NO MORE REDSKINS

[gvidas]

Originally Posted by sexobon

When you advocate not using the name Redskins, you're advocating dropping the rich heritage of a Native American of a previous generation, one once called the Patron Saint of America, to satiate the whining of the current generation sponging off that heritage with attention whoring political correctness abuses in a futile grasp at control: Native American Heritage Cannibalism.

I don't think anyone outside of a cultural group has any standing to decide who is and is not a legitimate representative of that group, especially when they're organized to the point of having official spokespersons.

If there were an actual disagreement amongst Native Americans as to who should speak for them; and some were saying "nah, keep the name, we like it" and others were saying "find a new name, that's offensive"; I would accept the argument that we should wait and see. But there is no such debate.

The way I see it, Native Americans are fairly cohesively saying, repeatedly and forcefully, that they consider "redskin" a derogatory term, and that naming a football team that does not honor their heritage.

Insisting that it does is tantamount to saying: "I know better than you how to commemorate your history."