Heidenreich Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Still a titred argument, and really to use a man's injury to get on a damn soapbox. That sickens me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattFancy Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 So how does he explain the 3 Super Bowls and 2 NFL Championships? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USS Redskins Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Great Email KDAWG... very well written and expressed. I wont click the article either... what a jackass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DraftChrisLong Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 RG3 had a injury at Baylor because the name "Bears" is so offensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DixieFlatline Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I didn't click on it because I didn't want them to get the page hits, but my immediate thought was 'Is this what passes for journalism now?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diggs Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Look at the smug, satisfied look on this dude's face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celticsalmon Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I have no problem with changing the name which is in fact racist- red skin! I mean, we lost "bullets" and the "senators" but not their history. If we change the name of the skins-we won't lose anything but a moniker. There could e a huge contest for renaming the team-just keep the colors! This is a new Century and new era of winning- why not change the name? Bottom line is money! The brand brings in a lot of dough. But sooner or later it will have to change-so why not have fun with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dahibachi Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 i read the title and did not bother to read one word from the article itself. What an idiotic notion it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FSUSkins24 Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I didn't click on it because I didn't want them to get the page hits, but my immediate thought was 'Is this what passes for journalism now?' The sad truth is that journalism and anything media related is whatever gets the most traffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forehead Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 For those not clicking the article, you'll be glad to know that there is an upcoming panel discussing this and other Native American names/images in sports. It will be at the smithsonian national museum of the American Indian. One of the panelists will be UnWise Mike, he who never shuts up about this either....he of the recently canceled radio program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWVASkinFan Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Unfortunately I wasted a few minutes of my life by clicking the link... I did however peruse the comments and it seems the only people who seem to argue that it is an offensive names AREN'T even Native Americans.... So tired of this....they need to just let it go... ---------- Post added January-9th-2013 at 09:36 AM ---------- I mean, we lost "bullets" and the "senators" ! Umm..pretty sure the Senators relocated....and the Nationals are a brand new team.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 What a pathetic article....this argument is so old and tired. Thank you Karma for three SB trophies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCav06 Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 If you want to debate whether the name is offensive, fine. Just don't come off as a smug a****** who takes delight in our QBs injury. If the skins had bad karma, we'd be the Detroit Lions, not the 3x Super Bowl Champions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightbird Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Courtland Milloy has the IQ of a ferret, and the Washington Post deserves the slow death from which it is currently suffering. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss_Hogg Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 This man has an agenda. From January 2011: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/04/AR2011010405217.html After a recent visit to the National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall, I'm wondering how much longer our city will tolerate having a football team known as "Redskins."It's a racist name, patently offensive - and the incongruence is simply ridiculous: a world-class institution devoted to showcasing Native American heritage in a city whose leading sports franchise makes a mockery of that heritage. A film now showing at the museum, called "Reel Injun," chronicles more than a hundred years of insidious depictions of Native Americans in movies. We have been woefully misinformed, and our kids are still being brainwashed. Walt Disney mythmakers would have them believe that Pocahontas was some Westernized siren in a sultry dress and not the 9-year-old girl that she really was when John Smith took an interest in her. Bugs Bunny and Popeye are still killing off the "sneaky savages." John Wayne can still be heard yelling: "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." In our minds, Geronimo was Chuck Conners spray painted red - which, as a Native American comedian noted in the film, made about as much sense as "Adam Sandler portraying Malcolm X." Enough already. Having slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Indians, we romanticize the tragedy by turning Native Americans into sports mascots - feasting vicariously on their vanquished souls. We think "Redskins" is a term of endearment while thinking little, if at all, of events such as Wounded Knee - the massacre of men, women and children by U.S. troops in South Dakota that epitomized the depth of animosity toward Indians. Little wonder that the 120th anniversary of the massacre, on Dec. 29, passed virtually unnoticed. Ask yourself: Why is it okay to use "redskins" but not, say, "blackskins" or "whiteskins"? Suppose some team chose as its mascot a spear-chucking Mandingo warrior who ran up and down the sidelines in a diaper? No way. When Mexico released a stamp portraying its version of a Little Black