Reply #37: come on now [View All]

[Wetzelbill]

really that is ridiculous. If this team was called the Washington Niggers or the Washington Chinks, and I apologize for the language but it's apt, and had a picture of a black person eating a watermelon or an Asian person with chopsticks, would you defend it so much? Would you be telling a Black or Asian person who says that it's a racial slur that they don't speak on behalf of anybody else? Because that is exactly what you are doing. Indefensible and racist. You might want to go back and think about what you are doing, because it's really bad. I may not speak on behalf of everybody, but I speak for many people, including those people who go out and protest it and those who have that lawsuit against the Redskins and those who have just won one against the Fighting Sioux team in North Dakota. If it was such a good thing, than why would over two-thirds of the teams who have had Indian-oriented names in the last century have changed them? The reason is because they woke up and realized how bad it is, something you haven't. They were fighting a losing battle against progress and decided not to hold on to colonial ideas and white supremacist ideology. In the future, these names will be gone because they are wrong, and the people who are holding onto them like you, only impeded the progression of our society by doing so. It's not the 19th century anymore, we're moving on.