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Thread ID: 4662 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2003-01-29
2003-01-29 00:15 | User Profile
(CNSNews.com) - The newspaper serving Lincoln, Neb., will no longer call the Washington Redskins by their official name. "Out of respect for native people," the newspaper wrote on Tuesday, "we'll call that team 'Washington.'" Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star, told readers Tuesday, "We will no longer use "Redskins" or "Skins" because it is a racial slur. It derives from an old, genocidal practice in this country of scalping Indians to earn a bounty. A bounty hunter could prove he had killed an Indian by turning in a scalp." Rutledge said the newspaper also has stopped printing Native American logos used by sports teams. "Instead, we'll use alternative logos that stay away from Native symbols," she wrote. "Finally, we've decided to drop the stereotypical modifier 'Fighting' when used with team nicknames such as Fighting Sioux or Fighting Illini." Rutledge said she asked the newspaper's sports editor and news editor to research the issue. "The two made a recommendation, and I have accepted it," she wrote.
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2003-01-29 01:05 | User Profile
**"We will no longer use "Redskins" or "Skins" because it is a racial slur. It derives from an old, genocidal practice in this country of scalping Indians to earn a bounty. A bounty hunter could prove he had killed an Indian by turning in a scalp." **
Touching.
Will the last American who can still feel a twinge of compassion for the white settlers - women and children most definitely included - raped, mutilated & butchered without mercy or restraint by marauding savages (who have never once expressed the slightest iota of remorse for this slaughter) kindly turn out the light before you leave?
2003-01-29 01:09 | User Profile
Originally posted by wintermute@Jan 28 2003, 18:25 > "Out of respect for native people," the newspaper wrote on Tuesday, "we'll call that team 'Washington.'" Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star, told readers Tuesday, "We will no longer use "Redskins" or "Skins" because it is a racial slur. **
She's lying. This has nothing to do with respect for native people at all, the vast bulk of which support the practice of using American Indian symbolism in sport. Also, I think the etymology of 'redskin' that she gives is wrong. Does anyone have more information on this? My understanding of 'redskin' puts it in a category with 'the white man' - a generally neutral designation.
Wintermute**
This might help:
RED INDIAN ââ¬â ââ¬ÅAn offensive name for Native Americans, but a historical term applied by the British to North American Indians, apparently because of ââ¬Ëtheir copper-colored skinââ¬â¢ and to distinguish them semantically from the Indians of India. From ââ¬ËRed Indianââ¬â¢ came the derogatory word redskin.ââ¬Â From ââ¬ÅEncyclopedia of Word and Phrase Originsââ¬Â by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
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I'm sure this frizzy-haired, leather-faced leftist sought out the most anti-White definition she could find, and I'm really not too unhappy about that, because these White sports fans need to have their faces rubbed in it as often as possible. Might wake a few of them up.
2003-01-29 01:36 | User Profile
Originally posted by il ragno@Jan 28 2003, 19:05 > "We will no longer use "Redskins" or "Skins" because it is a racial slur. It derives from an old, genocidal practice in this country of scalping Indians to earn a bounty. A bounty hunter could prove he had killed an Indian by turning in a scalp." **
Touching.
Will the last American who can still feel a twinge of compassion for the white settlers - women and children most definitely included - raped, mutilated & butchered without mercy or restraint by marauding savages (who have never once expressed the slightest iota of remorse for this slaughter) kindly turn out the light before you leave?**
Rutledge needs to spend an afternoon with Hannah Duston:
Meanwhile, a fearful scene was being enacted in the home. Mrs. Neff, trying to escape with the baby, was easily captured. Invading the house, the savages forced Hannah to rise and dress herself. Sitting despairingly in the chimney, she watched them rifle the house of all they could carry away, and was then dragged outside while they fired the house, in her haste forgetting one shoe. A few of the Indians then dragged Hannah and Mrs. Neff, who carried the baby, towards the woods, while the rest of the band, rejoined by those who had been in the village, killing twenty-seven and capturing thirteen of the inhabitants.
Finding that carrying the baby was making it hard for Mrs. Neff to keep up, one of the Indians siezed from her, and before its mother's horrified eyes dashed out its brains against an apple tree. The Indians, forcing the two women to their utmost pace, at last reached the woods and joined the squaws and children who had been left behind the night before. Here they were soon after joined by the rest of the redskins with their plunder and other captives.
Shortly after midnight she woke Mrs. Neff and Samuel. Each, armed with a tomahawk, crept silently to a position near the heads of the the sleeping Indians - Samuel near Bampico and Hannah near her master. At a signal for Hannah the tomahawks fell, and so swiftly and surely did they perform their work of destruction that ten of the twelve Indians were killed outright, only town - a severly wounded squaw and a boy whom they had intended to take captive - escaping into the woods. According to a deposition of Hannah Bradley in 1739 (History of Haverhill, Chase pp.308-309), "above penny cook the Deponent was forced to travel farther than the rest of the captives, and the next night but one there came to use one Squaw who said that Hannah Dustan and the aforesaid Mary Neff assisted in killing the Indians of her wigwam except herself and a boy, herself escaping very narrowly, shewing to myself & others seven wounds as she said with a Hatched on her head which wounds were given her when the rest were killed."
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2003-01-29 01:50 | User Profile
The only other place I heard the notion that "redskin" came from bounty hunting was from Dick Gregory on some PBS program. I'm sure his etymology is as sound as the one that derives "picnic" from "pick-a-negro" (for lynching); in other words, it was made up in the '60s or '70's for political purposes.
2003-01-29 21:22 | User Profile
I'm waiting for the day Madame Rutledge decides it's not fit to use the Boston Celtics' logo in their newspaper as well. That logo features what, to me, looks like a bumbling leprechaun; such a grotesque, offensive, and emotional-shattering stereotype for Irish-Americans ;) .
2003-01-30 10:08 | User Profile
**Finally, we've decided to drop the stereotypical modifier 'Fighting' when used with team nicknames such as Fighting Sioux or Fighting Illini." **
What about Notre Dame, are they not known as the 'Fighting Irish'? Perhaps they will change it to the 'Fighting for the oppression of minorities and women Irish'.