Lots of Native American groups throw shit-fits over high school, college and professional sports teams using Indians as mascots: “Ugh, Big Chief Hiawatha no likem using Redskins for name of football team. Me no likem use Tomahawk-chop for Atlanta Braves. Me walkem many moons to complain. Drinkem much fire-water. Ugh.”
Well, why do these Indians only complain about athletic teams and sport mascots? I’ve NEVER heard an Indian activist complain about the Jeep Cherokee. Or better yet, I’ve never heard an Indian utter a peep about an American LANDMASS being named after an Indian tribe. Think about it: A hostile government takes over the Indians’ land, denies the Indians basic human rights, ships ‘em off to disease-riddled reservations in the middle of nowhere – and then names the land the white man’s government now controls after the same Indians they’ve just displaced! Sioux City, Tallahassee, Manhattan… even the state INDIANA to me seems MUCH more offensive than using an Indian name in conjunction with a sports team. So why are Native Americans so preoccupied with changing the name of the Cleveland Indians, yet apparently don’t give a fuck about changing the name of the Indianapolis 500?
Why are sports bad… but gas-guzzling cars, redneck car races and white-dominated landmasses OK?
-JKD
2 comments:
you haven't heard Indians complain about jeep cherokees because you haven't listened.
you haven't heard Indians complain about names of states because states don't have racist mascots that are degrading and humiliating.
your lame attempt at argument, when read charitably, suggests that until Indians complain about everything that has been done wrong to them, they have no right to complain about anything.
you've made yourself look stupid. worse, racist with your tonto mockery. i'm glad i don't know you personally.
C'mon. Let's smoke a peace pipe and be friends.
Here's a thought: Indians figured out you can smoke both marijuana and tobacco. Talk about a group of people with too much free time – while the Europeans were exploring the Earth and discovering new civilizations, the Red Man was firing-up various plant life in the hopes of getting high.
I wonder how many plants they smoked before discovering marijuana and tobacco? I'll bet a lot.
And it doesn't take a great deal of imagination to figure out why the Indians never discovered gunpowder, does it? "Ugh, smoke 'em peace pipe - **BANG** Ugh, squaw, fetch 'em antiseptic."
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