Native American teams

[Brown10985]

Hello,

Many teams such as the Redskins, Blackhawks, and Braves have team names that Native Americans find offensive. Should we be supporting these teams if they’re advocating what some see as offensive?

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

Brown10985:

Hello,

Many teams such as the Redskins, Blackhawks, and Braves have team names that Native Americans find offensive. Should we be supporting these teams if they’re advocating what some see as offensive?

First I think you need to provide proof that Native Americans find them offensive.

Many people assume what you say is true yet in the case of the the FSU Seminoles and the NCAA you couldn’t be father from the truth.

For those who do not know, the NCAA has ruled that Florida State University must change its mascot or face serious sanctions.

The number one supporter of FSU in its use of the Seminole name is the Seminole Tribe.

Now because of the out cry from the Native Americans over the NCAA doing this and a threatened lawsuit, the NCAA has overturned this initial ruling under appeal by FSU.

This is the summit of the PC lunacy.

 

[DaveBj]

May FSU should take its cue from the University of California at Santa Cruz–the Fighting Banana Slugs.

(I know, I didn’t believe it either, when my younger son (a sports know-it-all) told me about this team.)

Hmm. The Florida State Fighting Wood Roaches?

Nah. Go Seminoles.

DaveBj

 

[Brendan]

ByzCath:

The number one supporter of FSU in its use of the Seminole name is the Seminole Tribe.

The same happened with the Eastern Michigan Hurons. They changed the name to “Eagles”, despite the Huron Tribe’s official protests

I guess EMU knew what was offensive to Hurons better than the actual Hurons Indians.

I guess I am now supposed to feel offended by Notre Dames depiction of Irishmen.

Maybe my neighbor, Mr. Eriksson (a Swede), can drop me off in South Bend on his way to protest the Minnesota Vikings.

If we hurry, we can beat the traffic; all those Greeks coming in town to protest the Michigan State Spartans.

 

[CheesusPowerKid]

personally, I find it hard to find ANYTHING today that isn’t offensive to someone. I think people should learn to get over it, and learn that not everything someone says you’re going to like. We protect people so much from what “offends” them it’s ridiculous…I would rather worry about the fact that I still can’t pray in school, not THAT offends me.

 

[Liberian]

Brown10985:

Hello,

Many teams such as the Redskins, Blackhawks, and Braves have team names that Native Americans find offensive. Should we be supporting these teams if they’re advocating what some see as offensive?

Brown10985,

If you want to support these teams, don’t let some people’s over-sensitivity get in your way. I note that the NCAA is going after the Fighting Sioux of the University of North Dakota, whose mascot picture is a portrait of a Sioux chief painted by a Sioux artist, but is not doing anything about the Fighting Irish of the University of Notre Dame, whose mascot picture is a caricature of an Irishman with his fists up. I consider this to be the height of hypocrisy.

• Liberian

 

[Topher]

Brown10985:

Hello,

Many teams such as the Redskins, Blackhawks, and Braves have team names that Native Americans find offensive. Should we be supporting these teams if they’re advocating what some see as offensive?

God never said that we have a right to not be offended. Especially, if we are being overly sensitive.

 

[Brendan]

I noticed the NCAA is banning “hostile or insensitive” depictions of Native Americans.

Did they bother to give examples of what would be a non-hostile or sensitive depiction of Native Americans

Perhaps a depiction of Native Americans that is just as thoughtful of Irishmen as Notre Dame, or maybe as sensitive of industrial workers as Purdue.

 

[geezerbob]

While that’s bad enough, PETA has now written to the NCAA protesting the University of South Carolina’s team name - gamecocks. Do they really think we’re having cock fights at the stadium rather than playing football?