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
“Teams were named after Native Americans out of respect.
Only a woke imbecile can’t recognize that.”