Posted on 01/23/2010 3:56:16 PM PST by real saxophonist
I hear that Animal-Americans are getting pretty peeved, too, and are ready to fight back hard. They have the Oregon Ducks, Beavers, Washington Huskies, Cal’s Oskie the Bear, Colorado’s Ralphie the Bison and Peter the Anteater in their sights — just for starters.
A couple of years ago, driving through the Navajo reservation in AZ, I saw a middle school with one of those mascot names like redskins or braves or something. I figure if they’re using it themselves for the name of their team, it’s not really a big issue, is it?
Also, why not be proud of an image of toughness and cleverness in battle? In the high school district I grew up in, there were Highlanders, Matadors, Norsemen, Sultans, and a couple of others. I never saw any Scottish, Spaniards, Norwegians or Arabs take offense. Why should they? I may be naive about just how offensive this is in some locales, but the basic idea of naming a team after the fighters of a given culture is really kind of cool. Do any other countries name their sports teams like that, with a nod to different fighters from different places? I’m thinking there are probably no Yankees mascots in Chinese high schools, or Aztecs in Brazilian high schools.
Soon they will only be known by their casinos
Florida State has A VERY good relation with the Seminoles who like having their name remembered and honored.
The same goes for numerous Indian nations who are very proud to have their tribes honored by schools.
Those who are the most offended are white progressive.
You get the idea!
Always someone around prepared to commit cultural genocide against American Indians. They’ve even got a Quisling or two lined up to lie for them.
That’s just WRONG on so many levels!!!
The joint forces against racism needed a new logo - a banner to rally around - which constantly reminds us of the two undeniable sources of all racial problems in America today.
Here is what they came up with.
Names like “the Brown Bomber” or “The Big Hurt” are designed perpetuate fear of African-Americans among white folks, who, in turn, are inspired to over react with names like “Pistol Pete” Reiser and Carl “The Rifle” Furillo.
The establishment also seeks to maintain its elite status with thinly veiled efforts to perpetuate ethnic stereotypes. Who can forget the “Yankee Clipper”. As if all Italian Americans know anything about is how to give haircuts.
And what about Karl Malone, “The Mailman”. It really grates at us native Irish when one of our kind who makes it big in basketball is dismissed as a mere “mailman”.
“Williams, who is an American Indian, said the timing is right for the bill.”
Williams, who is a commie Indian - red inside and outside - said I want to castrate Indian men.
so let’s take this $1000 a month and use it to pay the fine instead of buying school supplies. and who is going to pay for new logos, band uniforms, sports unilforms, etc? bet that libtard didn’t think that far ahead. good thing unemployment is down and we have a budget surplus so idiots like her can waste the legeislative’s time and my tax dollars on this bs.
Nobody seems to think of the obvious. Tribes have sacred symbols that are precious to them, but they can also create more public symbols for licensed use, that reference the tribe as historically important in that area, but is not patronizing.
For example, you would be hard pressed to find a member of the Apache tribe who is offended with the US military naming a helicopter gunship after their tribe. Especially a kick ass lethal helicopter like the Apache. The Apache were and remain a warrior tribe, and they were very, very good at it, and many of the tribe to this day serve honorably and with distinction in both the US Army and US Marine Corps.
So what about sports teams? Well, it is unlikely that any tribe would want a sports team to use their tribal name. However, they might be willing to lend a common symbol, like an animal, given a tribal language name. So instead of a team called something mundane, like the “Springfield Bears”, they would call themselves the “Springfield Matos”, for example, which would be Lakota for ‘bears’.
Such things are meaningless to those who push this type of legislation. I mean, that these very terms, "honor", "heroism", etc., actually evaluate to "null" in their cultural calculus.
No use trying to explain it to such people. Besides, they only deserve to be laughed at anyway.
I would think American Indians would be proud to have sports mascots associated with them. Isn’t the idea to have a name that sounds courageous, brave, glorious, fierce, etc. I mean who wants their school to be known as the ‘Fight’n French’.
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