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Fighting Whities Mascot Causes Stir
Associated Press
| Saturday, March 16, 2002
| By NICK WADHAMS
Posted on 03/16/2002 4:07:20 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: SpookBrat
I thought it was funny too. Probably because I actually have an ounce of self esteem. I'll be wearing my t-shirt soon.
To: aruanan
Have you noticed that their website describes their team as composed of "Native Americans and non-Indians"? Shouldn't that be non-Native Americans? Unless they're talking about people who are not from India.
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Actually it should read: "American Aborgines and non-Europeans". Though I admit, it's not quite as catchy. But seriously, a "native American" is anyone born within the national boundries of the United States-- no matter what their color, physcial back round, or whatever. A full blooded Sioux whose mother gave birth to him while visiting friends in Canada is NOT a "native American".
To: Marauder
Yeah, I'm for sure "paleface". I don't tan; just burn, peel and freckle. LOL
To: Republic of Texas
Take a picture of you in it and put it behind your name. :) It's funny because they were really trying to "sock it to us" and now it's biting them in the butt. I wonder how they will spin it?
To: JohnHuang2
Hey Y'all can't we do the same thing but change the logo and the Name slightly and sell the shirts? I know someone has got some freeper stuff for sale maybe this would be an excellent money-maker for some enterprising freeper! (I love Capitalism)
To: JohnHuang2
``It's obvious some of the people are taking it the way it's not supposed to be taken,'' said team member Jeff VanIwarden.Well, theyre not too upset about it!
My email to them:
Please send me a price list for your shirts. I am a delegate to the Republican District Convention in SE Texas (Tom DeLay's hometown) in three weeks and can sell at least a hundred.
Their REPLY:
Thanks for asking about shirts! We finally got a store online where you can
get them. It's at:
http://www.cafepress.com/fightinwhite
We're working on a Web site too (it's not up yet but will be soon). It will
be at:
http://www.fightingwhites.org
Thanks for your support,
The Fighting Whites Team
To: rface
We're havin our own T-shirts printed, keeping with the time honored tradition of white guys rippin off the indians.
What are they gonna do? Sue me?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
To: Nowhere Man
What a model democrat! A whining, lying, irresponsible, work-dodging, freeloader. Wouldn't it be great to see the RNC use Dr. Smith in ads aimed at the baby boomers? Al Gore, the inventor of space travel, in Lost in Space ...
Maybe we could get Registered to produce a sample?
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posted on
03/16/2002 9:27:30 AM PST
by
watchin
To: Bryan
I went to Grad school at U of I. Go Illini!
69
posted on
03/16/2002 9:34:56 AM PST
by
ironman
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
Beware of the cafepress.com shirt: it is politically corrected. Go to their website and take a look at the comment on the back.
To: Kermit
"Never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his mocassins ..."And the little known second line:
"... that way, when you DO judge him, you'll be a mile away, AND you'll have his mocassins."
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posted on
03/16/2002 9:52:12 AM PST
by
watchin
To: Kermit
As the leader of one of the largest and most progressive Tribes in the United States, I am writing this letter to appeal to Eaton High School to change the name of their team mascots. If he is serious about this, he'll offer to EXCHANGE names. Let the Eaton high school take the name 'Fighting Whities'.
Just wait, this is going to swing around again. The Libs are going to get REALLY PO'd over this. They have no sense of humor, and are pi$$ed if they cann't be pi@@ed.
To: Kermit
The team, made up of American Indian, Anglo and Hispanic players Does anyone else think it is stupid to use the term "Anglo" to describe all white people? Many white people have Celtic, Slavic, Latin, or Germanic roots, and little or no Anglo-Saxon ancestry. To me, using "Anglo" this way is like calling all indigenous Americans "Commanches," even if he is actually a Mayan, Incan, or Apache.
73
posted on
03/16/2002 10:14:11 AM PST
by
timm22
To: timm22
"Does anyone else think it is stupid OFFENSIVE to use the term "Anglo" to describe all white people?"
To: yankeedame
A full blooded Sioux whose mother gave birth to him while visiting friends in Canada is NOT a "native American".
Sure, he is. Anyone born in the Americas is an American; more specifically North American (Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Central American, or South American. The problem is that too many have accepted "American" as being synonymous with "U.S. citizen". This is just a result of "United States citizen" being so long to say compared to the abbreviated "American".
75
posted on
03/16/2002 11:26:06 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: JohnHuang2
Too bad the kids are liberals!
76
posted on
03/16/2002 11:36:21 AM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: Kermit
I *knew* that logo looked familiar! I think it is from the Church of the Subgenius.
To: Bryan
Good post #15, Bryan. Thanks.
To: fish hawk
Do they have a conservative newspaper at Stanford? If so, maybe you could allow them to interview you on the subject and have the interview published. That way, at least, the history will be properly recorded.
To: SpookBrat
OOOOOOOh, I'm gonna tell dad....you said 'honky'.
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