMANDING INDIANajax should be offensive. As is INDIANapolis, INDIANa, any city that refers to a Saint, any team with a ‘Religious’ name, lets get those Rivers and Lakes while we are at it.

Colts, Cowboys, Mustangs, Stallions etc should also be banned.

All players with the name of Mohhamed (First or Last)

I am sure if we try hard enough we can just about BAN everything.

Gentlemen and Gentleladies, we have crested the mountain and heading towards the valley at full speed and no brakes.
The ride will not kill you, it is the sudden stop that will do us in as there is virtually NO WAY this can be completely turned around.

Just like a Drunk or Junkie, ‘You ain’t seen nothing till you hit the bottom’.


21 posted on 06/19/2014 5:13:42 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Better to keep your enemies inside peeing out, rather than keep them outside, peeing in.".)
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To: IndianaJax

I emailed the U.S. Patent Office and told them I find Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben racially offensive and that they should cancel their trademarks.


22 posted on 06/19/2014 5:13:50 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Mr. K

The bigger question is, why was it OK for the previous 70-100 years?


23 posted on 06/19/2014 5:14:21 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: ilovesarah2012

You forgot Red Man Tobacco (don’t use it, but I’ve seen it).


24 posted on 06/19/2014 5:15:07 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: IndianaJax
Tell the leftist perpetually offended professional whiners to pound sand.


25 posted on 06/19/2014 5:15:59 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: ilovesarah2012

Next: You won’t be able to call Communists “Reds”. Not even “Pinkos”.


26 posted on 06/19/2014 5:16:10 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Mouton

http://www.gobluehose.com/?KEY=&DB_OEM_ID=18100&IN_SUBSCRIBER_CONTENT=

Presbyterian College Blue Hose

That’s gotta be offensive to somebody!


27 posted on 06/19/2014 5:17:19 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: xrmusn

Forgot to add

When we let them ‘do away’ with the “Frito Bandito” no one realized the downward spin we would take.

Of course, bumbling, idiotic WHITE MEN are good for the advertising world to ridicule and since ‘they’ insist WE are the majority AND don’t really have a say in it (OR CARE) it will only get ‘worse’.


28 posted on 06/19/2014 5:17:33 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Better to keep your enemies inside peeing out, rather than keep them outside, peeing in.".)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Good catch. I’ll put that on the list, too.

This could be fun.


29 posted on 06/19/2014 5:18:04 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: IndianaJax

I am concerned about what they are going to call my favorite potatoes.


30 posted on 06/19/2014 5:18:35 AM PDT by kempster
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To: IndianaJax
85,000 people out there cheering for their Redskins is disparaging????

Horsefeathers!

31 posted on 06/19/2014 5:18:38 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: kjam22

That is exactly why these offices are infested with leftists.

Positions of unaccountable power over others attract leftists like moths to a porch light.


32 posted on 06/19/2014 5:19:07 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Obviously, this is the greatest problem facing our nation today.

Obama is pulling every squirrel he can find out of every orifice at this point. ANYTHING but the IRS, Bengazzi, Iraq, the NSA, The VA, the invasion of the United States...anything.


33 posted on 06/19/2014 5:19:35 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: IndianaJax
Just one more example of a rogue regime using the usually -sleepy bureaucracy to rule over the people.
34 posted on 06/19/2014 5:19:38 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: IndianaJax

Racist Trademarks. Slavery, Orient, Colonialism and Commodity Culture

by Malte Hinrichsen

http://www.academia.edu/2173981/Racist_Trademarks._Slavery_Orient_Colonialism_and_Commodity_Culture


35 posted on 06/19/2014 5:21:28 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: MrB

Like rabid animals, they jump on their liberal cause to eliminate the name of the “RedSkins”.

You don’t like it?, Too bad, live with it!

I don’t like the “Ebony” magazine but do you see anyone jumping on the cause to remove or change the name?.......


36 posted on 06/19/2014 5:22:20 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: The Antiyuppie

You know, I hated Bill Clinton and all the Chinese money and Lewinsky shenanigans . . But he is looking like George Washington compared to this manchurian leftist muslim.


37 posted on 06/19/2014 5:22:41 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: DaveA37

Rush said this yesterday, and I tend to go along with it.

The fedgov, ie, OBAMA, is specifically targeting the Redskins because the owner was defiant.


38 posted on 06/19/2014 5:23:59 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: IndianaJax

Corporations all over the United States use “Indian” names, and companies have logos and trademarks with “Indian” themes. From the blue-eyed woman in “Indian Princess” garb on the door of the trucks of the “Navajo” trucking company to the “Indian princess” depicted on the Land ‘O Lakes butter packages, stereotypical images of Native Americans are everywhere.

Many corporations add insult to injury by not only appropriating Native images and traditions, but scrambling them in the process. Tuscarora Yarns, for example, has chosen to represent itself with a logo that is a stereotypical image of a Native American in a Northern Plains Indian eagle feather headdress, often misnamed a “war bonnet.” My grandfather —a full blood Cherokee and Tuscarora — was born and raised in North Carolina, the traditional homeland of both these Native peoples. Knowing this, I educated myself about everything I could that related to both nations. Anyone else who took the trouble to do so would know that Tuscarora people did not wear this type of regalia.

http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2008/07/continue-to-consume-racist-food.html


39 posted on 06/19/2014 5:24:38 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: IndianaJax

The next Republican in the WH will need a toilet plunger in every agency of government...


40 posted on 06/19/2014 5:25:30 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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