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political correctness wins again
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look out fighting irish, florida seminoles and other offending names. the university of north dakota retired their "fighting sioux" nickname today. the natives complained it was offensive to them. heres a quote from the article:
Ron His Horse Is Thunder, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a fervent opponent of the nickname and logo, cheered the board's decision.
"It's not an easy step," His Horse Is Thunder said. "And it is full of controversy. But I think every great step in this country was filled with controversy ... The civil rights movements in the '60s didn't happen with a whimper."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520248,00.html
wow, does everyone else feel the love? now for a list of mascots that i find offensive, indians, braves, vikings, mustangs, midgets, patriots(i here they are on the homeland securities list of terrorists), fighting irish, saints, demons, etc.
is it possible to please everyone nowdays. UND has been offering free education for a handful of native americans every year for many years now, i hope just for spite they put a stop to that program. the college gets a large amount of money from the englestad estate and i beleive when the arena was built bearing his name one of the stipulations was they could never change the name, be interesting to see if they have to rip all the fighting sioux lettering out of the arena too.
Ron His Horse Is Thunder, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a fervent opponent of the nickname and logo, cheered the board's decision.
"It's not an easy step," His Horse Is Thunder said. "And it is full of controversy. But I think every great step in this country was filled with controversy ... The civil rights movements in the '60s didn't happen with a whimper."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520248,00.html
wow, does everyone else feel the love? now for a list of mascots that i find offensive, indians, braves, vikings, mustangs, midgets, patriots(i here they are on the homeland securities list of terrorists), fighting irish, saints, demons, etc.
is it possible to please everyone nowdays. UND has been offering free education for a handful of native americans every year for many years now, i hope just for spite they put a stop to that program. the college gets a large amount of money from the englestad estate and i beleive when the arena was built bearing his name one of the stipulations was they could never change the name, be interesting to see if they have to rip all the fighting sioux lettering out of the arena too.
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Similarly, the Americans of Mexican ancestry down there call themselves Mexicans, not 'Hispanics' or 'Latinos'. Both Indians and Mexicans would call me either a White or an Anglo, and occasionally a Gringo, and I found all three acceptable. The only friction was between the Hopis and Navajos, an old tribal issue over the ownership of Third Mesa. That's because Liberals like 'His Horseturds is Thunder' are thrown over a cliff before they can start any friction, especially over something as stupid as language conventions.
I've been gone for five years. I expect things will change, especially with so many Liberal Californians moving in. It seems that, having ruined California - and they did, it certainly wasn't the Indians - they want to escape, so they can do it again to Arizona. Before I left, they already had gotten Crazy Woman Wash renamed to something else because they said it was sexist. That's another historic place name gone forever. The politically correct world, the gray, brain-dead world of Orwell's writing, is coming.
(Hope I didn't just get this thread on the poof list.)
BTW it is entirely possible that "His Horse is Thunder" is his actual, legal name, though not necessarily a hereditary family name. I was surprised at some of the Sioux names I've come across.
Several of the Sioux tribes have held votes in this issue, and the majority have supported the team name. I believe that the Standing Rock tribe mentioned is one of the tribes that has not allowed a vote, because the activist leaders were afraid that their members would also vote to approve the name.
UND has one of the largest Native American studies programs in the US - but the activist crowd ignores that entirely.
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It's everywhere! It's everywhere!
Jesus, they could name a team "Fighting White Boys who don't give a dam*n" and I wouldn't be offended in any way shape or form. [:D]
That would pretty much kill any basketball and football hopes wouldn't it? [:D]
I don't know, I talked to my Sioux freind "two dogs *-king" and he said the name "Fighting Sioux" didn't offend him either.[:D]
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Well, I see this thread is going POOF.
quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
I don't know, I talked to my Sioux freind "two dogs *-king" and he said the name "Fighting Sioux" didn't offend him either.[:D]
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Well, I see this thread is going POOF.
well i got a good laugh out of it while it lasted anyway.
What is crazy about this one is that no one locally complained about the "Indians". The NCAA just decided to make them change it on their own.
Courts said the natives waited too long to file a complaint.
NCAA is worse than government...
That's interesting. I just heard on HLN news that the Washington Redskins get to keep their name via court decision.
Courts said the natives waited too long to file a complaint.
we have lots of native americans, and lots of indian names on rivers mountains, islands even cities, streets and schools. No one seems worried about it. But then we don't have mascot names like REDSKINS..that is the key racist title ever given to american indians...err native americans.
I don't know, I talked to my Sioux freind "two dogs *-king" and he said the name "Fighting Sioux" didn't offend him either.[:D]
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What I would like to know is why isn't the saxon pig in here complaining about the language and why isn't ecc in here changing the spelling?
Ralph Englestad had an arena named for himself many years ago. Then shortly before he died he donated money to build two arenas with the stipulation that if the mascot and name were changed, the building would be a monument to University stupidity. The university would not be allowed to use the building and they would then have to find new funds to build a new arena.
The University; as well as the general public; was aware of these stipulations when they agreed to accept the 104 million dollars for the arena plus an additional 20 million dollars for academic scholarships plus an additional 20 million dollars for general use. UND was very happy to accept these gifts.
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No, I'm sorry to say , one of the first things napolitano did when she was elected governor was to illegally ram through a name change. It is now called Piestewa Peak after a Hopi female soldier who was killed in action when her convoy got lost and drove into an ambush.
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What the heck is a "Bonnie"?