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White liberals are the reason anything is offensive to anyone. While others have to work for a living and worry about life, white liberal progressives dream up stuff that has never bothered anyone in the past and push it in their faces while holding press conferences about how offensive their dreamed up topic is. It's along the lines of legal commercials and lawyers fishing for frivolous law suits.
So now - since Obama has taken office - Redskins is offensive for the first time since I have lived in the DC area. I have never seen fans doing Warrior chants and imitating tomahawk chopping as they do in Atlanta during Braves games.
I guess the Indians, Seminoles, Braves and other teams are next on the chopping block.
What do we call redskin potatoes/peanuts now?
Good thing I am a fan of the Orioles and Cowboys. No one seems interested in the outrage expressed by birds or white men in 10 gallon hats on horses.
Are you offended enough to DEMAND the Navajo Rez change ITS sports teams name to something that ain't "Redskins"?
"Yet not all Native Americans oppose the term Redskins. Capital News Service identified three majority Native American high schools that use it proudly, including Red Mesa High School in Arizona.
“Being from Native American culture, [the term] is not derogatory,” said Tommie Yazzie, superintendent of the school district that oversees Red Mesa High School. He identified himself as a “full-blooded Navajo.”
Red Mesa High School is located on a Navajo reservation, and 99.3 percent of its students are Native American, according to the National Center for Education Statistics."
In the same interview you quote Mr. Tommie Yazzie, he also says:
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Though he said it was acceptable for schools with majority Native American populations to use the name Redskins, he believes that non‐Native American schools should avoid using it.
“If you were to put this in an urban area where the population is basically white, unless there is a cultural connection, it would be inappropriate,” he said.
He was also troubled by the use of Native American war chants and gestures during sporting events, something that is common at other schools with Native American mascots.
“We don’t use those gestures and traditions. As Navajos we have respect for warfare. Warfare means taking a life. And when a young warrior goes out to battle, [the gestures and war chants] belong there,” he said. “When you come back into civilian life, you don’t take that back with you. You don’t use the same type of gestures and hollering and bring that back into a sporting event.”
In other words, he would find the Washington Redskin name offensive. I am not Native American, if Mr. Tommie Yazzie does not deem it appropriate for non-native Americans to use the name Redskins or other Native Americans are offended by the name Redskins for a team name, then who am I to disagree with them.
As an aside, if I had written I am not a "redskin" would that have been offensive? I believe it definitely would be.
I hope this pissing match over team names does not lead to pressure on the Chicago Blackhawks to change their name. Reason being is they are an original six team and in the NHL it's a big deal.
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