Then they can root for the other team. But, Libtards are Stalinists at heart. Best to silence the opposition rather than talk to them.
They can go pound sand!
Its a sweet Logo, got a hockey jersey even though I’m a Gopher fan.
We did a good thing!! Indians were famous for one thing...the business of warriors...
Politically correct people( i.e. hotheads) promote misunderstanding.
include the islamic crescent and kwanza corn,,it will stay forever.
Only professional sh!t-disturbers among native Americans, could have trouble with that representation.
BTW, the second best logo in professional sports is the Chicago Blackhawks magnificent Indian, trailing only the spectacularly timeless St. Louis Cardinals birds on the bat; best manifested in the immaculate home whites.
WOW! It looks like they just copied the Florida State University (FSU) Seminoles, of Tallahassee, Florida!
Of course, Indians suffer disproportionately from just about every social ill—from alcohol/drug abuse to unemployability. But what do the activists care about? Symbols of a past long gone.
Same thing happened here in Atlanta when some black activists noticed an old Confederate monument in a cemetery that is now in a black neighborhood. You would have thought the world was coming to an end. Meanwhile, nobody in their right mind would go walking through the nearby neighborhood, which is a drug-infested nest of criminality.
We lived in the Denver area when my son was young. After his childcare Halloween party we went to dinner. He was still in Indian costume with warpaint on his face (he was 2). He went around the corner of the restaurant before I could catch him and there were several Indians playing pool. In my politically correct previous life I apologized to the young men and told them he really, really wanted to go to the party as an Indian. They weren’t offended in the least! They actually invited him to be a member of their tribe! Political correctness has ruined our whimsical American spirit. No surprise that oppressive Governments have no happiness in them. We are quickly going that way.
I once had a conversation with a very nice Cherokee woman. I was my typical politically incorrect self and I asked her about her thoughts on the Politically correct issues related to Indians.
She said the only ones that got worked up about team mascots and such were what she called wanna-be Indians. The ones that had an obscure ancestor that was a Cherokee princess. She also pointed out that the Cherokee didn’t have princesses or any royalty.
I asked about the name Indian vs Native American. Turns out Indian is fine. It had nothing to do with India. India wasn’t even India when Columbus discovered America. The name Indian was a corruption of the Spanish words for People of God.
You learn all kinds of interesting stuff when you aren’t PC.
He is using the wrong tack. Instead of trying to justify the symbol to people who are obviously intolerant, who are emotionally invested in their demands, he should accuse them of racism and bigotry, “for trying to purge the Native American from the American culture, making them non-persons, faceless people with no cultural identity!”
He could cite as examples of “anti-Native Americanism” the *lack* of Indian symbols of their heritage in the culture at large. That the NCAA wants Native Americans to be invisible people, limited to just their reservations like zoo animals, and destined to die out.
Then he could even rage at the NCAA for “Wanting to purge American college campuses of any trace of these proud tribes. Will they next ban any classes about Native American history and culture? Will they bar Indians from higher education entirely?”
“People like this bunch in the NCAA are totally racially supremacist in their outlook. The same *kind* of people who took Indian children from their families and adopted them to white families to raise, forbidding them to speak their own language, and stripping them of their cultural identity.”
/Yes, I know it is utter hooey, but that is how you deal with such politically correct imbeciles. Hit them where they aren’t expecting you to.
the thing about art is what is says about the people who react to it.
it’s an absolute reverent tribute compared to that Chief Wahoo on the Cleveland Indians’ caps
