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A take on the Cleveland name controversy from an actual Indian, not a white person who decided what offended Indians without asking them. Polls show substantial majorities of "Native Americans" agree with her, and virtually every Indian I know shares a similar view.
1 posted on 07/26/2021 7:41:49 PM PDT by TBP
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Should have spent that casino money on a PR campaign to keep the name.


2 posted on 07/26/2021 7:48:26 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Who’s watching whatever the name?


3 posted on 07/26/2021 7:50:15 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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The blacks loved Amos’n’Andy, too, but the liberals got it banned from TV. I don’t know what we’d do without those racist democrats.


4 posted on 07/26/2021 7:50:23 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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She’s right. They are sell-outs.

When you figure out to whom, let me know.


5 posted on 07/26/2021 7:53:19 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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Those tribes that are upset over the change should all come to one of the big games and stage a protest complete with war dances and chanting.


6 posted on 07/26/2021 7:58:06 PM PDT by elpadre ( )
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White Leftists are cleansing honorific Indian references from the American culture.


7 posted on 07/26/2021 8:02:14 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Democrats do not hate corporations. They hate the corporations they do not control.)
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There have never been “indians” in America. The term was adopted as designating the indigenous tribes found on this continent because the original explorers thought they had sailed to India.


8 posted on 07/26/2021 8:04:00 PM PDT by dadharry
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New logo of the Cleveland Guardians
9 posted on 07/26/2021 8:04:38 PM PDT by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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Same old story: Remove the Indian, keep the land!


10 posted on 07/26/2021 8:05:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“An Indain’s Take on the Cleveland Baseball Team”

Thanks for the Indain position, any word on the what the Indians think?


13 posted on 07/26/2021 8:11:48 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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Cleveland Indians, like Aunt Jemimah get removed from history.

Now no one will know the stories of why these names were honored, and who the real people were behind them.

Marxists can claim another victory in their efforts to destroy our nation's history. 😞

16 posted on 07/26/2021 8:21:09 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a somehow new Socialist America.)
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I grew up an Indians’ fan, since 1975. Lotta lean years there, but it gave me character.
As an adult, I’ve seen pretty much everything I’ve cared about and held up as a unifying symbol ripped down.
Before too long, they’ll re-name my “Phightin’ Phillies” becuase “Phillies” is named after a cigar.
The hell with this world. I can’t in good faith do anything to extend my natural life to hold off the Great Reward of the Afterlife.


17 posted on 07/26/2021 8:23:12 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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why not call them the Cleveland goofballs?? thy still are better than the rangers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noPegAxpw90


18 posted on 07/26/2021 8:23:41 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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I can remember my brother had a pennant from when the Indians won the series. That was back in the early 40’s. Everyone was so proud of them.


22 posted on 07/26/2021 8:32:51 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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“The rain Indain stays on the Cleveland plains!”


24 posted on 07/26/2021 8:36:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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I have a tribal membership card. The name Versions bothered me. But, neither Indians or Braves do.


25 posted on 07/26/2021 8:42:50 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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Being part Indian I feel the same way They are honoring the great warriors who lived in America before it was America.


26 posted on 07/26/2021 8:45:04 PM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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[[The owners will now call the team the Cleveland Guardians, ]]

They never even bothered to see if guardians everywhere were a-ok with the team culturally appropriating their title


28 posted on 07/26/2021 8:56:02 PM PDT by Bob434
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I’d have renamed the team:
The Cleveland Scalpers.
Pays tribute to the old culture of native Americans and the new culture of making a quick buck (Oops, can I say that???) on game day


30 posted on 07/26/2021 9:51:00 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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I’m Cherokee. But I’m NOT “on the role”, therefore NOT a member of the tribe. Because of the “Dawes Act”. Anyway... This reminds me of a trick my sister pulled many years ago... She was working at some place, I think it was called “venture”. She stole a record, YEAH back in the days when the had records(before 8-track, cassette, CD, DVD...) from the store she worked for, came home and told me that she did it for me. It was a lie of course, I never gave a crap about that record. She wanted the record, stole it and made up an excuse for doing so. This recent crap about sports names are the same damned thing! These people doing these things don’t give a flying crap about us, it’s JUST an excuse to do what they want!


32 posted on 07/26/2021 11:54:16 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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