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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Sportswriter Woody Paige had the best idea.
Call them the Washington Racist Nicknames.
Solves the whole problem.
I bet this onieda official would HATE IT if ALL WHITE people quit going to the ONIEDA CASINO that is only a few miles from the stadium. Maybe a bunch of REDSKIN fans should go to the casino on Sat Night in FULL REDSKINS GEAR and just walk around, Not gamble, just walk around.
I am tall and the term GIANTS offends ME and since I speak for ALL TALL PEOPLE I demand that the NY and SF teams change their names. If they don’t I’m going to stomp around outside their games and chant and whine until they do.
Indians stole a chicken from my family in the early 1900’s, I WANT MY FAMILIES CHICKEN BACK.!!!!
“...if redskin is a racial slur...”
Actually, it IS a racial slur, and is as much an affront to Indians as naming a team the Nashville N***ers or San Francisco Spics would be to blacks or Hispanics.
Yet only in Washington, the alleged center of the PC universe, is this affront to Indians allowed to continue.
It’s the 21st century for god’s sake. Why is the 19th century derogatory term still being used as the name of an NFL franchise???
do you feel the same way about Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Oakland Raiders? Aren’t such names honoring criminals from the 18th century?
Sudden arbitrary outrage.
“do you feel the same way about Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Oakland Raiders? Aren’t such names honoring criminals from the 18th century?”
Get real! There’s nothing racial about a “pirate”, “raider”, or “buccaneer.”
“Redskin” is a derogatory epithet used to describe American Indians in this country.
You do know the etymology of the word “ni**er”, don’t you?
It’s a derivation of the Latin word “niger”, which means “black” or “dark.”
Let me know when the NFL decides to allow one of its franchises to be called the Nashville Nigers, then you can tell me it’s OK to call the Washington team “Redskins.”
I’m about as un-PC as they come, but this isn’t about political correctness: it’s about consistency and simple human decency!
“I have killed many Mexicans; I do not know how many, for frequently I did not count them. Some of them were not worth counting. It has been a long time since then, but still I have no love for the Mexicans. With me they were always treacherous and malicious.”
Geronimo, My Life: The Autobiography of Geronimo, 1905.
Ok if u say so then they should change the Name. I’d be complimented to have a team of strong skilled professional “warriors” named after me. (But of course if my team had a bad record .... And dropped the ball all the time, then they could call them the Congresscritters. ? .
When you consider how badly my team played for most of its history, if God wasn’t offended by New Orleans calling themselves Saints, then IMO everyone else needs to lighten up...
I have stolen that...
No, but I'm surprised PETA haven't taken notice of it.
ROFL
There was an American Indian writer who observed:
“Your typical Seminole is more redneck than redskin; he likes his guns, his hunting, his pickup truck & his freedom”.
IIRC, it’s the Seminoles who make those foam tomahawks for Atlanta Braves games. They’re not “offended”.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought of that joke.
What makes them think that the image of an Indian warrior is a negative one? How can you deny history just because that's not who you are today as an nation? Ridiculous!
We used to call them the Deadskins.
Anyone called the “packers” should just shut up and not talk about others names...........
I call them the Foreskins
How about “The Washington tax and spend M#$%^ER F**&^&^%$ers
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