Posted on 09/26/2022 2:53:49 PM PDT by DFG
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre encouraged the Atlanta Braves to have a “conversation” about picking a new name Monday — hours after President Biden hosted the team to celebrate their 2021 World Series championship.
Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News asked Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing for Biden’s position on the Braves’ nickname as well as the controversial “tomahawk chop” cheer.
“We believe that it’s important to have this conversation, you know, and Native American and indigenous voices, they should be at the center of this conversation,” Jean-Pierre responded.
“That is something that the president believes, that is something this administration believes, and he has consistently emphasized that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect,” she added.
“You hear that often from this president. The same is true here. And we should listen to Native American and indigenous people who are the most impacted by this.”
Biden himself had no qualms about saying the team’s name during a celebration in the White House East Room — and noted that its use dates back more than a century, when the Boston Rustlers became the Boston Braves in 1912.
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WOW gotta love priorities, instead of crime, inflation, skyrocketing gas prices, gotta change the name of a baseball team obviously that is all that matters
The Atlanta Hurricanes?
The conversation has been had and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation is on board.
In the meantime, I'm going to do the Tomahawk Chop!
Why would ‘brave’ be a racial slur or insult. It’s a perfectly good English word.
Atlanta cucks?
Okay.
The Atlanta “Let’s Go Brandons”.
They won’t even have to come up with a rally chant!
and i’d want all pedophiles shoved into a chipper.
we all can’t have what we want.
If they were smart, the Republicans could use this nonsense to help Herschel Walker win the senate seat in Georgia, but they aren’t known as the stupid party for nothing.
That’s an easy one. If they cave they must become the Atlanta Cowards.
If they ever agree to change the name it should be to the Atlanta Sir Robins.
They must be city Indians.
They’d better not monkey with the name of Babe Ruth’s old team. Bad Henry might be on board with it, though.
The AAA team in Atlanta was called the Crackers. Seriously.
Atlanta Scarlets!
I’m hoping for the Atlanta Confederates to honor history.
Are Native Americans/Indians the only humans in the history of man-kind to be considered “Brave” or have battle axes?
What is Jean-Pierre’s preference? The Atlanta Berdaches? That would be the opposite of a “brave” and would appeal to her people (the LGBT crowd).
White liberals always solving the problems for poor minorities they could care less about.
What a derogatory name . . . Braves. . . . /sarc
I’m tired of the Commies playing with the King’s English. They are wall-to-wall F-ups and joy-killers. We need to go on the attack. . . .
Atlanta drunks and change nothing of their logos,mascot (just have 10 of them) or the team name.
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