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Originally Posted by Hog1
School board votes to keep name Wellpinit Redskins | Spokane/E. WA - KXLY.com
“To me it's a proud name and any school that uses Redskins as their mascot makes me feel proud,” Wellpinit resident Celia Stearns said.
“We decided last night that we weren't going to change it. Talking to a lot of community members, the majority of the community don't want it changed,” Williams said, adding there is too much pride in being a mighty Redskin that he wouldn't want to be one to take that away.
“I think it would be more demeaning to them if we made them change it, in fact I wouldn't want to be on the board if we tried to make them change the name Redskins."
As Thom and Kevin point out.......is ALL this just another example of the Great White Father doing whats best for the lowly incompetent Indian who cannot manage their own lives?
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So the Amanda Blackhorse challenge is calling a Native American Redskin to their face. There should be a similar challenge to call Native Americans like the Wellpinit residents Racists or at least ignorant to their faces.
There's also another quote in the article acknowledging that Redskin may have been used as a pejorative in the "Wild Wild West days", but is not used today.
I've seen that argument in other articles about NA school districts who vehemently support the use of Redskin as their team name. They say the word in any other context other than the name of a sports team is obsolete. Kind of how most dictionaries define the word 'Yankee' as "sometimes offensive", but it's been largely redefined to mean the baseball team in NYC. It's kind of corny to use the word Yankee as an insult today, but at one point in time it wasn't.