What is racist about the Redskins name

[volsrock]

Dims????

[jacksonsprat22]

Dims????

whatever you say whitey

[archives]

Let me ask you a simple question there "vols," which I know you will not answer, would you go up on the street and address an individual you recognize as beginning a native American with "hey, redskin," "hello there redskin," "what's up redskin?"

Answers your question

[Stone]

Let me ask you a simple question there "vols," which I know you will not answer, would you go up on the street and address an individual you recognize as beginning a native American with "hey, redskin," "hello there redskin," "what's up redskin?"

Answers your question

Why do people call them NATIVE Americans when science says they crossed the polar regions from Asia to get here. Wouldnt that make them NOT native by definition? Inquiring minds want to know.....

[christiefan915]

Their skin isn't red for one thing, whiteskin.

[Bourbon]

I’ve always said, if you truly want to know, ask them in person.

All Education is Educational soak it up sunshine

[volsrock]

Let me ask you a simple question there "vols," which I know you will not answer, would you go up on the street and address an individual you recognize as beginning a native American with "hey, redskin," "hello there redskin," "what's up redskin?"

Answers your question

Red Mesa High School in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona where the student body is 99% Native American....Mascot is REDSKIN!

[Bourbon]

Their skin isn't red for one thing, whiteskin.

Maybe he’d prefer if he was called PINK SKIN

[christiefan915]

Maybe he’d prefer if he was called PINK SKIN

That's it!

[volsrock]

Indians used the term

1769: The first unchallenged use of the word “redskin” occurs when a British lieutenant colonel translates a letter from an Indian chief promising safe passage if the officer visited his tribe in the Upper Mississippi Valley.

“I shall be pleased to have you come to speak to me yourself if you pity our women and our children; and, if any redskins do you harm, I shall be able to look out for you even at the peril of my life,” Chief Mosquito said in his letter, according to a 2005 study by Ives Goddard, the Smithsonian Institution’s senior linguist emeritus.


they called themself REDSKIN

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Red Mesa High School in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona where the student body is 99% Native American....Mascot is REDSKIN!

As I noted, "a simple question you will not answer," says it all

[volsrock]

According to Smithsonian historian Ives Goddard, early historical records indicate that "Redskin" was used as a self-identifier by Native Americans

[volsrock]

As I noted, "a simple question you will not answer," says it all

Yes I would, they refered to themself as REDSKIN

National Annenberg Election Survey asked 768 people who identified themselves as Indian whether they found the name "Washington Redskins" offensive. Almost 90 percent said it did not bother them.

https://www.nbcsports.com/washington...-redskins-name

[Bourbon]

Did someone ask for your opinion?

No one cars what you think ...

[archives]

Yes I would, they refered to themself as REDSKIN

Yeah, that's believable, you see no threat with walking up to a stranger on the street you recognize as a native Americans and address him with, "hey redskin," beautiful