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Native Americans Call on Buffalo, NY to Change Its "Racist" Name
Pundit Press ^ | 3/6/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 03/06/2015 2:24:10 PM PST by rightistight

Mark Beasley, a member of the Navajo Nation, has started a petition for Buffalo, NY to change its "racist and offensive" name. According to Beasley, he speaks for his "Native American colleagues."

Beasley writes in his petition that "Buffalo is the name of the animal that was driven almost to extinction by the non-Native forces in order to annihilate and drive out my ancestors from the American landscape."

Further, "Within only a few years from the beginning of the campaign, all Native nations were driven off their lands and into reservations, where we have prior and since been unduly subjugated and and [sic] exposed to genocidal horrors unimaginable to the rest of the world and throughout history."

For these reasons, Beasley writes, Buffalo "should change their offensive and racist names containing the word "Buffalo.""

If the city does this, they will "End the use of racist and genocidal imagery and symbols toward Native Americans today" and "End the pain and denigration these symbols and images incite and the damage to the psyches of Native Americans everywhere."

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: americanindians; racism; relentlessvictim; usefulidiots; wildlife
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To: rightistight

So, how small of a fraction of Navajo is the very native-sounding Mark Beasley, lol? Somebody’s trying too hard. The Cherokee I’ve known would call him a member of the Wannabee tribe.


81 posted on 03/06/2015 4:57:41 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: rightistight
Mark Beasley has too much time on his hands.

5.56mm

82 posted on 03/06/2015 5:02:07 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: rightistight
Okley dokley

From now on it's Behayma, New York.

83 posted on 03/06/2015 5:16:20 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Television: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover)
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To: rightistight

I guess no more RED states next.+


84 posted on 03/06/2015 5:28:59 PM PST by bikerman (2015 new motto--- slugs for thugs.)
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To: rightistight

Need to start changing the name of many towns, cities, and states then.


85 posted on 03/06/2015 5:31:57 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Osage Orange

I’ve been saying, that once they get them to change the “Redskins”, they’ll go after the “Washington” next, since he owned slaves.


86 posted on 03/06/2015 5:34:47 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Can't wait till they go after Target Stores...because the word "target" is offensive.
87 posted on 03/06/2015 5:43:49 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: publius911

And the capitol—Caucasiapolis.


88 posted on 03/06/2015 5:57:20 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: FredZarguna

Indiana has suggested exactly that. The state has billboards —in Illinois —that read, “Illannoyed? Come to Indiana, a state that works.”


89 posted on 03/06/2015 6:01:55 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Dear Mr Beasley,

The people of Buffalo are already being punished by living in Buffalo.

Muchos smooches,
SA&


90 posted on 03/06/2015 7:23:41 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Heaven (I'm Already There)" - http://youtu.be/Eh_eGF3xvmw)
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To: ealgeone

Well, the Native American killed off the Mammoth—So there!!


91 posted on 03/06/2015 7:32:48 PM PST by timlilje
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To: rightistight

Our culture is caving to every whiney 3 year old in the room.

hmmm....

makes a good tagline.


92 posted on 03/06/2015 8:13:37 PM PST by G Larry (Our culture is caving to every whiney 3 year old in the room.)
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To: G Larry
Our culture is caving to every whiney 3 year old in the room.

And the saddest thing is that the 3 year olds don't recognize that the Indian names (or nicknames) were applied out of RESPECT for the native Americans that they were named for.

The "redskins" were renowned for being tough fighters and wily opponents. Unlike being wimpy, crybaby opportunists like the originator of this suit.

When it gets to whining about Buffalo by a guy whose tribe never saw one, this PC BS has gone a bit too far.

93 posted on 03/06/2015 11:10:59 PM PST by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: rightistight

Then they need to rename that icon of depravity - Chippewa Street.


94 posted on 03/07/2015 3:47:08 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: BwanaNdege

I stand corrected, thank you.


95 posted on 03/07/2015 2:49:55 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: mikrofon
I lived within 200 yards of Beau Fleuve for over 20 years.

Cheektowaga or Tonawanda?

96 posted on 03/07/2015 2:51:38 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

West Seneca, actually .... I could see the water on Buffalo Creek from across the street during flood stages.


97 posted on 03/07/2015 2:56:40 PM PST by mikrofon (BeauFleuve BUMP)
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To: rightistight

Maria Cantwell was all over the demand to change the name of the Washington Redskins. I wrote to her and told her I was offended that her state was named after a man who owned slaves. And all kinds of schools and streets in her state are named Washington. I want that changed. :)


98 posted on 03/07/2015 3:06:35 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: mikrofon
Years ago there was a fish fry restaurant named Jake's on the bank of Blossom Creek in West Seneca at Clinton Street and Borden Road. Fried walleye on Friday nights, pitchers of beer and every WWII vet smoking through the night. Blanche was the best waitress by far.

Those were the days when people smoked in restaurants and the waitress was actually named Blanche.

99 posted on 03/07/2015 3:07:29 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Small world, I used to live about a mile west from there, towards Union ... Very familiar with the locale ;-)

I hadn’t been at that place for years; last time was a few years ago for a funeral dinner, from that parlor across the corner. I guess it’s been under newer management for quite awhile.


100 posted on 03/07/2015 4:06:48 PM PST by mikrofon (BeauFleuve BUMP)
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