Let’s purify and forget everything that occurred prior to the advent of the Obama regime since references to US history no longer has any value.
They need to ask the permanently outraged. Then they’ll get the answer they want.
Ug
“GO - People of a particular reddish-brown (no offense) color associated with native and indigenous peoples who inhabited North America before the White man decimated him Seminoles, Go!
When a US President has to speak about PC football team names then we are in big trouble, big trouble.
Does this mean we have to drop the following names and change them to:
Atlanta Braves - Atlanta very strong somewhat warrior native Americans?
Pittsburgh Pirates - Pittsburgh ones of underprivileged status therefore requiring the temporary suspension of maritime law in order to remove goods from wealthy Capitalist shipping firms, just so the can eat.
Cleveland Indians - Cleveland native tribes people who inhabited the Ohio river valley until the white man killed him.
How stupid can you be? Have the Indian peoples asked for this change or is it being dictated from the WH?
The Left lives by manipulating anger and guilt. So they go about probing, stirring a little anger here, a little guilt there, just seeing what works. If they get a little anger, they offer themselves as the solution. If they manage to stir a little guilt, then they offer themselves as absolution.
If it isn’t one thing, it will be another. It never helps to give in to them because they must, must, keep probing, keep agitating, keep accusing. How else are they going to harness the unhappy and disarm the guilt-ridden masses?
Potato farmers everywhere are OK with the name.
Call them the Yellow Bellies.
Whatever it is, I’m against it. Groucho Marx
A liberal once told me how insensitive the word “indian” was. I was a little confused, since I knew quite a few indians and they called themselves indians. One of them even had an “Indians Discovered America” bumper sticker.
These two guys used to put on cultural shows around town, doing authentic pow wows. One of them told me that at their then-most recent show, their sheets with the words blew away, so they started doing the stereotypical “hey-ya, hey-ya, hey-ya!” “The crowd didn’t know the difference!” He was a fun guy—a little prone to BS stories—so I don’t know if it’s true. It should be, though.
Another fun story from this guy: he said he was on the baseball diamond, playing some pick-up baseball, when a kid rode up and breathlessly told them that Jimi Hendrix had died. This guy was my guitar teacher, so I said, “Oh, wow! Were you pretty broken up?” “Nah,” he replied. “I was more into the Archies at that point.” Real deadpan.
His favorite movie was Billy Jack. He’d slowmo it on the scene with the roundhouse kick and say, “Look! Billy Jack just turned Chinese!” The stuntman was really Korean, but he got a big kick (no pun intended) out of that.
Ok!
My list:
Abortion
Homosexuality
Islam
Welfare recipients
Illegals
Alec Baldiwn
Chris Matthews
When Obama decided to yet again stick his big POTUS bazoo into non-presidential business and comment on changing the ‘Skins name, I immediately got on Amazon and bought me a beauty of an original team logo ball cap!!
GO REDSKINS!!!
In honor of our federal government change the name to the Washington Pork Skins.
I cannot think of anything that keeps the “red man / woman” more in the mind of the white man / woman, the black man / woman, etc., than sports’ teams names. Well, ok, old Westerns (shows) may be a close 2nd with “Whitey”. But the recognition via sports teams is, in this century, surely better than most (not all) of the old shows. I doubt that 2% of the people who use the words “Washington Redskins” consider the name in any way derogatory to American Indians, tho’ I’m sure 50% probably are derogatory to the sports team. :-)
Now, maybe the above is not “how it should be”, but, to quote a certain radio personality, “it is what it is.”
Does the red man wish to disappear from public consciousness? Fine. Let’s rename the Washington Redskins to, say, the Washington Bureaucrats. It’d be appropriate!
The Washington Neolithic Hunter-Gatherers.
I find the name ‘Cowboys’ to be offensive, but it isn’t my place to tell Jerry Jones to change the name of his team.
I suggest they be called the
“Washington POST-CLOVIS BERING STRAIT LAND BRIDGE MIGRANTS”.
It may be a little long, but anthropologically accurate.
When any team owner is called before congress (or any other kangaroo court type thing) they should ask one question “Are any of your shareholders?”
If none of them answer “yes” then he should get up, say “Mind your own business” and walk out.
Congress has NO business meddling in the private affairs of anyone, that includes steroid use in baseball, team names, health care etc.
Personally I find the name Washington Redskins to be extremely insensitive and offensive. So much so that I get a sick feeling whenever I hear it. They should change the name to “Redskins”.
I’m offended by the name of the place our Presidents live.......