HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!

There has been a lot of talk and consternation lately about the Washington Redskins changing their name.

Apparently, many people are offended by the name “Redskins”. They say it is an affront to all Native Americans. They say it is a put down to this race of proud people. They say it has no place in American sports culture–to have a name so offensive, that it makes fun of the color of a race of people’s skin.

The problem is, it is not American Indians who are saying all of this.

Yeah, as usual, it is a group of leftist, democrat leaning, tree-hugging people, who have so much time on their hands that they feel the need to be the arbitors of everything that everyone should be offended by.

A recent poll that I was reading online pointed out that 90% of natives, IE: American Indians, are not bothered or offended by the nickname “Redskins”, when it comes to the NFL team in the nation’s capitol. I would say that’s about right. So, if one in ten people in an entire race are offended by a football team’s name, is that enough to have that team be forced to change it? I say “No friggin way”!

The way I see it, people need to get a grip nowadays. Someone is going to be offended by nearly everything we do today in society. I may offend someone tomorrow by the way I pull a paper towel out of the holder in a public restroom and wipe my hands and toss the paper in a wastebasket. Someone may think to themselves, “why, that heathen just dried his hands RIGHT OVER THE SINK! He then finished the job by WIPING HIS HANDS ON HIS PANTS!!! I think he was raised by wolves!!!” The point is, people need to get used to being offended.

I am German. 100% born and bred. Both parents and grandparents are German. I am about as “purebred” as an American can get. If someone called me a “kraut”, “heinie” or a “squarehead”, it would probably make me laugh. I wouldn’t be in the slightest bit offended. Still, there are probably about ten percent of Germans who would be. Are we to have to kowtow to the small minority who are offended in each of these instances? No, especially when there is such a rich tradition already in place here.

The Washington Redskins have been the Redskins since the inception of the team in the 1920’s. The term “redskin” has as much positive connotations as negative in this case. Redskins are warriors/ Battle-hardened, pround Native Americans. You want to be offended by something? Be offended by what the white men did to the Indians. It’s too late to “pay them back” for the atrocities of our ancestors by righteously getting rid of the name “Redskins”.

It’s just so typical of the political correctness that has run amok in this country. If anyone knows about this, it’s me.

I made a comment about how the proliferation of Asian golfers was hurting the LPGA tour. I made fun of how the LPGA leaderboards sound like the sound you hear when you bang pots and pans together. THAT was in poor taste and I realize that could have offended a number of people, but my initial point had merit in a non racially biased way. I was simply saying that it is bad business for an AMERICAN based tour to have too many good golfers from a specific group that is not American. I was fired because of it. Now whenever I tell my story about what happened to anyone I meet, the most common refrain is “What? You have got to be kidding! What you said is true!” However, because a very small portion of people were offended, I was crucified and fired.

There are so many things that we all know or believe about our society, but nobody can say anything about them. If anyone does, then God forbid, that person becomes an immediate pariah. Why? Just because they stated a truth that we all know but no one can talk about. We have turned into a nation of censorship. So much for free speech; it doesn’t exist anymore.

That brings us back to the Washington Redskins.

Should they be forced to change their football team’s name? No way! If they have to though, I have a perfect idea for a replacement name. How about the Washington Hypocrites.

For a bunch of politicians who say how Obamacare is the best thing since sliced bread, but don’t have to actually enroll in it like the rest of us, it would be PERFECT!