Originally Posted by
godwulf
Who even says "redskins" in a derogatory way, outside of an old western film from the '40s? In the Red Mesa Unified School District in northeastern Arizona, they have a football team called the "Redskins", and the superintendant, a member of the Navajo nation, defends the name and has no plans to change it. The idea that a huge number of Indians - and no, they don't prefer "Native American", polls and studies have shown - are offended is just wrong. I have an acquaintance in New Mexico, half-Indian himself, who recently broached the subject to the tribal leadership in his area, and the concensus among them was that the current "Redskins" controversy is silly and a big joke.
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