Posted on 09/13/2013 9:53:01 PM PDT by Steelfish
Washington Face Protests Over Redskins Name At Green Bay Packers Oneida Indian Nation plan protest outside Lambeau Field for Washington's first NFL road trip of season
Steve Busfield
13 September
The campaign against the "Redskins" name will take a new stage on Sunday when Washington's NFL team plays its first road game of the season in Green Bay.
The Oneida Indian Nation is vowing to take a campaign to every city that Washington's pro football team will visit this season, protesting that the name is a "racial slur". Packers fans entering Lambeau Field through the Oneida Nation Gate will be confronted by a protest against the use of the Redskins mascot and logo.
Brandon Stevens, an Oneida Nation official told the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel: "The warrior image is not the image we want to be portrayed. We've moved past the time of Western encroachment and how the West was won, and that's where all the images are taken from when we were a valiant enemy. [Now] We're educators, we're community members, we have families and go to work like everyone else. Having those negative stereotypes takes us back 100 years."
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Stupid. Did I say stupid? Yes, it’s stupid.
if redskin is a racial slur then is packer a sexual slur?
it is NOT RACIST
IF ANYTHING it is a compliment
Good. The Washington Douchebags need their silly hypocritical crap shoved right back up in their faces.
Defending the DC losers?
Nobody makes money off a compliment and that is what this is all about.
“Having those negative stereotypes takes us back 100 years.”
Minnesota Vikings takes them back a ways. Then there’s the Tampa Bay Buccaneers - takes Floridians back to pirate days.
And how about the New England Patriots...how un-PC can you get?
To this...
Screw the Indians, they lost ... live with it.
That’s what “government help” eventually leads to.
But, given enough time to indoctrinate their young and viola! Sudden victimhood.
What was that about packers?
The new name of the team should be the "Washington Lovers."
Change it to “Rednecks”....idiot liberals would NEVER protest on their behalf. Besides, only in a liberal’s “mind” could having something named after you be discrimination.
Me no used to be Redskins fan. Now me heap big Redskins fan. Squaw make me bbq buffalo sandwich and bring me fire water while watching game on magic light box. Me think Roger Goodell, him heap big squaw man.
I like a certain brand of dinnerware and silverware; but I simply cannot stand the name: “Oneida”. I think it is high time we stormed the corporate headquarters and protest the name of that ridiculous Indian tribe on my family table.
Me no likem when Rednecks takem name of ancestors in
vain! You right wing nuts no more comment on this thread!
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