Posted on 08/10/2023 3:50:24 PM PDT by TBP
Good for them. Glad to see it.
But, where was this group when all of this stupidity first reared it’s ugly head?
Better late than never, I guess.
When will Mother Government be sending them small-pox laced blankets?
(If you don’t know it by now, I HATE the world we’re FORCED to live in these days by Socialist Democrats!)
Out fightingt against it.
Who think minorities are stoo stupid to be allowed to decide what offends them.
Me too.
About 90% of them wanted to keep the Redskins name, according to polls, and the most often cited adjective for how they felt about the name was “proud.” The Redskins helmet was designed by a tribal chief.
But a bunch of #woke, privileged whitefolk decided the Native Americans were actually offended by the name anyway but were just too dumb to understand what offends them. So they changed it, disregarding what the Native Americans told them.
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. https://www.facebook.com/vanagilbert/posts/10219809436853083 "It’s a very sad day for Cleveland. Today we lay to rest the Cleveland Indians. The owners will now call the team the Cleveland Guardians, (should be the Cleveland Sell Outs.) Even though we saw it coming, and we should have been prepared, it still seems as if we’re losing a member of our family. For me the tribe represented something that I was able to identify with. Being Choctaw, it was a team who represented me, something to be proud of. But someone at the offices in Cleveland took the bait and decided it was now shameful to be Indian and I should be ashamed of who I am. I was born and raised in Cleveland area, spent 35 years there... the Cleveland Indians were the tribe that raised me. It was great to go to ball games and see others proud of a team that represented who I was as well. So many bonding friendships were made over Tribe games. Even when I moved from Ohio I continued to be a Tribe fan. Going to see them in Arlington when they played the Rangers. It was awesome seeing the number of people here who were Tribe fans when I moved to southeastern Oklahoma 15 years ago. (As well as Redskin, Chiefs and Braves fans.) These were teams who represented us. That is all a thing of the past now. A new generation has decided they are hurt and offended... sometimes it seems by the very light of day. I wish the City of Cleveland all the best with this decision to politicize baseball and remove a source of pride for so many. But since I have no tie to this new team or the statues on the bridge it represents, to me it’s just another team now. Cleveland has taken away the fun and excitement baseball was meant to be. RIP My Tribe. 😞 Well remember the good times."
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3979465/posts?page=32#32
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3979465/posts?page=34#34
Typical. Erase the Indian, keep the land.
White liberals: When a black person tells you he/she is not oppressed, don’t whitesplain why they are. When Native Americans say that Native American team names don’t offend them, don’t whitesplain why they actually do. Stop telling minorities what their lived experience is.
What do we make of white people who think it’s their job
to tell black people how to be black
to tell Native Americans what offends them
to tell Latins how to be Latin?
Is there a word for that?
I’m 1/128 Native American.” The rest is Scottish, Irish, English, French, and German. None of my blood gets along.
“Teams were named after Native Americans out of respect.
Only a woke imbecile can’t recognize that.”
Football is a warrior game on the playing field. The name “Redskins” was a name of honor to warriors. What the hell is the problem with the name “Redskins”? I suspect they do not want to be called GLBT etc. The Indians were warriors and thus a noble name for the Redskins football team.
YUP, but if you go back in real history the Mojave’s were one of the toughest tribes in the whole desert southwest.
Even the Apache’s would rather not fight them.
yup.
Where did you get my picture?!!
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