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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
What do you care about more Jiri? Honestly I bet most Americans and Canadians would want the name of a football team changed before providing better conditions for natives to live because we don't really have a vested interest in their day to day living conditions. We want to stick it to the man (Snider and the NFL). We want to show the NFL that we are evolved and cognitive of minorities because that makes us feel good about ourselves. It makes us feel evolved. Not a single native will benefit from it but lots of North Americans will feel good about it and really that's all that counts now is the majority feeling like they are do-gooders even when they aren't doing anything. At the end of the day having the Redskins name changed would be a giant headline, politicians would pat themselves on the back and the regular majority would feel good about this big positive they influenced but for the native Americans continuing their day to day lives in lousy conditions it would be a very, very small victory. But really it's not even about them anymore as it's about us as always.
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You convinced me, the real victims are Snyder and the NFL who merely want to continue years of using a racist name. The hypocrites are the people who point out that it would take approximately 1.5 billable hours for the Redskins and NFL lawyers to change the name, 1.5 billable hours too much if you ask me because those hours could be used to alleviate the living conditions of Native Americans.
It is similar to those who insisted that African Americans stop being referred to as "boy" or N*****" by white Americans. Those white do gooders made it all about themselves while the plight of the African Ameican was staring them in the face. How about helping out on that before you start on some useless crusade to change what names people are called. That cause takes 1.5 hours longer than anyone should ever spend on changing the name.