Native American group releases thought-provoking team hats image

[Bonecrusher#31]

Native American group releases thought-provoking team hats image
by Zack Espinoza on October 10th, 2013 at 6:42 AM


Here’s something that’ll make many re-think just how racist some sport teams’ logos and names are. In this prove a point graphic, the group chose the Cleveland Indians as an example, which is arguably far worse than the Washington Redskins logo on the racism scale.

Via politcalblinsdpot.com: “The National Congress of American Indians has recently come out with a hard-hitting poster framing the context of how degrading, insulting and racist using Native American images such as that of the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins really is.”

- See more at: http://lowbrowsports.com/2013/10/na...ovoking-team-hats-image/#sthash.oSYa0MWa.dpuf

 

[Jon88]

The Indians logo is derogatory.

The name Redskins isn't.

 

[Sheik]

They should just stop being pussies.

 

[UVAwahoos]

If Sheik's not offended by the SF hat, then this really should be a non-issue

 

[peplaw06]

 

[bbgun]

For Bob

 

[Bluenoser]

Where do I get a Chinamens hat?

 

[Jon88]

For Bob

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That looks much more like an Arab than a Jew.

 

[bbgun]

but he's clearly "covetous"

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I'm liking these...Native...Americans already.

 

[JBond]

Most American Indians say that calling Washington’s professional football team the “Redskins”
does not bother them, the University of Pennsylvania’s National Annenberg Election Survey
shows.

Ninety percent of Indians took that position, while 9 percent said they found the name
“offensive.” One percent had no answer. The margin of sampling error for those findings was
plus or minus two percentage points.

Because they make up a very small proportion of the total population, the responses of 768
people who said they were Indians or Native Americans were collected over a very long period of
polling, from October 7, 2003 through September 20, 2004. They included Indians from every
state except Alaska and Hawaii, where the Annenberg survey does not interview. The question
that was put to them was “The professional football team in Washington calls itself the
Washington Redskins. As a Native American, do you find that name offensive or doesn’t it
bother you?”

http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycen...munication/naes/2004_03_redskins_09-24_pr.pdf

 

[Jon88]

And there you have it.

 

[Hoofbite]

768 responses.......yeah, that's probably "most".

 

[peplaw06]

All the Indians were drunk when they polled them anyway.

 

[BangersandMash]

Change the name already I'm so tired of my intelligence being insulted by this being shoved down my throat as some major social issue. There is nothing thought provoking about an identity battle over the mascot of a football team. Have the people in this country become this empty? Of freakin course it's derogatory just change it and shut the hell up about it.

 

[Jon88]

So this is a bigger issue than the poverty, drug, alcohol, and illiteracy problems facing Native Americans?

What a joke

 

[jnday]

So this is a bigger issue than the poverty, drug, alcohol, and illiteracy problems facing Native Americans?

What a joke

No it is not , but the liberals think it is. There is a bunch of white people pushing the issue that think if the Indians are not offended, that they will be offended for them.

 

[peplaw06]

Why does it have to be a bigger issue than other issues to warrant changing it?

 

[Jon88]

Making it a bigger issue is ridiculous.

And another thing, they want to be segregated from society but then tell society how it needs to operate. They need to get offended more about the things I mentioned than the name of a football team that helps generate tax revenue allowing them to have tax free casinos and kinds of other free things they get.

 

[Hoofbite]

Why does it have to be a bigger issue than other issues to warrant changing it?

Well you know, changing generations of socioeconomic stuff is just as easy as changing the name of a football team.

That's why.