Right after America’s War Between the States (1861-1865), more than a few Yanks and Canadiens (all claiming Irish bloodlines) were running guns to Ireland. Of course, there were ebbs and flows, but said gun running kept going until the founding of the Irish Free State, then quickly followed by the Irish Civil War (1921-1922).
The Major Lease Baseball team in Atlanta is still named in honor of Native American warriors. The National Hockey League’s franchise in Chicago is still named after the Sauk Tribe’s war chief, Black Hawk.
More than a few universities and colleges still name their various teams after various Indian tribes; San Diego State University’s Aztecs; the Chippewas of Central Michigan University; the Florida State University’s Seminoles, just to name a few.
In spite of woke white liberals trying to rescue everyone, Red Mesa High School located in Arizona’s Navajo Reservation still has retained the “Redskins” as the team name and mascot for the school.
Seriously, if the Navajo Nation has no problem with “Redskins,” then why should anyone else? Think about it, when the Braves organization or Central Michigan University chose their names, why would they choose as a mascot something or someone worthy of ridicule?
The University of Notre Dame didn’t choose the moniker of “The Drunken Irishmen” nor has Minnesota named their football team, “The Rapin’ Norsemen”. I tell ya, if I was athletically gifted enough to play for any given professional sporting franchise, you can bet I’d be proud to embrace being a “Fightin’ Zulu” or “Māori Warrior.”
Teec Nos Pos, Arizona’s Red Mesa High School.
That’s why I’m glad to see the Indianapolis AAA Minor League baseball team keep the title of “The Indianapolis Indians” (note, Indianapolis literally means “City of the Indians”).
Even though many sports teams across the country are changing their names that are related to indigenous people groups, like the Washington Redskins becoming the Washington Commanders or the Cleveland Indians becoming the Cleveland Guardians, the Indianapolis Indians announced this week that the club will not be changing its name.
On Wednesday, the club announced that it would be keeping its current Indianapolis Indians name for at least the upcoming 2023 and 2024 baseball seasons after entering into a partnership with the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana. Brian Buchanan, the Chief of the group, said in a statement that the Miami Nation of Indians “encouraged the team to remain the Indianapolis Indians.”
“We are pleased to work with the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana to help educate our fans about the rich history and culture of its tribe,” Bruce Schumacher, Indianapolis Indians Chairman and CEO said in the announcement. “We look forward to using our platform to educate our fans by acknowledging, uplifting and honoring those upon whose ancestral lands Victory Field is built.
Of course, not everyone’s happy…
We could add to the cool n funny minor league team names and be the Indianapolis Tenderloins but nooooo y’all stickin with this smh https://t.co/0teZEgXGnE
Disgusting beyond words. We need to work to protect children from the egregious discrimination and culture-shaming that mascots deliver. What a shame.
— Mich Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media (@nativerightsmi) February 23, 2023
Will you educate the fans on missing and murdered indigenous women, and the struggle tribes have with law enforcement not solving those crimes? Can you at least tell them this is a thing that happens today?
Beware of the likes of Orwell, Chaucer and Beowulf.
As totally bizarre as it may sound, George Orwell’s novel against totalitarianism, 1984, has been labeled by a British so-called “institute of higher learning” with a trigger warning for today’s hyper-offended students.
I’m not going out of my way to take a cheap shot at one of my Sister Services. But hey, Navy… if you let your ass hang out, don’t get pissed when someone takes a chunk out of it.
In spite of Don Lemon losing his prime-time gig at CNN, he somehow feels entitled enough to tell the rest of us lowly peons when women are actually in their prime.
In quite a blurt live on-the-air, Lemon went from bashing Nikki Haley to letting us know how he rates women.
Personally, I find his quote (seen on the video below) somewhat curious. Especially in light that the last time Don Lemon had contact with a real-live Homo-Sapien vagina was when his momma pushed his worthless ass out.
Lemon’s demotion to being on a panel show with two Gyno-Americans must have sent him off on a first-class tizzy.
Some may say he’s conducting himself like a stereotypical hissing drama queen bitch. But I won’t say that.
Chemical disaster in the heartland. Officials claim air and water is safe for the people of East Palestine, Ohio.
While the Establishment Media yawns, well over one million pounds of cancer-causing chemicals have been released into the environment within the confines of the small town of East Palestine, on the Ohio side of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line.
