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Kirata -> RE: More Racism.... (3/7/2015 6:21:24 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
The origin of the name "Buffalo," remains a matter of debate. This in no way changes the fact that all the blather about Native American names being racist (are the French names scattered throughout Wester New York racist?) in no way changes the fact that the name of the Washington D.C. football team is racist as is its use by any other team (including the one in Lancaster). It is an obvious false equivalency. It is nothing more that a pathetic attempt to by some to justify their own racism by projecting it onto others.
It's the State of Washington, not Washington, D.C. And at a time when the team's helmets had only the letter "R" on them, it was Walter "Blackie" Wetzel, a Chief of the Blackfeet Nation and former president of the National Congress of American Indians, who first proposed the idea of having "a real Indian" for a logo and who provided the artwork that resulted in the current design.
Add to that, Ben Shelly, president of the Navajo Nation, has shared team-owner Dan Snyder's box at games wearing a team hat. And Chippewa Cree tribal chairman Rick Morsette has stated publicly, "I have no problem with the name." So rather obviously, not all Native Americans agree with you in finding the word offensive. And according to Public Policy Polling, 71% of Americans don't think it should be changed. But here's something offensive...The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians... Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; it’s better that they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are... wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth. In case you don't recognize that passage, it was penned by L. Frank Baum, who campaigned for genocide against the American Indian. Nasty stuff, you may say, but the Oneida Nation, the group that stirred up this whole kerfuffle, is paying homage to Baum's work by naming their casino, "The Yellow Brick Road".
Ernestine Chasing Hawk, descendant of a Wounded Knee survivor, is not pleased. “How can they be so ignorant of history and traitors to their own race?” she asks in the Native American Times. “Would the Jews build a casino to honor Hitler?” But Oneida honcho Ray Halbritter defends the choice, noting that Baum's story has immense commercial appeal. What a hoot! Money and publicity, the favorite whores of the perpetually offended.
For your further education: The Adoption of a Native American Expression
K.
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