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The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal in the case of whether the Washington Redskins' name is offensive, the Associated Press is reporting.
This case, led by a group of American Indians who would like to see the NFL team change their name, has been going on since the early 1990s. At least once the plaintiffs won, only to be overturned on the basis of a statute of limitations. Today's decision should finally put this particular round of legal wrangling to rest. The actual question of whether the Redskins name is racist won't ever go away, on the other hand, because it's really just awfully racist.
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Oh, please. The Supreme Court's job is to allow local governments to take away your home, elect the new president of the United States and tell men they have no rights to my uterus. And while we're on the subject, I find Dan Snyder highly offensive.
What does Dan Snyder have to do with your uterus?
He owns the naming rights.
And I can't think of a better place for an amusement park.
Steer clear of the water slide. I caught impetigo.
Wait. I thought "American Indian" was offensive. What happened with "Native American?"
And I definitely agree that the U.S. needs to get out of Wizzyliz's uterus. We're trying to lay drywall down for a den because we really need the room.
We're trying to lay drywall down for a den because we really need the room.
Well, try away, but you won't be able to because illegal immigrants have taken all the drywall business away from good, classic-rock listening, GMC-driving, red-white-and-blue-"I love the U.S.A."-bandana-toting drywall contractors. Makes you want to exercise your first amendment right to declare your intent to wrap your hands around the throat of some public official and strangle the life from them, doesn't it?
It's up to the indigenous person to decide for themselves, but I'm certainly not up for being named for Columbus's mistake.
Columbus was a barbarian.
The name is most definitely blatantly offensive. People fail to consider alternative perspectives to bring things to light. For example, would it be offensive if they were the Washington Blackskins and the helmet logo was a black dude with a skull cap on and a Newport in his mouth? Fuck yeah, that would be insanely offensive, so I think we should get over the debate and advocate for the name to be changed.
The SCOTUS decision to deny the hearing of the appeal is a terrible blow to the movement.
Amen. It's hard to believe this team name has gone on for as long as it has, and your analogy is one I use, as well.
I must disagree, at least in part. If I'm reading the AP reports correctly, the threhold question was one of timeliness. Resolving that in the negative means that there is no need to even consider the merits. The only "blow" to the movement here is one of their own doing.
As a Native American attorney let me provide some context.
1. There are NO Native American federal judges.
2. There has never been a Native American Supreme Court clerk.
3. Federal Indian law is still based on precedent that finds whites inherently racially superior to Native Americans under the doctrine of discovery.
4. Under the doctrine of laches, through which this case was declined, the Court did not decide the name wasn't racist, the plaintiffs just failed to bring their claim properly.
This is our representative democracy. So do whom do 3 million Native Americans turn to for justice?
Jesus?
But see Pmpkin, supra.
I find the New Jersey Devils sacrilegious, the New York Yankees anti-Southern, and Orlando Magic is just way retarded.
Chris Rock put it best on this issue: Having a team named the Washington Redskins is like having a team named The New York Ni**ers.
But will the court hear a case on how the team itself is offensive? (I'm writing off yesterday's win as a fluke. Snyder will be sucking it the rest of the season).
We should really consider a name that identifies DC as a city on the cutting edge of cultural trends...
How about The Washington Hipster-Douchebags
"HAIL TO THE DOUCHEBAGS! HAIL VICTORY!"
Guess each Native American has the right to allow his or her panties to be bunched, if that floats their boat. My family is part of the Cherokee Nation and I couldn't care less about the name of some football team. Never could figure out how that defined me or mysteriously degraded me. I just wish that the name "Redskins" was applied to a better team.
I think you're 0% Cherokee and 100% Troll, Mr. I've-Never-Commented-On-Any-DCist-Post-Except-For-This-One.
Any Cherokee who has read Wochester v. Georgia or US v. Cherokee Nation would never say that.
Fact: 99% of people who claim Cherokee heritage are 100% full of shit. My grandmother told me that, and she was 1/20th Cherokee on her father's side.
Yeah, I knew I would get responses like this and this is the first time I've posted on DCist. I'm 1/16th Cherokee, the last "Cherokee" in my family. After 1/16th, you're too diluted to be considered Cherokee by the USG. Yes, we have the documents. None of you can believe that there really are Native Americans out there that don't live on a res, can read, have a white collar profession, and use the internet. Nice job...
I'm sure most people don't know that the Boston Braves changed their name to the Boston Redskins in honor of William Henry "Lone Star" Dietz, who is of the Sioux Nation. The Redskins moved to Washington in 1936.
p.s. The owner changed the team's name to Redskins in honor of their new head coach Lone Star Dietz.
1/16th and you are claiming identity, and now you are playing the victim? You are a tool.
Not that I would EVER claim heritage over this, but my grandmother was half Abnaki. I guess if we're playing the blood quantum game, that means I trump you. So, stfu, fellow white man.
I suppose I would feel subject to unfair generalization if " Washington Whiteskins," whose mascot would be a xenophobic out of work drywaller with a penchant for making threats to public officials, were the name of the team.
Yeah, we've been bullied by Native Americans far too long! Musn't let them throw their weight around like this all the time. That's showing them.
And while we're at it, let's end women's suffrage! Women have suffraged long enough!