High school students walk out over 'Redskins' name change

CNN ^ | Wed December 10, 2014 | Katia Hetter and Eliott C. McLaughlin

[SkyDancer]

Maybe “The Weasels”?

[RginTN]

Only Leftists would think honoring a favorite sports team with a Native American name is racist.

Fans wear the team’s shirts, put the teams flags on their cars. Fans cheer the team name and Leftists think they would do all that for a slur???

[bunkerhill7]

Stanford Indians had a hatchet.
Now they pretend that they are a bird can wield a hatchet.

stupid morons

[aquila48]

How about then the "Blue Footed Boobies"

[TChad]

Navajo Nation Reservation In Az. Calls Its High School Football Team 'The Redskins'

Ha! What a great article.

Red Mesa (AZ) High School, which sits on the nation’s largest Native American reservation, is proud of its football team, named "The Redskins." The name was adopted by the school when one of its earliest students, Raymond Oldman, proposed it because he was a fan of the Washington Redskins.

To leftists, these aren't REAL Indians.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

THen suspend them for the rest of the law. They're breaking school rules and they're breaking the law.

I'm tired of this crap. They keep getting a pass because they're lefties. Enough of that!! Arrest them!

I'd be arrested if it was me. So much for Equal Justice Under Law!

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

How about then the "Blue Footed Boobies"

And such attractive blue feet! :)

ala David Atenbourough

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Sorry. Rest if the year.

[cynwoody]

“White Devils” has a nice ring to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNSjt8lvWJA

[Telepathic Intruder]

That’s sure to offend a seabird or two. Even if it’s just one disgruntled malcontent of questionable sanity, everyone else should adjust their behavior to compensate.

[aquila48]

I didn’t know boobies had feet... or that they were blue.

[pepsionice]

I would agree. Keep selling Redskins shirts...wear them to school and to games. Chant Redskins in the hallway as you walk from class to class. Put Redskins decals on your notebooks. Any game to take you down psychology in a class by teaching the terrible woes of saying Redskins....just start repeating the word in front of the teacher.

[Axenolith]

What is that? A Cave Fag???

[Pelham]

“Rednecks”

[Portcall24]

Their marching band would be great. From Wiki: It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, which is a sexually selected trait. Males display their feet in an elaborate mating ritual by lifting their feet up and down while strutting before the female.

[NTHockey]

While they are at it, change Indiana, Indianapolis and Indianapolis Colts; North and South Dakota; Delaware; Seminole County, Florida and a whole host of other offensive names. Wait until PETA gets started.

Hereabouts, there are two schools that have awful nicknames and mascots: Auks and Pandas. BTW, what do they need a mascot if the students continue there protest.

[T. Rustin Noone]

So True....

My own little K-12 school on Cape Cod proudly wore the name “Blue Devils” with a little blue demon with pitchfork as the mascot. Apparently the wiccans thought that this was demeaning, so the mascot of 100 years was changed to the “Sharks”. Not was bad as the change of the Dartmouth College Indians to the Big Green, but the wiccans are happy now. And apparently no one cares what the sharks think.

[Dixie Yooper]

Change the name to the Gippers and see if anyone objects...

[dforest]

I think they should change the team to “The No Names”

Their mascot could be “Nothing”.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

The story is the kids are UPSET about the name change. They ARE IN FAVOR OF BEING CALLED THE REDSKINS.