Posted on 05/06/2011 10:56:51 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
FROM THE “HERE WE GO AGAIN” DEPARTMENT
Taking a break from filing lawsuits against sports teams and their mascots, native Americans are circling the wagons over the use of “Geronimo” as the mission code name for Osama bin Laden.
Geronimo was an Apache leader who spent many years fighting the Mexican and U.S. armies until his surrender in 1886.
Steven Newcomb, a columnist for the weekly newspaper Indian Country Today, wrote:
“What the hell were they thinking? Why would the first African American President of the United States, as U.S. Commander in Chief, think nothing of U.S. military forces applying the code name “Geronimo” to Osama bin Laden during the reported assault against that long-sought enemy of the United States? Apparently, having an African American President in the White House is not enough to overturn the more than 200-year American tradition of treating and thinking of Indians as enemies of the United States.”
“It’s another attempt to label Native Americans as terrorists,” said Paula Antoine of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Terrorists Paula? Do you seriously know anyone who refers to Native Americans as terrorists? Time to back off the fire water for awhile.
Loretta Tuell, a member of the Nez Perce tribe, and staff director and chief counsel for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, agrees:
“These inappropriate uses of Native American icons and cultures are prevalent throughout our society, and the impacts to Native and non-Native children are devastating.”
Having played for several baseball teams with Native American names, this non-Native author can say with complete certainty that he was not “devastated” by the experience.
The Senate Indian Affairs panel had previously scheduled a hearing for this week on racial stereotypes of native people. Tuell said the use of Geronimo will be discussed.
In related news, various Senate subcommittees are said to be ramping up efforts to root out the “devastating impact” of other social injustices in America. Among them:
Chinese checkers: “Suggesting that all the Chinese do is sit around and play checkers all day is blatantly racist,” said one Senator who chose to remain obvious.
Brazil nuts: “To imply that Americans are intellectually superior to Brazilians is over the top,” said one exasperated Democrat, “particularly at a time when President Obama is working his ass off to make Brazil the number one oil producer in the Western Hemisphere.”
Eskimo pie: This one’s a no-brainer. “The inference that Eskimos eat pie is demeaning,” said another member of the committee, adding: “Eskimo pies are frozen. Do you seriously believe that anyone living in an igloo would eat frozen pie?”
Mountain Dew: “Nobody sticks up for hillbillies anymore,” said a legislator from West Virginia, “and after we remove this product from the shelves, we’re going to begin hearings on reparations for anyone and everyone who was scarred by The Beverly Hillbillies.”
Founding Fathers: Just exactly how did these people get here in the first place? “This terminology is patently sexist,” said the lone female on a panel charged with looking into the inflammatory usage of words like, “she,” “her,” and “mother lode.” She added: “This great country would not be what she is today without the founding mothers.”
The Senator also said that “mother of all inventions” is bigoted as well: “Not only do some inventions fail to live up to expectations; many of them are bad ideas from the start. This phrase should be changed to ‘mother of some inventions.’”
White lies: This is an obviously bigoted statement, inferring that all whites lie. After preliminary deliberation, the committee decided against proceeding with an investigation, saying: “If we were talking about ‘black lies,’ ‘brown lies,’ or ‘Muslim lies,’ this would be a horse of a different color.”
Crazy world we live in these days. Political correctness has reached the point in America where the race card is played with impunity to the extent that real racism is not only diminished, but the word itself doesn’t have the stigma it once did. That is a shame; not only for those who are falsely accused, but for those who are offended as well.
We must, of course, investigate and change the name of the vine-plant, the “Wandering Jew”. It is obviously anti-semitic to use that term since we only wandered in the desert for 40 years, not an eternity. We did find a home and settle down, didn’t we?
I suggest that we now call it the “Wandering Hebrews” vine. More PC.
When is this bullshit gonna stop?
We have the Washington Redskins as our football team here in the DC area and they want to change that name too. My God, they might call it the “Washington Pink Skins”, or the “Washington Darker Than Whitey Skins”.
Ah hell, why not call them the “Washington Foreskins” and really stir up things. We’re dealing with a bunch of PC pricks anyway.
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of World War Two fame
used the Motto and battle Cry “GERONIMO”
They were one of the Regiments that made up the famous
101st Airborne Division. ( The Screaming Eagles )
It’s a military thing. If you’re offended by the trops of today using the name “Geronimo” Tough Sh*t. Geronimo !!
I always thought he went by the nickname the Navajo’s gave him—Geronimo. The Apaches thought he was a bore—”He who yawns”.
They should have named him “Kenny” after that kid from South Park. Why? Because Kenny always gets killed. “OMG! We killed Kenny!”
I tried to tell them to nickname Osama bin Laden, ‘BarneyFrank’, but did they listen to me? NO!
What a Drama Squaw.
I liked Michael Medved’s story about how Prescott Bush stole the skull of Geronimo and spirited it away to Yale University where it is in the (secret) custody of the ‘Skull and Bones’ society. Medved then speculated that maybe the skull of Osama bin Laden (codename: “Geronimo”) may have the same destination.
lol
Doubt that you know how the military started using the term “Geronamo” when they when into battle of jumped from a plane.
The first dog to jump from a plane (with parachute) was named Geronamo. Everyone from that day forward yell “Geranamo” for that dog. If he could do it so could they.
” native Americans are circling the wagons over the use of “Geronimo” “ Isn’t that a mixed metaphor? Maybe not. I suppose the Native Americans did ride in an even bigger circle around the circled wagons.
I liked it when the Redskins threatened to move to Laurel, MD, if they couldn't get a new stadium paid for with tax dollars. I was hoping they would go an extra couple miles to Savage, MD. I would pay for season tickets just to watch liberal heads explode every time someone said "Savage Redskins".
Needs to go to ululationg 101
Dontcha think the time for assimilation is long past?
Chow down!
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