Posted on 10/19/2013 3:33:07 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Playing Devil's Advocate: Because the word "Celtic" doesn't define a visible,unchangeable, physical characteristic.
I bet there would be an uproar, however, if we changed the name from the Boston Celtics to the Boston Gingers, Boston Whiskey's, or the Irish Curses.
Question: Is the issue with the name "Redskins" or the reference to Native Americans," in general? I ask because I haven't learned of any serious complaints about the Cleveland Indians, KC Chiefs, or Atlanta Braves (except for the "chop').
I would assume that Seltic is correct in that the sports team beloved by every Irishman Glasgow Celtic is also pronounced Seltic, not Keltic.
He is also boring. His bitterness might be due to having a miserable home life.
Or maybe his miserable home life might be due to his bitterness. Decades ago when he came on after Carson he was actually funny, I guess when he actually had to compete with talent in the same time slot he couldn’t hack it. Do you ever remember Carson being so overtly political?
‘Yankees’ should be forced changed
You remember the Atlanta Crackers! Meanwhile, back in 1948-52 I was a Birmingham Barons fan.
If the liberals really want an appropriate nickname for the team, why not the Washington Forekins, in honor of all the pri*cks in Washington,.
To change the names of teams from American-Indian names is a way to lose American history and to particularly lose American-Indian history. It is all deceit and deception. For the under educated the only link they have to the past are these names and symbols. So once they remove names and representation of American-Indians, what is next? Will they decide to remove all evidence of the existence of the American-Indian? Will we have to change the names of all of our places? Should we rename our States, Towns, rivers, lakes, mountains after today’s liberals? Or words that represent the liberal agenda?
We’re gonna have to ban F Troop because the theme song says “Redskin” (and Paleface too)
What IS next? Surely communities and states named after Indian tribes. Sioux has already been banned as a name for a football team.
Black Irish?
This reminds me of the old Soviet Union, of 1984 and other dystopias in fiction. For all these years nobody was offended by the name Redskins and now suddenly it is “Oh the horror, it;s racist!” This is a fake issue, just part of the ultra leftist agenda. I hope Snyder as enough backbone to ignore it.
That’s CHOW-DUH
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