Sambo character, African Americans flexed their international muscle and the stamp was withdrawn. The Mexicans said they loved the character and were simply honoring him with a stamp. Apparently that line of reasoning only works when you're offending Native Americans. "I see the name of the team and all of the imagery as being a continuation of a process than began a long time ago to define us in a very limited way, as less than human, in order to rationalize the dispossession," said Kevin Gover, director of the Museum of the American Indian, a Pawnee who grew up in Oklahoma. "It is a slur, a word that was used to degrade us, hurt our feelings and make us angry." So far, dozens of Native American organizations have joined in no fewer than seven lawsuits protesting the team's name. Some of them, including a refiled lawsuit that was dismissed last year on a technicality, are expected to be tried in federal court this year. But why wait for the law to make us do the right thing? Gover hastens to point out that just because fans cheer for the home team doesn't make them racist. Given the centuries of brainwashing by the media, some people may just be ill-informed. "We don't believe anyone means us harm," Gover said. "On the other hand, once people know that the name is offensive, and they continue using it, you have to wonder about their intentions." We all know that the Washington football team needs a new identity - that something has sapped the team spirit and depleted the will to win. Look how awful they treat one another? It's as if the team is suffering from the same negation of humanity that is symbolized by the use of that faceless "redskin" image. "No franchise wants to face that it's built a losing culture or pampered its big stars or that it simply has no identity," wrote The Post's Thomas Boswell in January of last year. "Nobody wants to say, 'We failed.' " It's long past time to say it. Put that logo in a museum and create a new brand. Change the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metskins Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Let me just say, at some point, I see them changing the name. To be honest, I'll probably find a way to live with it. But one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard is this whole karmic justice thing with regards to the name, which is OBV offensive to some. Where was this bad juju thirty years ago? It's not some unholy spirit, that's cursing the team. It's the owner IMO and the culture he's produced since he took over the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbit Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I have no problem with changing the name which is in fact racist- red skin! I mean, we lost "bullets" and the "senators" but not their history. If we change the name of the skins-we won't lose anything but a moniker. There could e a huge contest for renaming the team-just keep the colors! This is a new Century and new era of winning- why not change the name? Bottom line is money! The brand brings in a lot of dough. But sooner or later it will have to change-so why not have fun with it! save the name. Put a potato on the helmet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiLfan Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 RG3 had a injury at Baylor because the name "Bears" is so offensive. Milloy has a point. "Redskins" is too offensive a name. "Bears" is too threatening a name. What we should do is change our name to something soft and cuddly. You know, something totally inoffensive and not threatening at all. How about "Cubs"? I mean, how could ANY bad karma be associated with a team that names itself after something small, furry and adorable as a baby cub? Right? Oh, geesh. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelvin Bryant Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 You'd think the Post's editors would be embarrassed to publish an article based on this sort of primitive superstition. Apparently not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoRUSupposed2Be Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 As a black man myself, I mean this with due respect: "Shut your cornball *** up Courtland!" Does he even realize that the term Redskins is not even subjecting towards anything of his heritage so I can see why he would even have an agenda towards. Has this RG3 thing really gotten the Post that bent over to have one ******** article after another come out even after how we end this season. What a sick world we live in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFKFedEx Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I can't stand Milloy. Last month the dude said DC's new bike lanes are racist. However, I agree with Milloy about the bad karma sourrounding the name. How much longer do we want to fight this fight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I guess the karma gods hate the name Vikings also because they caused their star runningback to blow out his knee last year, their star QB to hurt his elbow this year and have never let them win a SB. The marauding band of norwegien killers are now getting their just deserts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiLfan Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I agree with Milloy about the bad karma sourrounding the name. How much longer do we want to fight this fight? I guess that will fix everything right? I mean, it worked so well for the Washington Bullets/Wizards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFK Lives Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I guess the karma gods hate the name Vikings also because they caused their star runningback to blow out his knee last year, their star QB to hurt his elbow this year and have never let them win a SB. The marauding band of norwegien killers are now getting their just deserts.Don't mess with those guys in Valhalla, they hold a grudge, I mean 0-4 in Super Bowls? Geez, who angered the Bison gods to send Buffalo to the same record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleTinyUnbornBaby Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 What a complete moron, some people should just remain a stain on the sheets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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