i'm not giving that jew a dime. ***skins need to change that name asap.How much you throwing down?
Daniel Snyder announces foundation to help Native American tribes
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@Brooklynzson Why is the word "Redskin" not blocked on this site? It's a racially insensitive term. As a law abiding, tax paying citizen, who cares deeply about civil rights, I motion that we move the term into the list of banned words.
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Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter said in response to the announcement:
“We’re glad that after a decade of owning the Washington team, Mr. Snyder is finally interested in Native American heritage, and we are hopeful that when his team finally stands on the right side of history and changes its name, he will honor the commitments to Native Americans that he is making.” “We are also hopeful that in his new initiative to honor Native Americans’ struggle, Mr. Snyder makes sure people do not forget that he and his predecessor George Preston Marshall, a famous segregationist, have made our people’s lives so much more difficult by using a racial slur as the Washington team’s name.”
“We’re glad that after a decade of owning the Washington team, Mr. Snyder is finally interested in Native American heritage, and we are hopeful that when his team finally stands on the right side of history and changes its name, he will honor the commitments to Native Americans that he is making.” “We are also hopeful that in his new initiative to honor Native Americans’ struggle, Mr. Snyder makes sure people do not forget that he and his predecessor George Preston Marshall, a famous segregationist, have made our people’s lives so much more difficult by using a racial slur as the Washington team’s name.”
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@Brooklynzson Why is the word "Redskin" not blocked on this site? It's a racially insensitive term. As a law abiding, tax paying citizen, who cares deeply about civil rights, I motion that we move the term into the list of banned words.
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Will the coli be on the right side of history?
I was just about to say....even if for comedic purposes only, Redskins should be edited to R@dsk!nz or some shyt.
Make it happen @cook !
How about those Native American high schools with the Redskins team name? Should you tell them that they're offending themselves?
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nikka please.
Here's one of them.
http://www.rmusd.net/
Red Mesa High School
You're a damn fool if you think Native Americans are having such a difficult time because of the name of a team.
And if you notice the only major tribe that is complaining about this is the Oneida tribe.
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You can't see what I can seeLMAO @ the blind Redskin fans in here
Black folks call each other nikkas, women call each other bytches, gay folks call each other fags, but that don't mean it's cool to apply that logic to an organization. Don't act like there ain't double standards. If it was Washington nikkas then black folks would've been at that man's house trying to whoop his ass.
No black school would ever call themselves "The nikkas" and you know that so your point is wrong.
But, its a fact that the term Redskin is NOT a racial slur. Its used on reservations even today for high schools etc.
Damn shame what greed will do to people. Hail to those Redskins
You're actually wrong. On the news today, they decided to pull up the Oxford dictionary definition, since that dictionary is considered American standard.
Usage
Redskin is first recorded in the late 17th century and was applied to the Algonquian peoples generally, but specifically to the Delaware (who lived in what is now southern New York State and New York City, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania). Redskin referred not to the natural skin color of the Delaware, but to their use of vermilion face paint and body paint. In time, however, through a process that in linguistics is called pejoration, by which a neutral term acquires an unfavorable connotation or denotation, redskin lost its neutral, accurate descriptive sense and became a term of disparagement. Red man is first recorded in the early 17th century and was originally neutral in tone. Red Indian is first recorded in the early 19th century and was used by the British, far more than by Americans, to distinguish the Indians of the subcontinent from the Indians of the Americas. All three terms are dated or offensive. American Indian andNative American are now the standard umbrella terms. Of course, if it is possible or appropriate, one can also use specific tribal names (Cheyenne, Nez Percé, etc.).
What does that have to do with anything?