{"id":43597,"date":"2020-07-13T17:53:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T17:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43597"},"modified":"2020-07-13T19:24:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:24:41","slug":"redskins-name-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43597","title":{"rendered":"Redskins’ name is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I want to make a couple of quick points about a pending announcement of a name change for Washington’s National Football League team.<\/p>\n

First, I’ve never really gotten all that fired up about team nicknames depicting Native Americans … except for the Redskins.<\/em><\/p>\n

Indians, Braves, Warriors, Chiefs, Black Hawks, Aztecs, Seminoles. They don’t bother me. Then again, I am of Southeast European heritage so I don’t have a particular dog in that fight, if you get my drift. About the closest name I can come up with that depicts my own heritage might be the Spartans,<\/em> which is what they call teams associated with Michigan State University and San Jose State University. It doesn’t bother me in the least. OK, I digress.<\/p>\n

The name Redskins, though, has annoyed me. I find the term to be one of those weird throwback terms you heard in 1940s Western films, when some toothless gunslinger would refer to “them redskins over yonder.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Then again, the Native Americans depicted in those films would mention doing battle with “pale faces,” or “white eyes” or whoever.<\/p>\n

The name will change. As I write these words, I do not yet know what the NFL team will call itself. I’m glad Washington’s pro football franchise is moving on from that name.<\/p>\n

As for the rest of those team nicknames, well, to be brutally candid, they don’t bother me.<\/p>\n\n

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I want to make a couple of quick points about a pending announcement of a name change for Washington’s National Football League team. First, I’ve never really gotten all that fired up about team nicknames depicting Native Americans … except for the Redskins. Indians, Braves, Warriors, Chiefs, Black Hawks, Aztecs, Seminoles. They don’t bother me. … Continue reading Redskins’ name is gone<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3218,4534],"class_list":["post-43597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-native-americans","tag-team-nicknames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43600,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43597\/revisions\/43600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}