Is the Chicago Blackhawks nickname racist? (companies, leader, Michigan, Baltimore)

[urbanlife78]

So the OP doesn't have a problem with the team name, nor does anyone else posting on this thread.

[Clark Park]

I think sports teams should have cute and inoffensive names ...

The Chicago Chihuahuas
The Detroit Daisies
The Pittsburgh Poodles
The Toronto Tabbies
The Los Angeles Lilies
The Philadelphia Cheesesteaks
The Boston Baked Beans
The Dallas Dumplings
The Seattle Lattes

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by Clark Park

I think sports teams should have cute and inoffensive names ...

The Chicago Chihuahuas
The Detroit Daisies
The Pittsburgh Poodles
The Toronto Tabbies
The Los Angeles Lilies
The Philadelphia Cheesesteaks
The Boston Baked Beans
The Dallas Dumplings
The Seattle Lattes

Those names are offensive to dogs, cats, flowers, regional food, and coffee.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by EdwardA

Don't worry the Dems gotta a law for that!
Lawmakers offer bill to ban ‘Redskins’ trademark - The Washington Post

A group of U.S. House members has offered a bill that would prohibit the term “Redskins” from being trademarked, as the debate over the NFL team’s name expands from the legal system and the court of public opinion to Capitol Hill.

Del. Eni Faleomavaega (D-American Samoa) has authored the Non-Disparagement of American Indians in Trademark Registrations Act of 2013, which would cancel all existing federal trademarks using “Redskins” to refer to Native Americans and prohibit future trademarks as well. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) — a critic of the team’s name — is an original co-sponsor, along with Reps. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Karen Bass (D-Calif.).

Well - America Samoa has to do something.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by urbanlife78

Well do you care to explain why the Cons have some of their members that have nutty ideas? Do the nuts in the right reflect the entire party? There are idiots and nuts on the left, but they don't run the Democrats....that's the difference.

Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid don't run the Democratic Party?

[NoJiveMan]

Examples of eponyms:

Several place names, including Black Hawk County, Iowa; the Black Hawk Bridge between Iowa and Wisconsin; and the historical Black Hawk Purchase in Iowa.
Four United States Navy vessels were named USS Black Hawk.
The United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
The Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League indirectly derive their name from Black Hawk. Their first owner, Frederic McLaughlin, was a commander with the 333rd Machine Gun Battalion of the 86th Infantry Division during World War I, nicknamed the "Black Hawk Division" after the war leader. McLaughlin named the hockey team in honor of his military unit.
Black Hawk College, an Illinois community college.
Black Hawk High School, a rural high school in South Wayne, Wisconsin, is named after Chief Black Hawk. Their nickname is the Warriors.
Blackhawk Junior High School, in Bensenville, Illinois.
Blackhawk Country Club, a private golf club in Madison, Wisconsin.
Waterloo Black Hawks - United States Hockey League (USHL) hockey team.[citation needed]
The athletic teams of Prairie du Chien High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin are nicknamed the Blackhawks in his honor.
The athletic teams of Fort Atkinson High School, Wisconsin are named the "Blackhawks" after Black Hawk.
The Atlanta Hawks were known as the Tri-Cities Black Hawks upon the inaugural season of the NBA in Moline, Illinois. This was in reference to the Black Hawk War fought in part in what is now known as the Quad-Cities, a group of cities straddling the Mississippi River in Iowa and Illinois.
Iowa's nickname of the "Hawkeye State" is a tribute to Black Hawk.
The athletic teams of West Aurora High School in Aurora, Illinois are named "Blackhawks" after Chief Black Hawk. The school prominently displays many photos of Chief Black Hawk as well as a lifelike bronze bust in the school library.

eponyms
Noun
A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named.

[Kracer]

Mathews is right!!! Chicago is a code word!!!!!

Way back when kids would chant the code....."Chicken sat in a car and the car can't go, that's how you spell Chicago"

Banning words is purely an attempt to gain power, no one is offended by use of those names and if they are they need psychiatric help.

This way the offended group has a social justice sanctioned weapon to wield simply to make get publicity for their cause.

[Redraven]

"Is the Chicago Blackhawks nickname racist?"

It is if YOU want it to be!


EVERYTHING is racist if YOU want it to be.


Personally, I don't care. It just doesn't have any effect on me.

[Dumbdowndemocrats]

If Native Americans had prevailed my LaCrosse team name would be Scalped Dead Whitemen....

[michiganmoon]

Originally Posted by Harrier

The Chicago Blackhawks hockey team is in southern California tonight to play the "Anacrime" Ducks at Honda Center.

There was some politician in Dallas a few years back who objected to the use of the term "black hole" because he considered it to be a racist term.

Try telling that to an astronomer or physicist!

There is always some liberals bemoaning the fact that we have professional football and baseball teams named "Redskins" and "Indians" - yet they never complain about "Celtics", "Vikings" or "Fighting Irish".

Hmnnn...I wonder why?

Finally, we have Chris Matthews who recently opined that "Chicago" is a racial code word.

So I had to ask - is the name "Chicago Blackhawks" racist and should it be changed?

Yes, they should change the name to "Northern Illinois Progressives" to not be racist - except Illinois was a confederation of tribes...so "Northern Illinois" would also be racist. Chicago, oops, sorry didn't mean to be offensive, is also on Lake Michigan, so what about changing the name to the "Lake Michigan Progressives?"