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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
Are you suggesting that using the racial slur of "Redskin" is somehow pushing the native culture into the mainstream? Does Harvey the Hound inspire people to talk about cruelty to animals? I don't understand what you're getting at.
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to you its Racist
not to the American Indian population according to a poll when the debate on the team name was at its highest.
"in 2004, a poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania essentially confirmed the prior poll's findings, concluding that 91% of the American Indians surveyed in the 48 states on the mainland USA found the name acceptable and setting out in detail the exact wording of the questions.[63]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing...ot_controversy
Many like myself see it as glorifying the natives past. So, yes these names do put Indians into the mainstream, obviously your insulted by it and see it as a negative, I don't. If you think these names put down the native culture, go get a sign and protest in front of Western Canada High School, and demand the school change it's name the Redmen.