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"It's time to ban the use of 'Redskins,' the absurd, offensive and outdated name of the NFL team in Washington, D.C.," Shelton wrote.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 Many Native Americans consider it an outdated label placed on their people."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."
A recurring theme.
I can’t believe any American would utter such non-sense of a statement.
Good Grief.
The Mpls Star Tribune adopted this groupthink some years back.
I wonder what Chief Seattle would have thought of that?
We won’t buy your newspaper.
;-p
this just in
their BLOG....is taking COMMENTS on the matter...
Reader Discretion Advised:
Excellent!!!
You know your history!
I’m changing my name to Jonny Redskin.
“Hey BOYS..Don Shelton here...lookie over here at how progressive I am!”
Meanwhile the City of Seattle sends out emails to every employee offering discounts to go see the Book of Mormon every time it is playing on a stage in town.
Banned the use of “Seattle”.
American Indian Place Names in Washington State
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/03/1198899/-American-Indian-Place-Names-in-Washington-State
And all of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_in_the_United_States_of_Native_American_origin
Time for all legacy media to be put on death watch...also all jock-sniffer sports hacks who secretly long to be political pundits.
Good grief is right.
As I recall, the Kansas City football team is the Chiefs, or at least it was when I lived there many years ago, yet the Kansas City Star is not going to use the name Redskins?
I see no one in the press is objecting to the Green Bay Packers. Perhaps they saw the writing on the wall when they first named their team.
Wouldn't want this liberal rag named after me.
The “Washington Lobbyists” or “Washington Cronies”
or “Washington Thieves”
Elizabeth Warren was unavailable for comment.
My personal favorite.
Especially with liberals. They literally believe that the average person is too stupid to be trusted to run their own lives. Those people tend to vote Rat.
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