Time for
There’s new grass on the field so baseball was full of home openers last week. That can mean only one thing - protests at
The argument for maintaining American Indian mascots for sports teams is that doing so actually honors the strength and heritage of Indians, tribes, braves, Redskins etc. If that’s the case how do the Cleveland Indians justify their buffoonish looking mascot, Chief Wahoo? Wahoo is the equivalent of the Minnesota Vikings using a caricature of Marty Feldman in a Bun Hilda wig and horned helmet for their mascot – except for one thing, white people don’t give a $h!t about such things and would probably wear it with pride.
That is a truism. Years ago when the NCAA forced colleges to give up their Indian mascots some bright college kids at The University of Northern Colorado, in what was supposed to be a poke in white people’s eye, named their intramural basketball team the “Fightin’ Whites”. They went so far as to have t-shirts with a Ward Cleaver 1950s looking guy in a coat and tie over the tag line “Everything is going to be all white”. The whole thing blew up in their faces. No one gave a $h!t. In fact it had the opposite effect it was intended to have. The shirts were a big hit on campus and are now an Internet sensation. White people don’t give a $h!t. That little fact infuriates people trying to mock us.
Need more evidence? Consider the following - the Fighting Irish, Vikings, Patriots, Browns, 49ers, Minutemen, Cowboys, Boilermakers, Mountaineers etc. none of which has whites, Irishmen for example, protesting outside ND stadium or any other stadium. The only people protesting a white mascot ironically are black people protesting the cartoonish rebel and Confederate flag at Ol’ Miss .
This whole thing reminds me of Jack. See that’s how this page works. Things just pop up and off we go. Jack was a barber outside the gate at
I visited Jack because he was truly a character and because there was a special ambiance to Jack’s shop where among other things hung a hand written sign proudly stating “NO RATTAILS!” back when those things were popular. Jack had stuff in his shop on display that could never be put up in a government owned building.
Well one afternoon I’m in the chair in the middle of a cut and the door bursts open. A guy holding a bent and faded “Redman Chewing Tobacco” sign says to Jack, “You see this? I ripped this off the wall over at XXXX because I thought it would be offensive to you.” See, Jack was a descendant of one of the western Indian tribes. Jack looked at it; stopped in mid cut; put down his cigarette; went into the back of the shop; returned a minute later with a hammer and some nails; took the sign from the man; and nailed it to one of the last pieces of real estate on a wall not already covered with some artifact or photo. Then he looked over at the man and said, “Hell, I don’t give a shit.” The older I get the more that sentiment applies to things.
Different days brother. Different days. I recommended Jack to a friend who was returning to
Soccer summed up in one line
For Lex, the sport of soccer was summed up in a single line on an episode of The Simpsons. Homer gets a gig as a soccer official during the World Cup. During a game the play-by-play announcer says, “
Ted Cruz Tweeted an interesting take on Robertscare:
That got me to thinking:
Why did GM and Chrysler sales increase?
Pretend the government got into the car business by
bailing out two of the three automakers in America
Then the government buys up all of the reliable late
model cars in program we’ll call “cash for clunkers.”
BAM! The
government declares its crony capitalistic intervention into the car business a
huge success.
Oh, but never mind that the two still owe Uncle Sam
billions of dollars on the money he (we) loaned them.
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From the Griffin....
Speaking about pro hockey teams, it appears Columbus may have a problem.
"Blue Jacket was a leader of the Shawnee natives. The date of his birth is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1740s. His Native American name was Weyapiersenwah (also spelled Wehyehpiherhsehnwah). Historians know very little of his early years. In 1774, Blue Jacket participated in Lord Dunmore's War. In this conflict, militiamen from Pennsylvania and Virginia hoped to force the Ohio Country natives to accept the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768) and leave much of what is now the State of Ohio."
I recall when suggestions for a team name were being taken here in Columbus and Blue Jackets was selected. The thinking was why this name? Personally I liked Columbus Navigators. Everyone could have dressed liked Columbo. But Blue Jacket was picked up as a tribute to native Americans from Ohio. Blue Jacket was a Shawnee leader that apparently had his butt kicked at every battle. So this is even more mystifying. Regardless, the latest being heard around Columbus now is that Blue Jacket refers to our Union men fighting in the US civil war. I take exception though as the hockey loses more games than it wins, just like the Shawnee leader. So now we have a team name that 1 in 20 people know where it actually came from. I still don't get naming a hockey team the Maple Leafs either. WTF? So I would like to propose this approach to the Red Skins and claim they were named after the potato. Semi Knolls would be half a hill. The Black Hawks would dark colored birds of prey, and the Utah Utes would be the Brooklyn dialect for youths (reference My Cousin Vinny). Can't we all just get along? Hmmm?
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