Colorado will slam schools with a $25,000/month fine for honoring Native Americans with team and mascot names. This episode was recorded just before the Cleveland Indians announced the name change to “Guardians.” As usual, Progressives offer a solution without a problem. But one man stands up.
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40 replies on “One Man Stands Up as Colorado Slams Schools with $25,000 Fine for Native American Names”
Librarians are awesome. But to get the libs confused try modifying the name to Noble Savages!
Of course, you do have The Evergreen State College Geoducks…Nothing like having a mollusk as your mascot.
When we lived in Centennial, CO our kids went to Arapahoe High School. Our county is Arapahoe County! The principal in the 1990s welcomed the Arapahoe Tribe from Wind River WY to work with the school to honor the Arapahoe Warriors. What is the status of this Blue Ribbon high school now?
The Washington Salmon! Talk about fighters. And a great time for a color change.
Native American Guardians? Is Cleveland in trouble again?
Bill missed some white team names. Viking was one, but was mentioned in the comments. Another was the Fighting Irish. For me, as part Scottish, I would love a team with the name Highlanders. Mascot in full Scottish regalia. Logo of a Scot also in full regalia, either with bagpipes or wielding a claymore sword. Heck, why not one of each? Its Highlanders, not Highlander. Of course, a claymore would be way too offensive. It’s an assault weapon! 😉Assault : make a physical attack on. Weapon: item used for create bodily harm or physical damage. In other words; all weapon are assault weapons, you idiots! They arent tickle tools.
There was a New York team called the Highlanders in the early 1900s, I think. Not sure which they became, might have been the Yankees?
That is correct. The Yankees were first called the highlanders.
Of course, nowadays a Scot would be a guy who wants cradle to grave socialism and a welfare state. 😉
As far as I am concerned, those are faux Scots. All kilts, and no claymore.
Aye, that be true
There isn’t a date on this newspaper article, I believe it is from The Brunswick Sun Times, Brunswick, Ohio. My father, Charles Fix, has the first blurb in this piece. He passed away in 1995. Apparently this has been brewing for some time. Brunswick is about 26 miles south of Cleveland. I found this just last week before the Cleveland Indians became The Cleveland Guardians. The 6 people in this article had it right. Guardians, Scmardians! Such a bunch of crud!
Is it just me, or did anyone else notice that it was “Public Funded” schools that are going to be fined? So, who is going to end up paying that fine? Just asking.
Guardians of Cleveland
the new war chant:
WE ARE GROOT!
WE ARE GROOT!
WE ARE GROOT!
*guard,—- noun. Middle English, to guard , to watch, take care, to defend, —of Germanic origin, akin to Old High German. —> Whities win!! LOL.
Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition.
Terrifying name , the Washington Bureaucrats, totally unreasoning , they tangle their victims in red tape.
Or the Swamp.
That team already exists and is the one that we are all already arrayed against.. But even though the opposing teams are 1 M bureaucrats to 330M citizens in comparative size, they are winning.
They have managed to hide outside of the real reach of “consent of the governed”. But in the final analysis, almost all of our political problems are due to our feckless (and now excessively partisan) Congress.
Back when the Ku Klux Klan was actually a thing to be concerned about — When Klansmen would attack people of other races through word or deed they gave themselves excuses for their actions that seemed reasonable and imperative to themselves as Klansmen.
The Klansmen didn’t know or didn’t care that those excuses were unsupportable.
Why is the erasure of Native American symbolism from the American Culture, which for all practical purposes puts Native Americans back into government sanctioned reservations with the ridiculous excuse “we care”, materially any different?
If anyone really did “care” they would have polled the Indians living in any state contemplating this sort of stupidity then moved according to the poll results.
But no, no one bothered to ask the Indians. If they had they may have discovered that most Indians considered themselves honored by these nods to their heritage. That they feel a bunch of people who hold their place in American society up for respect and regard a good thing*. Which would have ruined a perfectly good opportunity for empty, vain, maliciously racist virtue signaling and the Left just isn’t going to stand for that.
Clearly the CRT woke Left is the new KKK. That same mentality is back, it’s just found a new spin that allows its practitioners to feel good about their racist positions. They’re not attacking these people who they hold as inferior to them, who are so weak and stupid they cannot help themselves and need the aid of posturing, posing, racists with concerned smiles on their faces. No sir! They’re not attacking them, they’re “helping them”.
