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Leave it to Red Lodge, Montana, a tiny spot on the mountain range that separates Montana and Wyoming, to give Dan Snyder and the other muckie-mucks (Western for rich guys) a clue.
The Red Lodge School Board takes up the issue of the high school’s mascot, the Redskins, during its Wednesday meeting. There have been moves in the past to rid the school of its mascot-name but this year the move has gained momentum so the issue will be take up formally.
Helped along: the fact that Saturday’s basketball game in the new gymnasium is to be played against Hardin High, a predominately American Indian School on the edge of the Crow Indian Reservation.
Internally, Red Lodge is largely divided between older graduates to whom the team is fondly known as “Redskins” and newer curiculates more aware of the meanings ascribed to the title. Today, American Indians are not known as Redskins, let alone by the complete old pioneer white-invented title, “pesky Redskins.”
There’s been talk around town that some title supporters might go so far as to dress up in Indian garb to attend the game!
Whatever the school board’s decision on the name, it is the first time the issue has achieved this kind of decision-making prominence. Many in Red Lodge, not to mention a few further East, would say “about time.”
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Real American| 2.4.11 @ 8:58PM
lead them where? PC-ville! someone might be offended? oh, no! get over it.
Anthony| 2.4.11 @ 9:33PM
Change the name to whiteskins, we don't care, we like the color of our skin.
jharp| 2.5.11 @ 1:09AM
"Change the name to whiteskins, we don't care, we like the color of our skin."
You are an idiot and a racist as*hole.
It has nothing to do with liking the color of one's skin.
God you people are stupid.
jharp| 2.4.11 @ 11:43PM
I read your piece three times and still am wondering what your point is past "the school board is taking up the issue".
And you "fer" or "agin" the use of "Redskins"?
I find it as equally offensive as the New York K*kes or the Detroit N******s.
Native Americans have been quite clear that it is offensive and it should be dropped.
RWinks| 2.5.11 @ 12:28PM
To jharp: I am native American. I can think of nothing more offensive than for Leftists such as yourself to label some Americans MORE native than others. As for the team name, you will note there are NO teams named K*kes or N*****s.
Team names are chosen to represent the locality or qualities of strength, courage and tenacity. No one chooses a name considered an epithet. American Indians (So named for the last 5 centuries) were always considered a worthy and dangerous foe by American settlers. It isn't the least surprising that when athletic teams were formed at the end of the Nineteenth Century many adopted names such as Indians, Braves, Redskins and various tribal names in addition to Irish, Vikings, Packers, Etc. Far from being demeaning, it was a mark of the respect for their prowess in battle.
To attempt to twist this into a derogatory epithet shows a profound misunderstanding of human nature or a malevolence toward American traditions. I suspect the latter.
Chris| 2.5.11 @ 3:50PM
Greg Easterbrook who writes the Tuesday Morning QB column for ESPN harped on the Washington Redskins name for years. He stopped once a poll came out about three years ago that most Indians don't think the name is offensive. So maybe you should get your facts straight.
Dai Alanye | 2.5.11 @ 7:12PM
William Tecumseh Sherman: That dude's parents must have been the worst kind of racists.
And how about the guy who first shouted "Geronimo" as he leaped from an airplane? Racist all the way to the ground.
Or my ancestor whose incredibly racist parents named him Osceola---they must have really hated Seminoles.
jharp is, I believe, the greatest idiot now commenting on the Spectator site. But as for the Sweat Lodge School Board, perhaps they could rename their team the "Fighting Aryans" in order to commemorate the ancient conquerors of Persia.
Red Phillips | 2.4.11 @ 11:59PM
I thought I had surfed to American Spectator, but then I saw this post and realized I had accidentally surfed to the website of the SPLC. I'm glad I saw this or I would have kept on reading thinking I was at AmSpec.
David W| 2.5.11 @ 12:08AM
Really? Have you asked? I mean asked the real Indians (sorry, Native Americans)? I know of a high school in the Texas Panhandle that uses the name of an Indian tribe for its mascot. The school, before taking the name, asked the tribe if it was okay. Not only was it okay, but members of the tribe actually came to the school to help with the naming ceremony.
Who are the ones most offended? Is it the native Americans? Or is it the liberals who claim they are watching out for the poor defenseless "children" who can't think or act for themselves. Probably the same liberals responsible for destroying black society. Where most children are raised in single parent homes, where black children are 3 or 4 grades on average behind white children, where thanks to liberal efforts blacks are now economic slaves dependent upon their Federal Government/Democratic Party masters. Hmm, did I wander off topic?
jharp| 2.5.11 @ 1:07AM
David W.
You are a racist. The color of one's skin has nothing to do with the issues you raise.
Nothing at all. You suck.
wstop| 2.5.11 @ 10:39AM
jharp, I don't think you understand David W. because without being racist, the issues he brought up have totally to do with the color of ones skin because it is factual.
son of jharp| 2.5.11 @ 8:48AM
Oh, just look at daddy throw down the race card.
JmsA| 2.5.11 @ 10:23AM
How about the Washington Snyders? I'm sure the bumbling, egomaniac team owner wouldn't have a problem with it after all the damage he's already done to that proud franchise.
LarryK| 2.5.11 @ 10:25AM
Jharp reminds me of the person that is perceived to be wise until they open their mouth.
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