http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reed-hundt-dan-snyder-should-change-the-redskins-name/2013/04/04/733c761c-9d5f-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html
In a related announcement, the USDA announced that there will be a ban on the growing of red skin potatoes
Or alternatively, the mascot of the Washington football team will become a baked potatoe
I hope they leave coonskin alone.
I remember back in the mid-1980’s a bunch of left leaning PC newspapers tried some crap like this. They refused to print the name of the Redskins team in their papers. Instead they would be referred to as ‘the Washington team’ or such some blather. If memory serves they did the same with the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, etc. (The Greensboro News & Record was one such fish wrapper that adopted this policy back then, I can’t remember what other papers were involved).
In a related situation, I was flipping by NFL games a couple of times this year and I noticed that the mid-field logo was blurred out (I saw this on both Fox and ESPN). I assume this is another deliberate PC effort by the mass media in this country.
Orwell must be spinning in his grave.
To clarify, it was the Redskins mid-field logo that I saw blurred out (I assume this is done to avoid ‘offending’ any viewers).
The college I attended was founded in a county in North Carolina named after the local Indian tribe. The college carried the name of the Indian tribe. The football team was called the Indians and known collectively as The Tribe. The club for the big donors was called the Chiefs club.
The NCAA came down on them like a ton of bricks. It didn’t matter that the elected leader of the tribe told the NCAA that they were not the slightest bit offended.. At that point in 2006, the NCAA finally backed down
All of this would bother me a lot less if the Indian tribes were the people pushing for the changes. Instead it is usually led by elitist left wing ivory tower types.
In fact, the Seminole tribe defended Florida State University against the NCAA’s PC police.
http://www.fsu.edu/news/2005/06/17/seminole.support/
Touché!!! Exactly on point!!!
This is all just a bunch of Neanderthal leaning PC newspapers trying to resurrect old issues that were decided several years ago.
They are a bunch of angry 0ld white, black, red, and yellow women-haters who are acting like jilted lovers because their climate-change hoax has fallen apart and been exposed for the sorry, ill-conceived hoax that it was shown to be!
Strange that they would come down like a ton of bricks just for a name. What if they had ripped of not just their name, but re-purposed something they had dedicated their entire lives or culture to creating? 😉
http://writingcreativenonfiction.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/stone-art-at-beaches.jpg
I would be Stone, Art
It’s taken. 😉
http://cdn.dickblick.com/items/341/16/34116-2000-3ww-l.jpg
How about Art’s tone? Hmmmmm
New word ok, if from heart… perhaps even applied to Redskins?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fcc-blesses-red-sox-players-443391