Surprise: Forthcoming Redskins Name Change Is Just A Start

When you give in to SJWs they won’t stop. They’ll keep demanding more

Native Americans say Washington’s name change ‘signals the beginning’ of further reckoning

It was more than a sports logo, it was a symbol.

On Monday, Washington’s NFL team announced that it would change its nickname and logo, which has been long been decried as racist and dehumanizing by Native American advocates. Owner Dan Snyder had previously vowed that he would “never” change the name — but that was before demonstrators across the United States and beyond took to the streets after the death of George Floyd to protest systemic racism. (snip)

Change has been the operative word in tribal communities of late: The Supreme Court ruled on July 9 that a large swath of eastern Oklahoma remains a Native American reservation based on a treaty signed with the Creek Nation in the 19th Century. This month, there have also been legal victories for Native environmental activists in their attempts to block two major oil pipelines. Statues of Christopher Columbus, whose arrival in the New World heralded the conquest and mass murder in the eyes of many Indigenous Americans, have been toppled in several states. (big snip to near the end)

Dunbar-Ortiz said she hoped that the unprecedented momentum would continue — including serious reflection over the cultural appropriation in other Native American-derived nicknames in pro and college sports, such as MLB’s Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians, the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs and the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.

“None of those names are Native terms. They’re made up colonial terms,” she said. “They’re not honoring Native people.”

For the first time in memory, the drumbeat for change is not falling on deaf ears.

Being in the South, there are plenty of Braves fans around here, and they think they are safe. They shouldn’t. I know a small number of Blackhawks and Chiefs fans, they think the same. They shouldn’t. It never ends. Heck, they’ll probably come after the use of Washington.

And, hey, while we’re at it, let’s look at place names, too! (via Hot Air)

Don’t Stop at Statues. Demand a Reconsideration of Place Names Too

The name Bixby had become so common in my area that we didn’t think about where it came from. That’s why we tear down, rename and rethink. We do it to tell the whole story, not just the parts that make us feel good. Perhaps we need to do this not just for statues and monuments and schools and sports teams but for cities and counties too. Perhaps we should begin again with the full weight of history upon which we stand.

It’s not just Bixby, of course. In Oklahoma, Jackson County is named for Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, while Roger Mills County is named for Roger Q. Mills, a U.S. senator who served in the Confederate Army and had ties to the Ku Klux Klan. I’ve driven through both of them without even thinking about the origins of their names. Likewise, Stephens County, Texas, was named after Alexander Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederate States, and his boss, Jefferson Davis, has counties named in Texas, Georgia and Mississippi as well as a parish in Louisiana. People who marginalized and oppressed didn’t just affect those who lived at the time–Bixby’s actions, along with so many others’, caused the Creek Nation to lose the jurisdictional power they just, in part, won back–and the places that bear their names should no longer remain without scrutiny.

It never ends, does it. Funny how these SJWs never mention all the things named after Robert “KKK” Byrd. Or that the Democratic Party is the party of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation, as well as having heavily anti-Chinese things in their party platforms back in the late 1800’s through early 1900’s.