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I'm
a fan of the Washington Redskins.
Save
for the acquisition of the least talented Quarterback prospect in
the NFL draft in several decades to garner a first round pick (and
a three year draft mortgage of picks to go with it), I fully
support this team in most aspects and have done so since 1970.
In
today's world, we have people who think they have a constitutional
right not to be offended. I swear, we have grown
adults with so little integrity that they think that they can
dictate what is acceptable to say or to print based upon how they
are offended; and make no mistake, these same schmucks think that
their level of being offended is the only level that matters, and
to hell with the rest of us who might be offended by what they do.
Origins
of the Washington Redskins' Name
I
understand that those who whine the loudest in today's world
aren't the ones who are the most informed, so it is surprising
that those who claim the "Redskins" is a racist term are
actually showing their own racism by not only knowing this, but
repeating it over and over. In short, if something is
racist, why do you continue to bring that to the forefront of the
news where the damage of invoking the name is perpetuated?
Before
the Washington Redskins there was the Boston Braves - and in the
early years of professional football teams got their names from
the local pro baseball team - the Chicago Bears were the Cubs and
the Boston Braves were named after the baseball team there.
Teams
tend to relocate and the Boston Braves baseball team moved to
Atlanta and the Boston Braves (Redskins) football team moved
to Washington after having changed their names when they no longer
played in the Boston Braves' stadium.
From
the Boston Globe published on July 6th, 1933:
FOOTBALL BRAVES BECOME REDSKINS
"It will be the Boston Redskins, and not the Boston Braves when the National Football League season gets under way next Fall. When Pres George Marshall entered an eleven from Boston in the professional football league last year the team was naturally christened the Boston Braves, but yesterday, just before starting for Chicago to attend the League’s annual meeting, he announced the change in name.
This new name is rather appropriate in more than one sense. The head and since the close of the 1932 season Pres Marshall and Coach Dietz have signed up a number of Indian players.1 Not only that, but the Boston National League ball park has long been called the Wigwam."
It is
interesting that what now passes itself as the enlightened ones,
the leftist, neo-communist, progressive North was where all this
controversy started!
The
origins of the name "Redskins" is certainly not
predicated on inferring or offering any racial slur - it is thus
in the minds of the outsider that has natural racist tendencies to
associate "Redskins" with anything racial - it is those
who whine the most that are the racists in this discussion - they
infer and then they pass off their own racial bias onto other
innocent people and symbols. It should be noted that
the Redskins' logo is nothing more than a colorized version of
what was once an official coin of the United States.
There
are discussions in various sources that the Redskins name was also
supported by indian players on the team and used to recognize
them. Oddly enough none of them felt the name was racist.
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Is
This Really About The Owner's Politics?
Knowing
how today's leftist, progressive, neo-communist Democrat is a
petty and vindictive and mightily uninformed blivethead, it does
not take much of an imagination to think that given how the IRS
was used against the enemies of Progressives and Leftists, that
the Patent Office would be used to punish someone who supported
Mitt Romney in the last election - and that Daniel Snyder tends to
back Republicans over their dogs, the Democrats.
We
know that today's leftist is a spiteful lil bitch - they claim to
want negotiations, but that only means that those who oppose them
give up their ideals and to accept the leftists' ideals; when
confronted and challenged, the left will whine like a stuck
pig and launch vendettas that are nasty and vicious and never
based on facts. So it goes that Snyder is both
unpopular as an owner and having been on the wrong side of the
political tracks from the Messiah Obama.
It
used to be that true Democrats - those who practiced their craft
up to the JFK era were learned and responsible, but slowly over
the next five decades Democrats were replaced with Socials,
Neo-Communists, and Progressives who are not Democrat at all -
they have narrow viewpoints and don't care about the people they
advocate for - they just use those people as political pawns while
enriching themselves in the process - so Daniel Snyder is a public
enemy - and an easy one since he is brash and arrogant himself -
and he happens to have a team name that can be fashioned into a
racial slur - and the more that the racial slur angle is repeated,
the more true it becomes supplanting the reality of the history.
Yet,
we have to ask ourselves, when was the last time that any Indian
has been called "Redskin" to his or her
face? We know that the Black Americans (they are
no more African than I am) call themselves the N word but find
indignation when someone else does it - thus offering a racist
perspective in a situation where they want to resolve
racism. So, if Redskin is truly racist,
let's get those who have been called that name and put into Fed Ex
Field that can hold 80,000 and see how significant the filled
seats looks like!
To me,
however, as a fan, I have grown up with the beautiful logo (and
the spear) and the nauseating "hail to the redskins"
which makes every Dallas Cowpie fan cringe - all of that
disappears with a new name - and don't tell me you would buy a
Honda if it were renamed something else or if your beloved Apple
were renamed - something is lost in the process - a love and
respect.
I
could understand indians being upset with the Redskins when they
sucked, but you can't tell me that these same racist asswipes were
offended when Redskins were winning the Big Game (can't use the
real name lest the NFL sue me!).
Meanwhile
over in Cleveland, a hot bed of leftist union asslicking, the
Indians have a logo that is so stereotypical that it is tantamount
of black face on a white person. And since that team
is based in a leftist enclave it will never be touched.
So
when you hear the uproar over the Redskins understand this haters,
"Go Fock Yourselves!" - Redskins fans love their team,
name, logo, and players. We have no intention of
changing our love over your own prejudices that you
exhibit. At no time do we sing "hail to the
redskins" to insult anyone other than the opposing
team. And wearing a Redskins' logo is about respecting
the traditions and legacy of the team, not about insulting people
who walked across a land bridge and proceeded to make many mammals
extinct while hiding behind multicultural circle jerkoffs.
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The following is a statement from the National Congress of American Indians:
ReplyDeleteThe term "Redskins" is not and has never been one of honor or respect, but instead, it has always been and continues to be a pejorative, derogatory, denigrating, offensive, scandalous, contemptuous, disreputable, disparaging and RACIST designation for Native Americans.
And there are indian groups who have no problem with it.
DeleteBack to square one for you.
And you have yet to find anyone in 2014 who is an indian who has been called a redskin. I'd contend that people no longer associate "redskin" as a slur as it is most likely that no one associates "gay" with "happy" and now has been turned into the word describing "homosexuals".
We have seen with the bastardization of "marriage" that words change over time.
So much for Redskin being anything other than a football team or a potato.
dah There are no objections to the logo.
ReplyDeleteActually, you are wrong - the bastards who are whining even object to the logo. They have their shorts all bunched up over nothing.
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