Posted on 06/19/2014 8:41:15 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
The Redskins got a flurry of bad news Wednesday when the U.S. Patent Office canceled the team's trademark registration, because the team name is “disparaging to Native Americans." Basically, it means that the team could lose its federally trademarked protections and could hasten the franchise to change the name, depending on how much pressure the rest of the league puts on Washington for a potential loss of revenue.
While Miami University, now the RedHawks but formerly known as the Redskins, tried to offer some advice on Wednesday, the sports editor of the Seattle Times, Don Shelton, is taking a more drastic step.
The newspaper, in effect, won't allow the Redskins name to grace its pages any longer.
Why exactly?
"It's time to ban the use of 'Redskins,' the absurd, offensive and outdated name of the NFL team in Washington, D.C.," Shelton wrote. "Past time, actually ... We're banning the name for one reason: It's offensive. Far from honoring Native Americans, the term colors an entire race. Many Native Americans consider it an outdated label placed on their people."
The Times isn't the first influential media outlet to take these steps. TheMMQB.com doesn't use the term and neither do the Kansas City Star, the Oregonian, the Orange County Register and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Shelton explained that when he was hired as sports editor five years ago, he convinced himself that a decision that had been made 15 years earlier to minimize the use of the name was good enough. According to Shelton, the Times' policy was to allow the Redskins name once per article and not to use it in headlines or photo captions.
But that stance is no longer appropriate in the eyes of Shelton, who ends his piece writing that he's happy for readers to express their opinions. Yet ...
"Still, your feedback won't change our decision," Shelton wrote. "Some things are too important to be put to a vote."
We need to rename Oklahoma, I suggest Norte Tejas.
“Still, your feedback won’t change our decision,” Fuhrer Adolf Hitler wrote. “Some things are too important to be put to a vote.”
Fascism then, fascism now.
I’m offended by the news rags name (Times). In the future, I just refer to it as the Seattle newspaper.
So you're a "honkey" with LSD flashbacks? Still seeing traces when you move your hand?
Okay. I'll refer to myself as "Tonka hunka burnin love." Oops, just realized that in the Costner movie, "Dances With Wolves", that "tonka" was the word for buffalo. So as not to disparage the Sioux, I'll change that to "Buffalota hunka burnin love". Sioux translation: "Mu-ah lay-wall hu-lah tah-tohn'-kah." I love to love buffalo. BTW, no dis-respect to the Sioux. Hope they get the joke which is on me. If not too bad. I can laugh at myself all day for loving buffalo. Har.
Probably need to shorten it up though and not offend anybody's sensibilities. Let's see: "RAINbowMan". Yes, I see colors...and possibly gay flags since I work out and brush my hair and wear short shorts ...har! Let my flags fly freely because I have nothing else to do other than make a point of my sexual preference. Oops, I offended again. Damn, someone needs to stop me...
Latent indignation???
This is all about the Leftists getting their way — nothing more.
That and Los Angeles (The Angels for short) was named from official documents of Governor Felipe de Neve of Spain, Commandant General de la Croix and Viceroy Bucareli claimed the settlement was simply to be named El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles (The Town of the Queen of the Angels.) There was a longer name originally.
Early Los Angeles was a classic example of the ruling class over-lording the peasant working class, which were mostly native americans. Over time, the Spanish got so rich, powerful, and dominating that they also subjugated the lower-class Spaniards.
Los Angeles has an ugly history. When other Eurpeons took control, they built it into a prosperous city that was once a shining light. Now, it has reverted back to Mexican (Spanish/Indian) tribal conflict, not to mention the wars with the blacks.
At least in the late 1700's to late 1800's, the peasants worked hard for their subsistence. Now, the so-called peasants are all about EBT cards and what they can get from others.
LA is a frigging mess and many areas look like a foreign country. I know because I grew up just miles south. I was actually born in the Queen of Angels hospital in the middle of LA. Now, I wouldn't go near it.
Excellent! I can just imagine the sports page headlines ...
Nope, mostly monochromatic - varying shades of white (or rather, pink and other colors, and the intensities depend on how much I've been out in the sun).
I do own a copy of "Disraeli Gears," however.
The Washington NFL franchise should just quietly change their name to Washington Red Pins (as in pinning an opponent to the mat or in moving the pin or yard markers). And they should make a likeness of Jim Thorpe, or Cochise, or whatever Indian Tribe lived in the Washington area historically as their mascot.
Washington Red Tapes was mY original. But now I like the....
DC Drunken Blanketasses
I still think that changing the logo of my alma mater from Redskins to Redhawks was one of the most cowardly and despicable things the university ever did. When I was a student there, we felt we were honoring the Miami tribe by using that name. However, political correctness, not to mention cowardice, carried the day.
Note that Miami University still owns the copyright on the old logo, so no one can make Redskins memorabilia. I'm hanging on to mine, over 60 years later.
Massachusetts itself was named after a tribe yet the link doesn’t even show that fact.
Weird.
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How about a team name that honors our current President: The Obama Idjits. The mascot should resemble Obama scratching his butt
I guess the Chicago Blackhawks will be undergoing a name change soon? Of course, with Bammy hailing from Chicago,
I wonder if the Blackhawks have been granted an exception from this persecution...
I like it! LOl...
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