Poll: 9 in 10 Native Americans do not oppose 'Redskins' name

[fansince'76]

Jay Busbee,Shutdown Corner

Washington's NFL team name has been the source of controversy for decades, a controversy that's ramped up in recent years as groups on multiple fronts have protested the use of the name 'Redskins.' A new Washington Post poll has brought the question surging back to the fore with a definitive finding: 9 of 10 Native Americans do not have a problem with the name.

Read more: Poll: 9 in 10 Native Americans do not oppose 'Redskins' name (https://www.yahoo.com/sports/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/poll--9-in-10-native-americans-do-not-oppose--redskins--name-133502582.html)

[fansince'76]

Think this will get the hyper-PC SJWs (including the blithering idiot in the White House (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/9/obama-lawyers-go-court-fight-redskins-over-team-na/)) to finally STFU about it? Yeah, me neither...

[GBMelBlount]

Unfortunately 9 out of 10 liberals do.

[fansince'76]

Unfortunately 9 out of 10 liberals do.

Yep...

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[st33lersguy]

9 out of 10 non-native American liberals just feign offense just to try and limit freedom of speech and to try to be relevant

[Edman]

Yep...

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Or better yet...

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I feel awfully ashamed of myself for actually subscribing to this crap years ago. I used to be like them. I thought Obummer was good.

But then, I got older and actually grew up.

[Born2Steel]

What surprises me is the Buffalo Bills get away with paying no royalties, or naming fees to anyone. Guys named Bill everywhere are being screwed over by their name being sold on merchandise, and they don't see a single dime of that.

[GBMelBlount]

What surprises me is the Buffalo Bills get away with paying no royalties, or naming fees to anyone. Guys named Bill everywhere are being screwed over by their name being sold on merchandise, and they don't see a single dime of that.

and the Buffalos too!

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[Count Steeler]

What surprises me is the Buffalo Bills get away with paying no royalties, or naming fees to anyone. Guys named Bill everywhere are being screwed over by their name being sold on merchandise, and they don't see a single dime of that.

You kid, but we both know, that all across the United States, liberals are now offended.

[ALLD]

I don't mind the name "Redskins", but Washington DC is offensive to me.

[fansince'76]

I feel awfully ashamed of myself for actually subscribing to this crap years ago. I used to be like them. I thought Obummer was good.

The important thing is that you came around.

[Dwinsgames]

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[LloydWoodson]

I already researched this subject and found exactly one survey that said Native Anericans were offended by the Redskins logo. The man who conducted was a super left wing college professor from California who is a Stevan Segal clone as a wannabe Native.

The Natives I have worked with wear Redskins and Indians gear.

Plus William and Mary and South Dakota State University both removed Native aspects from their logo against Native opposition. It's just bleeding heart white people speaking over Native Americans all over again in new and exciting ways.

[Dwinsgames]

I have not followed baseball in a couple of decades and never ever watch espn , just wondering if the Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians are under the same scrutiny as the Redskins

[SteelMember]

I have not followed baseball in a couple of decades and never ever watch espn , just wondering if the Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians are under the same scrutiny as the Redskins

The Braves have stopped using the "offensive" imagery like the laughing brave logo and having Chief Nockahoma over the outfield wall since the mid 80's. There is still an occasional protest every now and again, but for the most part I don't think it garners as much attention as the word "Redskin". I think that word gets more attention because of the obvious negative connotation. While saying Brave or Indian my be perceived as a Native American slight, it is not necessarily on the same level. More comparable would be if there were a team named the New Jersey N****rs... and that's the difference here, imho. If the Native American people are really offended, then it should change. If they are not, so be it. Let it be their voice is all I would ask.

[fansince'76]

If the Native American people are really offended, then it should change. If they are not, so be it. Let it be their voice is all I would ask.

Agreed. That's the point of the article, though - by and large Native Americans AREN'T offended by the "Redskins" name and it's mostly become another cause celebre due to a bunch of liberal SJW busybodies.

[LloydWoodson]

76 is exactly right. And like I said SJW are the ones not listening to Natives- they are speaking over them like they are small children.

There are high school teams on reserves called the Redskins.

"Redskin" was an allusion to the paint that the Potowomac (spelling) tribes used to put on their skin. There is a chief of the Potowomac tribe himself who came out to say that he would be very disappointed in a name change and that many are fans of the team.

No professional or college sports team has ever been named after something negative so NO it is notlike if there was a team called the "New Jersey N*****" whatsoever.

In fact, the very first Head Coach of the Boston Redskins was a Native American named "Lone Star" Dietz. Of course, the SJW have had to attack Dietz as "not Native enough" and there was actually a hearing in the 1910s about his aboriginal status as it pertained to the WWI draft.

[fansince'76]

76 is exactly right. And like I said SJW are the ones not listening to Natives- they are speaking over them like they are small children.

There are high school teams on reserves called the Redskins.

"Redskin" was an allusion to the paint that the Potowomac (spelling) tribes used to put on their skin. There is a chief of the Potowomac tribe himself who came out to say that he would be very disappointed in a name change and that many are fans of the team.

No professional or college sports team has ever been named after something negative so NO it is notlike if there was a team called the "New Jersey N*****" whatsoever.

In fact, the very first Head Coach of the Boston Redskins was a Native American named "Lone Star" Dietz. Of course, the SJW have had to attack Dietz as "not Native enough" and there was actually a hearing in the 1910s about his aboriginal status as it pertained to the WWI draft.

Exactly. Spot-on post. And agreed, "Redskin" isn't even in the same universe as the "N-word" when it comes to ethnic slurs.

Typical Native American: "Redskins as an NFL team name really doesn't offend me."

Typical liberal SJW busybody: "Oh yes it does! It offends me as an upper-middle class caucasian (who just so happens to be riddled with white guilt), so surely it must offend you!"

Personally, I'm truly beyond tired of that ilk shoving their damn uber-PC groupthink down everyone else's throats.

[LloydWoodson]

Yep. The SJW are getting so damned carried away. Every single day there are more and more non issues being made into issues... like that "racist" Gap ad with the white girl resting her arm
on the black girl's head.

Everyone was morally outraged! Then they found out the 2 girls were sisters and that the exact same ad was run the year before with different kids and a black girl resting her arm on a white girl's head... which is fine.

I think part of it must be that social media is dominated by young, idealistic, impressionable morons who make a big deal out of everything. There is also a tremendous left wing bias in the educational system today.

[fansince'76]

I think part of it must be that social media is dominated by young, idealistic, impressionable morons who make a big deal out of everything. There is also a tremendous left wing bias in the educational system today.

:iagree:

...and who also habitually overuse terms such as "racist" and "sexist" without even really knowing what they mean.

Jerry Seinfeld pretty much nails it here (http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/08/jerry-seinfeld-politically-correct-college-campuses):


Seinfeld says teens and college-aged kids don’t understand what it means to throw around certain politically-correct terms. “They just want to use these words: ‘That’s racist;’ ‘That’s sexist;’ ‘That’s prejudice,’” he said. “They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.”