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The baseball club in Cleveland was named the "Indians" 105 years ago in honor of Louis Sockalexis, a Mainer and member of the Penobscot Indian tribe who compiled a .315 average during his brief career in Cleveland. But now George Floyd so...
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(CNN)Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians announced Monday that the franchise will change the team name
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The decision to change the team name, first reported by The New York Times, comes at a time when America is coming to terms with its racist past. A summer of protesting the deaths of Black people at the hands of police has led professional sports teams, companies and even schools to reconsider branding, imagery and memorabilia based on ethnic stereotypes and caricatures.
The baseball club in Cleveland was named the "Indians" 105 years ago in honor of Louis Sockalexis, a Mainer and member of the Penobscot Indian tribe who compiled a .315 average during his brief career in Cleveland. But now George Floyd so...
Pathetic. The Indians have even less of a reason to change their name than the Washington Redskins did. I"m sorry -- the "Washington Football Team" now.
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I'm doing a very interesting study of American History, I've mentioned it here. A part of that study is Christopher Columbus, and his mistaken notion, 600 years ago, that when he landed in Central America he'd sailed all the way to India.
Thus naming the people there, in Central America Indians. In Central America.
So really, it's a bit absurd to refer to a tribe of indigenous people in Central America as Indians. Even MORE absurd, to name a group in what is now Maine, Indians, based on the mistaken notion that the Central Americans were Indians. When we start there, it's easy to see why some 600 years later, maybe we should change the name of the baseball team? How about the Mainers?
Fun fact, Columbus never made it to India, NOR did he ever set foot in what is now the United States.
I'm doing a very interesting study of American History, I've mentioned it here. A part of that study is Christopher Columbus, and his mistaken notion, 600 years ago, that when he landed in Central America he'd sailed all the way to India.
Thus naming the people there, in Central America Indians. In Central America.
So really, it's a bit absurd to refer to a tribe of indigenous people in Central America as Indians. Even MORE absurd, to name a group in what is now Maine, Indians, based on the mistaken notion that the Central Americans were Indians. When we start there, it's easy to see why some 600 years later, maybe we should change the name of the baseball team? How about the Mainers?
Fun fact, Columbus never made it to India, NOR did he ever set foot in what is now the United States.
The baseball club in Cleveland was named the "Indians" 105 years ago in honor of Louis Sockalexis, a Mainer and member of the Penobscot Indian tribe who compiled a .315 average during his brief career in Cleveland. But now George Floyd so...
The baseball club in Cleveland was named the "Indians" 105 years ago in honor of Louis Sockalexis, a Mainer and member of the Penobscot Indian tribe who compiled a .315 average during his brief career in Cleveland. But now George Floyd so...
Native American tribes have been protesting the Cleveland Indians since the 70s buddy.
Give me five reasons why the tribes are wrong and you are right, and what life experiences have made you feel confident that you have the authority to tell native people they are wrong on this issue.
A baseball team wants to change its name. Don't by their hats or jerseys. Don't go to the game. There that's better.
I don't understand why everything that happens in this country has to cause some fake outrage somewhere.
No outrage here, just bewilderment at the ongoing cancel culture.
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