Here's What's PROBLEMATIC With All 32 NFL Team Names
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NFL: Say Their New Names
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Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I live in Cincinnati. I haven’t watched a single play since the NFL refused to do anything about players who protested the National Anthem on the field and became woke. Just a few years ago the current owner of the “Commanders” say he would never change the name. My guess is the woke NFL made him change it. I won’t watch the “big game” either.
The Left, with its X-ray goggles capable of seeing racism everywhere, won’t rest until every trace Native American reference, every trace of Black American reference (Aunt Jemima / Uncle Ben) is removed from polite society.
Only European references are non-racist, every other Culture’s reference must be eliminated because of some hidden racism.
Democrats don’t want to end racism, they want to put it under new management.
I like it when they do this sort of thing. Makes it easier for people to see that the organization is just a skinsuit, having no relation to its former self.
The way that sports keeps fans in for the long haul is by appealing to their traditions, shared memories, etc. But there are no such things for the Commanders. Fans have traditions and memories of the Redskins. And they can’t really say “it’s just a change of name!” when the whole reason they changed the name was due to the supposedly racist traditions it represented.
The truth is that every professional sports team is like this now. It’s just easier to see when they change their names.
So is the term Redskin a derogatory term like the N-word?
Because I would have thought naming a football team after Native Americans is an honour…and pretty cool. Even I recognise and remember the old team logo all the way across the ocean.
I grew up eating these lollies called Redskins.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/12887278
I loved them and the buzz you got as a child from the red food-colouring goodness that nearly tore off your back teeth chewing them. They’re NZ lollies (originally). They got a name change. And we have no Native Americans in NZ or Australia. They’re now called Red Ripperz so we don’t offend the Native Americans in Australia. Crikey.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ripperz
However, this didn’t go down well in Australia- They changed our beloved cheese slices (first made in Country Victoria) from Coon– which was named after Edward Coon- the man who revolutionised cheese manufacturing process- because coon was a derogatory term for Aborigines during the World Wars. Even though I’ve never in my life ever heard a single person utter it and my children don’t even know the meaning of the name let alone it’s existence. It seems that Kraft (a US company), who now own the cheese brand, decided the cheese should be called Cheer. 😒 🥱 Because the American owners didn’t want to offend the Indigenous Australians.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheer_cheese
Have they banned the childhood game Cowboys and Indians? Do you get a door-knock if the neighbour rats you out to the authorities because your kid is playing it.
Oh. My. Goodness. Where does it end. Is the White House going to change its name? The game Black Jack? Yellowstone? Brown University? White Sox?….
A couple years ago I spoke to a recently retired history professor in Kentucky at a historic site near the Frankfort, KY. He said he was a descendent of Daniel Boone’s brother. He said that the white Americans who settled in Kentucky so hated the Indian tribes that they renamed everything, keeping NO Indian names. I did some research on it and except for the Ohio River, I was unable to find any Indian names in the interior of the state. So when I see “them” eliminating all references to Indians, black people on packaging such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, etc., all I can think of is their efforts to remove them from society.
Anyhow, I love the new Washington team’s name: The Commies.
I was going to watch the national felons’ league so-called Super Bowl to see if Joe Burrow [LSU] can pull it off. I won’t.