Redskins: no more

[DrLeftover]

18 June
For the second time in 15 years, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has cancelled the federal trademark of the Washington Redskins on grounds that the team name is disparaging to Native Americans. Through its Trademark Trial and Appeal Court, the USPTO first cancelled the trademark in 1999, but the decision was overturned by a federal court on appeal in 2003. The Redskins are likely to appeal this new cancellation as well and would retain federal trademark protection pending appeal. An appeal could take years to play out.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20140618/washington-redskins-trademark-cancelled-uspto/

 

[Flurry]

This is the most absurd and ridiculous argument I've seen in a long time. Another example of stupid people giving words more power than they are due.
I have Native blood from both my parents and I never gave this a second thought. It's not like they are intentionally being malicious! Some people have way too much time on their hands to get all twisted up and butthurt about stupid shit like this.
Worry about something that matters, for Christ's sake!! Like the God-awful mess our country is in, pollution, species going extinct, our Veterans who are getting the shit end of the stick; these things are important. What a sports team calls themselves is not.
Just ridiculous.

Agreed 100 percent. Heard they might not be the only team who will have to deal with this as well.

 

[DrLeftover]

It is all political.

For instance.

The NCAA made the University of Illinois ditch The Chief because it demeaned Native Americans, nevermind the fact that the Sioux Nation made the costume and approved the dance routine done before games.

HOWEVER

The NCAA hasn't said a word about a school in Florida who also uses an "Indian" as a mascot.

So:

-is BAD

but

-is good

Maybe its the horse.

 

[Jazzy]

From a different perspective:

A 'REDSKIN' IS THE SCALPED HEAD OF A NATIVE AMERICAN, SOLD, LIKE A PELT, FOR CASH

Native Americans pass down stories to preserve their history and heritage, because we don’t have much of it left. As tribes were systemically exterminated, so too were their respective cultures. But we have our stories, and when my mother was young, her parents shared one about the term “redskins.”

The story in my family goes that the term dates back to the institutionalized genocide of Native Americans, most notably when the Massachusetts colonial government placed a bounty on their heads. The grisly particulars of that genocide are listed in a 1755 document called the Phips Proclamation, which zeroed in on the Penobscot Indians, a tribe today based in Maine.

Spencer Phips, a British politician and then Lieutenant Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Province, issued the call, ordering on behalf of British King George II for, “His Majesty’s subjects to Embrace all opportunities of pursuing, captivating, killing and Destroying all and every of the aforesaid Indians.” They paid well – 50 pounds for adult male scalps; 25 for adult female scalps; and 20 for scalps of boys and girls under age 12.

These bloody scalps were known as “redskins.”

The mascot of the Washington Redskins, if the team desired accuracy, would be a gory, bloodied crown from the head of a butchered Native American.

Full article

Question: Do you feel differently now?