I Am Offended by Your Compliment!

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There are five (yep, count ‘em – only five) allegedly Native Americans who are so upset by the term “Redskins” that they have sought help from the government to help them suppress this oppressive abuse caused by the use of the word itself.  Perhaps they would prefer it if every right thinking person in America started calling the NFL team based in our nation’s capital the Washington “R-word”. 

One wonders if among those five highly offended persons is the junior senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth (a.k.a., “Princess Fauxcahontas”) Warren. Or perhaps some other liberal-Progressive who has convinced themselves that they need to take care of their Native American cousins since they are so obviously incapable of caring for themselves. But I digress.

But why are the Redskins the only professional sports team being singled out for this distinction?  After all, there are the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Blackhawks. They all have names that could be interpreted as denigrating Native American peoples, and in fact some have been sued in what we generally refer to as competent courts over that very issue.

What about collegiate sports teams? There are the Florida State Seminoles who have cleverly worked with the Seminole tribal council which has muted most criticism aimed at them. The famous Chief Osceola featured at Florida State games is usually a Seminole tribesman riding a horse provided by the Seminoles. However, there are still the Bradley University Braves, the University of Utah Utes and so on.The metaphorical jury seems to be still out on those terribly offensive team names.

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