The end result is the same, KKK or CRT.
(*How do I know that a group of people would be honored and flattered in this way? I’m of Scandinavian heritage, my company logo is a stylized Draknar, a Viking Longship. I love it when I see people honoring my Viking warrior ancestors by using the names and symbiology of the people I am descended from. Even if it’s a football team that never seems to win. That’s how.
By the reasoning applied to this thing with school mascots I should be offended and harmed by anyone not Scandinavian who uses any sort of Scandinavian image. I’m not. That actually pleases me.)
I seem to recall someone did poll the natives about the Redskins name, and most of them said they did NOT want the name changed. But woke white liberals know better than you do what is best for you, you know, so they changed it anyway.
On a similar vein, the best move for the Washington Redskins would be to ditch the burgandy & gold, change the colors to Red, White, and Blue and change their name to….
The Washington Bullets
It would be a massive win on so many levels
Weren’t the Wizards the Bullets back in the day? Bullets is already a verboten name.
Correct! back in the 90s the Bullets & Capitols followed the trend of wussifying their colors by ditching the red, white and blue in gavor of teal & black. The bullets did one better by changing their un-PC name to the Wizards. Both teams were smart enough to change their colors back a few years ago, but the Wizards kept their dopey name.
The Giants and the Patriots are already red, white, and blue. I feel one more team with the same colors would be too much.
Fair point. RWB were the Bullets’ original colors & Dan Snyder would want to keep them for consistency. There would be easy color variants to differentiate, since blue is the primary colors for NY & NE. Making red the primary would be an easy way to make it work.
They could do it in blue, white and red… 😉
“blades” as in “the cutting edge” or
“bombs” as in “bursting in air” might work, too. 🙂
In fact, from our anthem, if not the Braves, perhaps “The Brave”
Use the singular term for both singular and plural phrasings, as applicable.
On the other hand, such usage might be recognized as similar to using the word “sheep”.
Remember The Fightin’ Whities? University of Northern Colorado basketball team. Unfortunately I think they discarded the title after a few years. Too bad.
It was an intramural team made up of Native Americans. They wanted to show us “how it feels.” It didn’t go as planned, as white people loved the name. They were getting requests to buy t-shirts from all over the country.
No. If you have the mascot as white it’s white power.
And all across this woken land dark clouds will blot the sun
And no more bands are left to play and children have no fun
And somewhere a chortling cancel mob raise a scalp up to the sky
But the secret heart of Cleveland knows Chief Wahoo will never die!
WAHOO LIBRE!!!
That had me laughing during both the BackStage and once again in this video. Thanks for that.
And the best Cleveland could come up w/ is “Guardians”? What a bland, meh name that’s as inspiring as warm yogurt. Isn’t there group of people that’s notable and kinda unique to Cleveland or it’s history?
They thought Mistakes on the Lake was too on point. 😉
Or The Cleveland Factory of Sadness.
When I heard about it and that they were named after a nickname of two giant statues well known in the city, I thought at least it made some sense. Also means they have a ready made template for the logo and mascots.
😉
Wouldn’t wanna honor the Native Americans by naming our local heroes after them. Progressives don’t understand that the names are aspirational, do they?
Heroes?!? Aspirational?!? Regain your senses, Goat – we’re talking lefties here. The problem is that they do understand. Anger, resentment, envy, victimhood, the more the better. But virtue, self-confidence, and positivity have no place in their agenda. Who with self-control needs their control?
I think in part it reveals the racism of those on the left, that once you have been labeled as a victim type, you owe the labelers your support for their help, whether you needed it or not and whether they actually are helping you or not (see also: blacks).
The other seems to be that once a symbol is marked as racist, it is and always shall be, unless someone on the Left decides to use it in some way beneficial to them. For example, the ok symbol of three fingers up and thumb and forefinger in a circle is white power now, when used by anyone the Left doesn’t like but completely ignored when anyone else uses it as OK, as it always has been. In the past, caricatures of indians were not always respectful, so now no representation of anything native american can be positive, no matter how much the tribe is being paid for its use (at least the Seminoles are left alone, as far as I know, but that seems to be because the tribe is so outspokenly in favor that no one can counter them).