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This may have already been covered, if so I apologize.
Let's see here. You have a high school, Red Mesa High, on a Navajo reservation with a vast majority of the students being Native Americans, and what is the mascot that they chose?
An Indian tribe in upstate NY, I think, is one of the major organizers.
Here is an article from the New York Times just today about the woman who has generally led the effort to have mascot names, such as Redskins, changed:
You do know he was simply responding to a question and gave a simple and short answer? He isn't proposing any bills to change the name of the team or anything.
I KNOW, right? Yet all over the internet people are complaining because the man gave a very low-key answer to a stupid question that he was ASKED.
Jesus. People are so stupid and the dumber they are; the more they complain about Obama.
Would a more culturally appropriate name for them in 2013 be the Washington Casino Hustlers? Would the NA leaders be ok with that as it seems to represent their current role in society quite well.
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