Posted on 02/14/2013 6:46:07 AM PST by Zakeet
It's a new day with Washington's professional football team. The franchise finally has a quarterback, management that knows what it's doing and an owner who stays the hell out of the way. Mostly.
The optimism around the team hasn't been this high since Joe Gibbs won his first Super Bowl.
Everything is moving forward. The flowers are blooming, the future is bright and the team still has a racist nickname. Oh, wait.
As the franchise clearly takes a turn for the better and is now run by grownups, rejoining the big boys of the NFL, now would be the perfect time for the Washington Redskins to dump the ugly, stereotypical nickname that embarrasses them, their city and their league.
Instead, the team is doubling down on the nickname, publishing several remarkably tone-deaf pieces of propaganda on its website.
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It doesn't seem to matter to Washington officials that the most recent poll increasingly shows mass hatred of the name by American Indians. Indian Country Today, the largest Native American magazine, found that 81 percent of respondents found such images disparaging to Native Americans and 75 percent said the imagery violated anti-discrimination laws.
But beyond the polls comes a simple point: What's the right thing to do?
We've become so complacent with this ugly, racial name that it has almost become comfortable, like old leather.
As someone who grew up as a Washington fan and is also part American Indian, I've found the nickname to always be a dumb and offensive one. More important, I've always been perplexed by why the team, especially recently, has stuck with the nickname.
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BINGO!
Ooops! Still, not too shabby for right off the top of my head!
:-)
Washington Gambling Establishement Owners.
Actually, the first two names that came to mind were Manitowoc and Oconomowoc.
Just change it to “Redspears” and keep the Native American imagery. It’s easy on the tongue, not racist, and not a difficult transition. Perhaps it will lead to certain types of sexual innuendo for a few days, but remember how fast the iPad jokes dissipated. :)
My cousin and I call them "the Persons of Cow".
Cow-Patties would be more appropriate, since that’s what they’ve playing like for the past 15+ years.
Washington Politicalcorrectors.
That would discriminate against circumcised queers and mutilated muslim girls. /s
How about "San FranCrisco Gerbils"?
When I'm in a mood, I like "Dallas Blowboys", too.
Coming of age, my brother’s friends had a game they’d play where any team logo (any sport) would be quick sketched out, from memory, and the “canvas” was always a side view of a kicker’s football helmet. Somewhere, someone has these sketches squirreled away.... I would love to see some today.
The Buffalo Sabres sketch was a riot because it was a crude drawing of a Buffalo literally skewered by 2 crossing swords... but the all time best was the Star of David on the side of a silver helmet.... everyone was pissing themselves laughing... we called it the Dallas CowJews.
There is a lake in Massachusetts called Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug. The name is a Native American word that means ‘You fish on your side, I’ll fish on my side, nobody fish in the middle.’
I know this is a true fact because I had a gig there once.
Well, the actual translation is disputed, but that’s the real name of the lake. So we just call it Lake Webster.
Maybe Washington should change its name from some rich, white, racist, slave-ownin’, cracka to something more black, like Trix, or Lucky Charms or sumfin.
The Delaware Indians used to be a tribe.
I am pretty sure the Potomac river is and Indian name.
The Potomac flows through downtown Washington DC
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